Alexander W. Miller is a student at Harvard Law School.
With more reporting on Brexit, the Los Angeles Times explores the potential effect of the referendum on the world’s poorest workers. Noting possible reductions in development aid and increased impediments to trade, the Times speculates that African farmers could be among the most affected because of the key role that the United Kingdom had played in promoting their access to the European market.
Turning to the more immediate effects of Brexit, Janet Daley of The Telegraph calls for civility and increased dialogue on questions of migration and worker movement. Criticizing the reticence of prominent politicians to address these key drivers of the Leave vote, she suggests that the developing crisis among the movement’s leadership may be attributable to the lack of a clear solution to the foundational economic dislocations felt across Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union.
In American labor news, last week the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Home Care Association of America v. Weil. The case was a challenge by home care providers to Labor Department regulations designed to bring their workers under the aegis of minimum wage and overtime pay protections. Today the New York Times editorial board reflects on efforts by the Obama administration and 21 states to expand protections for the primarily female, mostly minority home care workforce, urging further action.
Years of labor unrest at the Trump Taj Mahal casino and hotel boiled over Friday morning, with more than 1,000 employees going on strike after contract negotiations failed to produce a new agreement. With the walkout entering its second day, union spokesperson Diana Hussein described cuts in wages and benefits of more than a third over the past few years, and stated that the workers were inspired by the success of the recent Verizon strike.
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July 14
More circuits weigh in on two-step certification; Uber challengers Seattle deactivation ordinance.
July 13
APWU and USPS ratify a new contract, ICE barred from racial profiling in Los Angeles, and the fight continues over the dismantling of NIOSH
July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
the Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings; Secretary of Agriculture suggests Medicaid recipients replace deported migrant farmworkers; DHS ends TPS for Nicaragua and Honduras
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]