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United Auto Workers want a bigger slice of a shrinking pie

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United Auto Workers want a bigger slice of a shrinking pie

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/13/2023

If the United Auto Workers go on strike this week – and as I write this it appears as though they will – it…

Labor and Employment

An invitation for union organizers to cheat in elections

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An invitation for union organizers to cheat in elections

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/01/2023

The National Labor Relations Board has issued a new rule for union organizing elections that says the election will go ahead even when there…

Labor and Employment

Biden administration working overtime to regulate working overtime

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Biden administration working overtime to regulate working overtime

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/31/2023

The Biden administration issued a new rule this week that vastly expands of the number of workers covered by federal overtime rules. While some…

Business and Government

What you don’t know about the Wagner Act

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What you don’t know about the Wagner Act

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/01/2023

What stance does the National Labor Relation Act, the main federal law regarding union rights, take towards workers joining unions? A long-held article of…

Labor and Employment

The Paycheck Protection Act gives Congress a chance to defend the little guy

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The Paycheck Protection Act gives Congress a chance to defend the little guy

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 08/01/2023

Freshman Missouri congressman Eric Burlison (R) has introduced legislation called the Paycheck Protection Act. The act, a project of the nonprofit American Legislative…

Government Unions

Hollywood and the collateral damage of strikes

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Hollywood and the collateral damage of strikes

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/26/2023

The current Hollywood strike by writers and actors has forced several others who don’t have an issue with the studios to stop working.

Labor and Employment

Teamsters’ UPS win suggests more strikes coming

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Teamsters’ UPS win suggests more strikes coming

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/25/2023

Tuesday’s announcement that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS have agreed on a contract is a likely sign that strikes and other union…

Labor and Employment

Actors and writers unions are fighting technological change. Expect change to win.

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Actors and writers unions are fighting technological change. Expect change to win.

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/17/2023

The current strike by Hollywood writers and actors is a reactionary, rear-guard effort against changes in technology. The members of the WGA (Writers Guild of…

Labor and Employment

The Teamsters want UPS drivers to go on strike

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The Teamsters want UPS drivers to go on strike

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/12/2023

UPS’s drivers will likely go on strike at the end of the month. It would be a huge disruption to the broader economy – and…

Labor and Employment

Supreme Court’s Janus case 5 years later: Workers are invoking their rights

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Supreme Court’s Janus case 5 years later: Workers are invoking their rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/29/2023

A common argument made by unions and their allies is that workers want to belong to unions but that big business uses all manner of…

Government Unions

Biden Labor pick Julie Su claims she cannot recall her Prop 22 vote

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Biden Labor pick Julie Su claims she cannot recall her Prop 22 vote

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/07/2023

Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su claimed multiple times Wednesday that she could not recall how she voted on California’s Proposition 22, the ballot initiate…

Business and Government

Romney slams Labor nominee Su’s ‘so severely lacking’ record

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Romney slams Labor nominee Su’s ‘so severely lacking’ record

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/21/2023

Julie Su, the White House’s pick to replace outgoing Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, had her first of two Senate hearings Thursday. Sen. Mitt Romney…

Labor and Employment

Freelancers Find Little Sympathy from Left In Fight over Worker ‘Misclassification’

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Freelancers Find Little Sympathy from Left In Fight over Worker ‘Misclassification’

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/19/2023

Kim Kavin is a freelance writer and an activist in the current political fight over the issue of worker classification. As co-founder of the activist…

Labor and Employment

In Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff, It’s a Question of Which Union Wins

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In Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff, It’s a Question of Which Union Wins

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/03/2023

In Chicago’s upcoming mayoral race, the question is not whether organized labor will win, but rather which public sector union walks away with bragging rights.

Labor and Employment

Michigan’s Right To Work Repeal Is a Repeal of Individual Rights

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Michigan’s Right To Work Repeal Is a Repeal of Individual Rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/29/2023

If right to work laws are so bad than why do their critics have such a hard time talking about what precisely the laws do? …

Labor and Employment

DOL Nominee Julie Su An Aggressive Enforcer, Inept Manager

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DOL Nominee Julie Su An Aggressive Enforcer, Inept Manager

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/02/2023

President Biden’s announcement Tuesday that he would nominate Department of Labor Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su to replace departing Labor Secretary Mary Walsh is…

Labor and Employment

Walsh Skates out of the Biden Administration

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Walsh Skates out of the Biden Administration

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/07/2023

The news that Marty Walsh will be stepping down as Secretary of Labor seems to reflect the diminished agenda that Joe Biden will have…

Labor and Employment

Philip Howard’s Not Accountable Focuses on Reform of Public Sector Unions

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Philip Howard’s Not Accountable Focuses on Reform of Public Sector Unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/23/2023

Of the 14.3 million people that the Department of Labor says are currently union members, almost half, 7.1 million, work in public sector jobs.

Government Unions

Unionization Is Down to 10.1 Percent of the Workforce, Lowest Level on Record

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Unionization Is Down to 10.1 Percent of the Workforce, Lowest Level on Record

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 01/19/2023

The Department of Labor annual survey of union density, released today, shows that unions have fallen to just 10.1 percent of the overall workforce,…

Labor and Employment

Customers, Not Regulators, Should Hold Southwest Accountable

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Customers, Not Regulators, Should Hold Southwest Accountable

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/29/2022

Southwest Airlines’ scheduling meltdown over the holiday weekend has prompted Capitol Hill lawmakers to propose hearings and federal regulators like Transportation Secretary Pete…

Aviation

Bailout Suggests It’s Time to Rethink Multiemployer Pensions

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Bailout Suggests It’s Time to Rethink Multiemployer Pensions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 12/14/2022

President Biden announced last Thursday that the government would give $36 billion to bail out the multiemployer Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. It is…

Labor and Employment

Biden Hits the Brakes on Possible Railroad Strike

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Biden Hits the Brakes on Possible Railroad Strike

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/29/2022

President Biden’s call on Monday for Congress to intervene in contract negotiations between railroad workers  and the industry to prevent a strike is…

Labor and Employment

Somebody Better Hit the Brakes Soon in Railway Dispute

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Somebody Better Hit the Brakes Soon in Railway Dispute

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 11/21/2022

Three railroad unions have now voted to reject a contract negotiated by the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) that had been accepted by eight other…

Labor and Employment

NLRB Seeks to Gag Amazon Management

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NLRB Seeks to Gag Amazon Management

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/28/2022

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently alleged that Amazon chief executive office Andy Jassy violated federal labor laws by publicly saying that he…

Labor and Employment

Mandatory Union Fees are Junk Fees

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Mandatory Union Fees are Junk Fees

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/27/2022

The White House yesterday called up federal agencies to target “junk fees” charged to consumers, arguing that these hidden costs are exploitative and drag…

Labor and Employment

Workers Should Be Able to Hear from Both Sides Before Union Votes

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Workers Should Be Able to Hear from Both Sides Before Union Votes

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/24/2022

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Albany, New York, opposed forming a union by a nearly two-to-one margin last week. It was the…

Labor and Employment

Illinois Ballot Measure to Allow Unions To “Keep Our Foot on the Gas”

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Illinois Ballot Measure to Allow Unions To “Keep Our Foot on the Gas”

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 10/06/2022

Here’s a riddle: Why would unions in Illinois promote a ballot measure to establish a right to collective bargaining when that state is…

Labor and Employment

FTC To Use Algorithms in Bid to Hobble Gig Economy

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FTC To Use Algorithms in Bid to Hobble Gig Economy

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/20/2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will use its “full authority” to investigate “unfair, deceptive, and anticompetitive practices” by so-called gig…

Labor and Employment

Why Railway Unions Oppose the Deal Biden Helped Arrange

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Why Railway Unions Oppose the Deal Biden Helped Arrange

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/13/2022

The Chamber of Commerce today urged Congress to step in and impose a settlement should talks between the rail industry and the its…

Labor and Employment

NLRB Proposes Third Rewrite of Joint Employer Rule in Four Years

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NLRB Proposes Third Rewrite of Joint Employer Rule in Four Years

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 09/07/2022

As expected, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a new version of the “joint employer” rule, which establishes when a…

Labor and Employment

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