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December 12, 2021

Kevin Vazquez

Kevin Vazquez is a student at Harvard Law School.

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Daily News & Commentary

Start your day with our roundup of the latest labor developments. See all

January 27

Judge rules firing of Whole Foods workers for wearing BLM masks legal; judge stands by order enforcing subpoenas against Starbucks Workers United; Fourth Circuit skeptical of UPS worker's ADA accommodation claim.

January 26

CA law to improve wages and conditions for fast food workers faces a ballot referendum; OK meat processing workers reeling after a coworker is killed by police onsite; Democrats and advocates urge stronger child labor protection; new report on wage theft

January 25

In today’s news and commentary, Biden renominates his pick for head of the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division; Walmart announces wage hike; Sanders plans Starbucks hearings as incoming chairman of the Senate HELP Committee; organizing efforts continue in the gaming industry; Amazon fires another union activist; and Harvard Law School launches the Center for Labor […]

January 24

HLS launches the new Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Lawmakers address construction worker deaths, and Local Progress publishes the local government round up on workers' rights.

January 23

Cooling labor market, Amazon investigations, and tech layoffs.

January 22

As Bloomberg detailed on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, next in line to chair the powerful Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), has not given up on last year’s struggle to secure sick leave for railway workers. According to Bloomberg, Sanders is quietly planning to introduce legislation in the coming months that would require rail carriers […]

OnLabor In The News

The New Republic

Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.: Prof. Block on how employers' refusal to bargain harms the labor movement

Talking Points Memo

Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize: Prof. Sachs on how though "policies in Washington have made it very difficult for workers to organize; at the moment, workers are defying those fierce headwinds."

SHRM

A Beneficial Union: Prof. Sachs on how employers can benefit from unions, explaining how unions "open up a new line of communication between management and workers" and how voluntary recognition "can be faster and less acrimonious" than using the NLRB process

Bloomberg

Apple to Withhold Latest Employee Perks From Unionized Store: Prof. Sachs explains why employers like Apple and Starbucks are wrong when they say they can't offer union workers the same perks that they're extending to nonunion employees.

The American Prospect

Laws That Create Countervailing Power: A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, Steve Kest, and Robert Kuttner.

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