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Today’s News & Commentary — November 6, 2015
Now that the UAW has negotiated a contract with General Motors, leaders are pushing members to vote yes. Voting began late last week, and although workers at four assembly plants and a number of...
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 10, 2015
Today is a big day for the Fight for $15 movement. USA Today reports that fast-food workers in 270 cities will walk out at 6 a.m. in the largest organized demonstration yet. Workers will then...
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 13, 2015
The Wall Street Journal reports that General Motors, which has recently agreed to a new contract with the UAW Union (UAW) that will drive up its labor costs, plans to begin importing and selling...
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 19, 2015
The vote is neck and neck on the proposed four-year contract between Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers. Slightly more than half of Ford’s union members who voted so far have rejected...
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 25, 2015
A group of Disney workers is filing a complaint against Disney, alleging national origin and age discrimination, Politico reports. Earlier this year, Disney announced its plans to fire about 250...
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Today’s News & Commentary — December 8, 2015
Donald Trump has lost at least one election. The Huffington Post reports that a majority of employees at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas have voted to unionize. The election took place...
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The VW Chattanooga Union Win is Democracy at Work
The 71 percent majority vote of the skilled maintenance workers at VW’s Chattanooga plant to elect the United Auto Workers is an important test of whether critics of the labor law model of exclusive...
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Today’s News & Commentary — December 11, 2015
The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the growing debate over whether the gig economy necesitates the creation of a new “independent worker” category of employees. This argument was most recently...
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Today’s News & Commentary — December 23, 2015
Christmas just got merrier for the 37 truck drivers awarded $7 million in back pay. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office ruled that a port trucking firm in Carson, Cal. had misclassified the...
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Today’s News & Commentary — February 11, 2016
Teachers in Los Angeles have voted to raise their membership dues, according to the Los Angeles Times. Union leaders explain the 30% increase in dues is needed to fight well-funded and non-union...
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Today’s News & Commentary — September 27, 2016
Last night’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump featured discussions of jobs, labor and other topics related to labor and employment law. CNN has a general summary, while...
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Today’s News & Commentary — October 19, 2016
On Tuesday, Harvard University and the Harvard Graduate Student Union–United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) signed an agreement on election terms for eligible students to vote on unionization. An email sent...
View ArticleToday’s News & Commentary — July 13, 2017
The United Auto Workers announced Tuesday that employees at a Nissan plant in Mississippi have filed a petition for a union election. The New York Times reports that the U.A.W. has been working to...
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Workers at the Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi should have a big decision to make within the next couple of weeks – whether they want to be represented by the UAW and start a new chapter in...
View ArticleToday’s News & Commentary — August 3, 2017
According to the Washington Examiner, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi will vote today on whether or not they should join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. Nearly 4,000 workers will be...
View ArticleUAW Loss at Nissan
Workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi voted “overwhelmingly” against representation by the United Auto Workers last week. The loss marks a very disappointing outcome to a years-long...
View ArticleToday’s News & Commentary — February 16, 2018
Yesterday, the Senate rejected a White House immigration proposal that would have increased border security, placed new limits on legal migration like family-based immigration and the diversity visa...
View ArticleToday’s News & Commentary — May 23, 2018
The Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, NLRB v. Murphy Oil, and Ernst & Young, LLP v. Morris continued to generate reactions on Tuesday. David Leonhardt explained in The New...
View ArticleToday’s News & Commentary — July 20, 2018
For the discriminatory loss of early retirement benefits, the New York State Nurses Association has won a $20.8 million-dollar settlement from New York City. The city repeatedly denied requests from...
View ArticleToday’s News & Commentary — January 25, 2019
This year Google employees have organized protests against the tech giant, taking aim at the company’s use of forced arbitration agreements and its work with the military. Unsurprisingly the...
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