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Michigan Democrats vote to repeal anti-union law, this week in the war on workers
This is big: During the 2012 lame-duck session, Michigan Republicans passed a so-called right-to-work (RTW) law that then-Gov. Rick Snyder had explicitly said wasn't on his agenda . Since that ...
More Virginia school districts to allow collective bargaining, this week in the war on workers
There’s a great new trend in Virginia school districts. In 2020, the state legalized collective bargaining for public workers, but made it a decision at the local government level. This week, b...
Michigan Democrats are putting the slogan 'elections matter' into action and it's amazing to see
UPDATE: Thursday, Mar 9, 2023 · 2:54:02 AM +00:00 · Laura Clawson The Michigan House voted to repeal right to work and to reinstate the prevailing wage law. Michigan Democrats are s...
Biden to nominate Julie Su as labor secretary, this week in the war on workers
UPDATE: Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023 · 6:43:12 PM +00:00 · Laura Clawson Presiden Joe Biden will nominate Julie Su , the current deputy labor secretary. If she’s confirmed, she’ll be Biden’...
Crew tried to stop train before toxic derailment, NTSB preliminary report says
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report on the Ohio freight train derailment involving thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals, and the (preliminary) con...
Tesla fired dozens of workers in Buffalo plant the day after union campaign launch
Like freakin’ clockwork. It took one day between a group of Buffalo Tesla workers informing the company of their intent to unionize and Tesla firing more than 30 workers in that plant, includi...
Buffalo Tesla workers announce union drive as Musk force-feeds Twitter users with his tweets
Workers at a Buffalo, New York, Tesla factory are seeking to form the company’s first union after previous organizing efforts have run up against union-busting that in some cases came persona...
Biden has an obvious best choice to replace Marty Walsh as labor secretary
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is expected to step down in the coming days to take a job leading the National Hockey League Players Association, and while that’s not official yet, the jockeying to...
Illegal union-busting is outrageously common, this week in the war on workers
Tens of millions of people who would like to be in a union aren’t. So what gives? This: Management is alleged to break the law (labor law, so it’s treated as if it really doesn’t count) i...
There's a good reason restaurants are struggling to find workers
A Mexican restaurant in Oakland, California, is closing because it can't find enough workers . A Las Vegas restaurant needs 12 people to be fully staffed but is struggling to get by with just t...
This is what it looks like to live in a country where work really isn't valued
A journalism professor’s recent tweet highlighted the shockingly low salaries in the local television news industry—by issuing a challenge to local TV stations to pay better than a local fas...
Big money blocks California law to improve fast food jobs, this week in the war on workers
In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law to create a council with the authority to set wages and policies around working conditions in the fast food industry. That would h...
In the age of the 'Shein haul,' how much should a shirt cost?
Fast fashion giant Shein’s valuation has dropped by about one-third , from $100 billion to $64 billion, according to reports last week, as the company raises funding and prepares to go public....
Union membership ticked up in 2022 but union-busting takes a toll, this week in the war on workers
The number of workers represented by a union rose by 200,000 in 2022, but the overall share of workers represented by a union dropped from 11.6% to 11.3%, according to an Economic Policy Institut...
Restaurant lobby group has siphoned off $25 million from workers to support its anti-worker efforts
Millions of restaurant workers have been forced without their knowledge to subsidize an organization that exists in part to keep their pay low, The New York Times reports. (Every now and then...
If your job title is something like 'carpet shampoo manager,' it's a red flag for wage theft
Managerial workers earning more than a ridiculously low $455 a week are exempt from overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours a week—and employers are going to great lengths to exploit that ...
Employment lawyer's text to a former coworker draws enough outrage to get him fired
An Ohio law firm came under fire this week after it put on a display of how new parents are too often treated when they dare to take parental leave. A text from a senior attorney at Zashin and R...
Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest and his future are labor issues, this week in the war on workers
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is now breathing on his own and talking as he recovers from his on-field cardiac arrest in Monday night’s NFL game, but the issues his near-death and ongoing r...
'We're doubling down,' Starbucks workers say as they launch strike, this week in the war on workers
On Friday, Starbucks workers started a three-day strike at as many as 100 stores, following a one-day, 110-store walkout last month. The workers are protesting the closure of some stores that ...
Amazon warehouse where six workers died is being rebuilt without a storm shelter
Six people were killed last December when a tornado hit an Amazon warehouse, causing part of the building to collapse. Now, a year later, the warehouse is almost rebuilt … and it won't have a...
Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks gift cards, this week in the war on workers
Starbucks workers have been winning union elections for a year this week, and in that time more than 250 stores have unionized and more stores continue to file for union elections—but the com...
Hundreds of authors support striking HarperCollins workers, but management isn't listening
About 250 workers at HarperCollins have been on strike since Nov. 10 , and while the publisher is not budging on its refusal to come to a deal—with workers calling on their employer to increa...
Union door-knocking for Fetterman and Shapiro helped 99 Philadelphia workers get union jobs
Democratic candidates in key battleground states benefited from a massive ground game by UNITE HERE, the hotel and hospitality workers union, which knocked 2.7 million doors in Arizona, Nevada, ...
Some wins and some losses on labor-related ballot measures, this week in the war on workers
They weren’t mostly the highest-profile things on the ballot on Tuesday, but this year’s elections did include a number of ballot measures relevant to workers. The outcomes were a mixed bag. ...
University of California academic workers vote to strike, this week in the war on workers
More than 35,000 academic workers at the University of California voted to strike in what would be the largest strike of this year and the largest academic strike ever in the United States if i...
Layoffs, a lawsuit, and 'a massive drop in revenue': Musk's Twitter takeover is going well
Things are wild over at Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. The company is laying off up to half of its workforce , which would amount to around 3,700 people. ...
A big change just hit job listings in New York City
Starting on Nov. 1, employers in New York City are required to list salary ranges in job ads . It’s another move toward equal pay, as well as helping job applicants know that they’re not w...
Starbucks/Amazon combo workers file for union election, this week in the war on workers
Starbucks and Amazon are experimenting with a joint venture: combined Starbucks/Amazon stores. And the workers at the second such store to open are seeking to unionize . “We’re unionizing ...
Amazon reminds drivers not to be 'surprised by our four-legged customers' after fatal mauling
On Monday, an Amazon delivery driver was found dead in a Missouri yard with two aggressive dogs in it and injuries consistent with an animal attack. “We can tell by looking at the victim's body...
Striking Starbucks workers say management is ignoring a bed bug infestation
Workers at Starbucks’ NYC Reserve Roastery went on strike Tuesday and Wednesday over some disturbing conditions in the store. They say a moldy ice machine hasn’t been fixed and, more recently...
Teachers in two Massachusetts cities strike, this week in the war on workers
Teachers in Haverhill, Massachusetts, went on strike this week, defying a state law banning teachers and other public sector workers from striking, and incurring significant fines. Union leaders ...
What's the truth behind that 'pizza motivates employees more than cash bonuses' headline?
Pizza motivates workers more than cash, according to a headline that’s been making the rounds—in disbelief, not agreement—on social media. So what’s going on with this? Who would say tha...
California is right: When bosses steal pay from workers, it should be a felony
Thirty-one California workers will get more than $216,000 in overtime pay they earned but were cheated out of by their employer. But the Labor Department’s investigation and action against the...
Amazon loses $8 billion a year because it treats workers too badly to keep them on the job
Amazon seems to be pushing toward a future in which every American has worked for the company … and hated it. According to leaked documents obtained by Engadget , attrition is costing Amazon ...
Restaurants keep complaining they can’t find workers. Maybe this is why
Owners of restaurants, coffee shops, and the like are often at the front of the line to complain about how Nobody Wants To Work These Days. No doubt coincidentally, they often provide some of t...
GOP donors want to keep San Diego labor standards in the toilet, this week in the war on workers
San Diego voters have the chance to shed one of the last vestiges of the city’s Republican anti-union past this November, with a ballot measure repealing a 2012 ban on project labor agreements....
The 'signs from employers angry about paying workers' genre gets a new entry
The passive-aggressive sign about how hard it is to be a business expected to treat workers with basic decency is an increasingly common genre, or at least one getting a new audience thanks to so...
Even a pandemic didn't get paid sick days for most low-wage workers, this week in the war on workers
More than two years into the pandemic (still not over, President Biden!), there have been nearly 100 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States. In the early part of the pandemic, some worke...
Minnesota nurses strike and Seattle teachers end a strike, this week in the war on workers
Nurses at 15 Minnesota hospitals went on strike for three days this week to let management know they are serious about the issues they’re raising at the bargaining table. In addition to wage...
Early reports suggest tentative deal to avert rail strike is a win for workers
President Joe Biden released a statement early Thursday morning announcing a tentative deal to avert a freight rail strike that could have seriously damaged the economy. The final sticking po...
Freight rail workers may strike over bosses' outrageous scheduling demands
Tens of thousands of freight railroad workers could go on strike after a 30-day cooldown period ends on Friday. President Joe Biden and Cabinet officials are pushing for a deal to prevent the...
Minor League Baseball players seek to unionize, this week in the war on workers
While a few baseball players make headline-grabbing amounts of money, 40% of MLB players make the league minimum of $570,000 during careers that average just four years, and during which many spe...
Senate Democrats could notch two more big accomplishments before November
Democrats have managed to do a surprising amount with the thinnest possible majority in the Senate—but there’s more they can and must do before the midterm elections, bills already passed in ...
Unions build power and fight inequality for all workers
This Labor Day, let’s remember a few things, starting with one big one: If every eligible worker in the United States were part of a union, the nation would be a much more equal, healthy place....
Public approval of unions hits highest point since 1965 ... again
Public support for unions is at its highest level since 1965 , according to Gallup’s annual pre-Labor Day survey. And if that headline sounds familiar, it’s because last year Gallup also f...
Labor board charges Starbucks with another big labor law violation, this week in the war on workers
The National Labor Relations Board has issued yet another complaint against Starbucks for breaking labor laws as it attempts to break its workers’ will to organize and fight for better working...
Teachers in your state are underpaid. The question is by how much, this week in the war on workers
Teachers have earned less than other workers with the same education levels for decades—but it’s getting worse. “On average, teachers earned just 76.5 cents on the dollar compared with what...
Starbucks illegally fired Memphis union activists, judge says
After an extended blizzard of firing workers in obvious retaliation for their union activism, Starbucks has run up against a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman ordered Starbucks t...
Chuck Schumer must make the Senate vote on protections for pregnant workers, before it's too late
Senate Democrats have been getting stuff done for a change, using reconciliation to get the Inflation Reduction Act past unified Republican opposition and passing bipartisan bills to provide care...
Viral video shows the reality of Starbucks' union-busting campaign, this week in the war on workers
There are now 221 Starbucks stores where workers have voted to unionize —but the company has only engaged in first bargaining sessions at three of them. Meanwhile, the National Labor Relations...