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- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill
Today’s News & Commentary — July 16, 2021
Today, U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman from New York is introducing a “Green New Deal for Public Schools” which would fund 1.3 million jobs a year by hiring and training more teachers and reducing student-to-staff ratios. It would also direct more money to schools with high rates of poverty, increase social services for students (including psychologists and counsellors), and invest hundreds of billions of dollars in sustainable infrastructure in the public school system over the next ten years, among other proposals. “We are in ongoing negotiation and communication with leadership to ensure that provisions of this bill are included in reconciliation,” Bowman said.
A federal district court held that Biden’s firing of former NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, a Trump labor appointee, is permissible under the NLRA. The court’s decision was in accord with legal analysis offered previously on this blog: while Board members are subject to for-cause removal under Section 3(a) of the NLRA, the General Counsel—who is clearly not a Board member—is not and can be removed at will by the President.
With the CDC Moratorium ending on July 31st, millions of Americans who are currently behind on their rent could be at risk for eviction. The Biden administration has issued statements with suggestions for state and local governments, including on the disbursement of $46 million in rental relief, as well as recommendations to state courts aimed at avoiding evictions.
In a memo released Wednesday, an NLRB attorney recommended that the Board dismiss the claims of the Methodist Hospital of Southern California that two unions violated the NLRA by failing to provide notice before allegedly picketing the hospital. The memo concluded that a demonstration that did not block access to the hospital and did not force members of the public to interact with demonstrators did not count as picketing, and thus did not require notice to the employer under the NLRA. “The mere fact that demonstrators stood close to a hospital driveway and pedestrian walkway does not establish picketing under current board law,” the memo articulated. The Methodist Hospital has withdrawn their charges.
On Thursday, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer filed for cloture on the Senate’s confirmation of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. The Senate could vote on her nomination in the coming week. Abruzzo’s nomination is supported by the AFL-CIO. Abruzzo would also be the first woman to serve as the Board’s top lawyer.
The House’s Appropriations Bill for 2022 calls for the phasing out of unpaid internships within the State Department over the next three years, and includes $10 million for the State Department to compensate interns.