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Today’s News & Commentary — September 16th, 2021
16/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — September 16th, 2021
Yesterday, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum urging agency field staff to seek a more expansive set of remedies in settlement agreements with employers. As noted in the Board’s press release, the document builds on a previous memo released last week by Abruzzo, which directed agency leaders to pursue […]
Continue reading …Featured in Dems’ Newest Budget Draft: A Transformative Labor Law Proposal
09/09/2021 Comments Off on Featured in Dems’ Newest Budget Draft: A Transformative Labor Law ProposalYesterday, Democrats on the House Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) released a completed draft for its part of Congress’s upcoming reconciliation bill. Along with other blockbuster proposals, the Committee’s $450 billion package includes a number of provisions designed to raise federal revenues by imposing civil penalties on employers who violate federal labor […]
Continue reading …Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies
08/09/2021 Comments Off on Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on RemediesToday, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released a highly relevant and impactful memo on the office’s intent to seek a rather stunning new array of remedies in unfair labor practice cases. As I wrote about the last GC memo, if the Board does a fraction of the things Abruzzo calls for […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary—September 2, 2021
02/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary—September 2, 2021Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition 22, was one of 17 out of 30 proposed ballot initiatives certified by the Attorney General as having met baseline state […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary – September 1, 2021
01/09/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary – September 1, 2021In Local 23, American Federation of Musicians v. NLRB, a D.C. Circuit panel overturned the National Labor Relations Board’s Trump-era legal rule for deciding when property owners can lawfully exclude employees of contractors. The rule, which was established in 2019, overturned two Obama-era precedents on off-duty contractor worker access: New York New York Hotel & Casino , and Simon DeBartolo […]
Continue reading …The NFL’s longstanding failure to hire non-white candidates into key coaching and executive positions has been well-documented, but a new ESPN analysis reveals much of the same lack of progress in college football. It was merely 1979 when Willie Jeffries became the first Black head coach hired to lead a Division I-A (now FBS, Football […]
Continue reading …Weekend News & Commentary – August 29, 2021
29/08/2021 Comments Off on Weekend News & Commentary – August 29, 2021Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall in Louisiana today, on the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm’s trajectory includes New Orleans in its path and will present a test of the 350 miles of infrastructural protections built up around the city in the years following the devastation from […]
Continue reading …Today’s News & Commentary — August 27, 2021
27/08/2021 Comments Off on Today’s News & Commentary — August 27, 2021The NLRB issued an opinion on Wednesday charging an aluminum manufacturing company with Section 7 violations after firing an employee who wrote “whore board” at the top of an overtime sign-up sheet. The employee was protesting the aluminum company’s unilateral imposition of new overtime procedures, under which employees needed to sign-up for overtime on a […]
Continue reading …Ridgewood Decision – In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are
25/08/2021 Comments Off on Ridgewood Decision – In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges AreIn 2019, I wrote about how the NLRB’s decision in Ridgewood Health Care Centertook away one of the few effective remedies for employer misconduct. This was a case where a new employer took over a business and refused to hire the predecessor’s employees to avoid a bargaining obligation with the workers’ union. The old remedy […]
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- 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
Weekend News & Commentary — September 19, 2021
The Nabisco strike, which began more than five weeks ago in Portland and rapidly spread across the country, appears to be coming to a close. The striking workers, according to BCTGM, the union which represents them, voted “overwhelmingly” to ratify a tentative agreement on a new contract with Mondelez International, their parent company. Local union […]
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