Edward Nasser is a student at Harvard Law School.
President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to appoint two employer-friendly nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.The Board currently has a 2-1 Democratic majority with two empty seats. A new board might revisit many consequential decisions over the past 8 years, including the Board’s rejection of class-action waivers in employment arbitration and allowance of student unionization on college campuses, among others.
Wal-Mart is warning its employees not to download an app created by an organization seeking higher pay and benefits for its employees. Wal-Mart is telling employees that the app, designed by OUR WalMart, is a scheme to gather workers’ personal information. The app uses IBM’s artificial intelligence bot, Watson, and information fed to it by so-called peer experts to answer worker’s questions about the company’s policies and employees’ workplace rights
Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, and Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, have extended olive branches to Mr. Trump. Both expressed optimism that they will be able to work with the incoming administration to find common ground, especially on infrastructure spending and transportation. Mayor de Blasio, who recently received endorsements from two unions in his bid for reelection, has been called “the worst mayor in city history” by Mr. Trump. After the most acrimonious election in history, Democrats in state and local governments will need to grapple with the question of whether and to what extent to cooperate with the Trump administration.
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March 12
EPA terminates contract with second-largest union; Florida advances bill restricting public sector unions; Trump administration seeks Supreme Court assistance in TPS termination.
March 11
The partial government shutdown results in TSA agents losing their first full paycheck; the Fifth Circuit upholds the certification of a class of former United Airline workers who were placed on unpaid leave for declining to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons during the pandemic; and an academic group files a lawsuit against the State Department over a policy that revokes and denies visas to noncitizens for their work in fact-checking and content moderation.
March 10
Court rules Kari Lake unlawfully led USAGM, voiding mass layoffs; Florida Senate passes bill tightening union recertification rules; Fifth Circuit revives whistleblower suit against Lockheed Martin.
March 9
6th Circuit rejects Cemex, Board may overrule precedents with two members.
March 8
In today’s news and commentary, a weak jobs report, the NIH decides it will no longer recognize a research fellows’ union, and WNBA contract talks continue to stall as season approaches. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that employers cut 92,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.4 percent. A loss […]
March 6
The Harvard Graduate Students Union announces a strike authorization vote.