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February 11, 2024
News & Commentary

Gilbert Placeres

California Fast Food Workers Union launched; NLRB GC Jennifer Abruzzo describes plans for 2024; Florida public sector unions decertified.

February 3, 2023
News & Commentary

Greg Volynsky

New Jersey advances a temp worker rights bill; Johns Hopkins doctoral students join a wave of unionized graduate students; canvassers systematically misrepresented a petition for a veto referendum on the California fast food workers bill; and strikes continue in the UK

September 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s News and Commentary: a court ruling threatens employee access to HIV-prevention, restaurant owners push back against a new California law, railway labor contract negotiations, baseball players join the AFL-CIO, and a tragic anniversary for workers in Pakistan. A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) process for determining […]

September 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

After an exciting labor day weekend, there is still much good news to celebrate! An article in the Hill pointed out yesterday that this Labor Day weekend was perhaps “the most promising” for unions in many years, because of very high public support, dynamic grassroots organizing campaigns at several massive corporations, and a President who […]

August 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

In California, AB 257—a bill that could nudge the U.S. labor market closer to a form of sectoral bargaining—is inching toward becoming law. The bill, which is advancing through the state legislature, has two components. First, it would dramatically alter the franchise model by making corporate franchisors—such as McDonald’s—automatically liable for their franchisees’ violations of […]

August 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: The FAST Act makes its way to the California Senate Floor; New York companies face billions in lawsuits for paying workers once every two weeks instead of weekly. Yesterday, California’s Senate Appropriations Committee passed AB 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, progressing the bill to a […]

January 17, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The continued shortage of rapid antigen tests and PCR test appointments is hitting people who cannot work remotely especially hard, NPR-affiliate KQED reports. Many are put in an impossible situation: find a test or give up a paycheck you can’t afford to miss. And, like every other aspect of this pandemic, the racial and economic […]

June 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

An unprecedent heat wave continues to scorch the West Coast, and employers in the agricultural industry have been scrambling to harvest their fields before crops wither in the blistering heat. As a result, the region’s agricultural laborers—who already find themselves subjected to highly exploitative conditions—have been pushed even harder in recent days. Thousands of fruit […]

June 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

This morning, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May jobs report. It determined that 559,000 jobs were created or restored in May—around double that of April—and the unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage points to 5.8 percent. Labor force participation showed little change, and some of the fall in the unemployment rate is […]

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