/labor/index.rss Read about workers rights; unions; labor unions; labor relations; the gig economy; living wage; minimum wage; science and technology; fast food workers; CEO pay; seat at the table; working class; class warfare; strikes; worker safety; affirmative action; Haymarket; NLRB; en-us Copyright 2025 | casino world | All Rights Reserved Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Steve Early Suzanne Gordon How some (but not all) VA unions became a national-security threat /labor/2025-04-30-veterans-affairs-war-on-unions/ /labor/2025-04-30-veterans-affairs-war-on-unions/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Gordon-Early-VA unions 043025.jpg Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via AP Julie Su Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to make federal employees miserable on the job. Their latest trick: threaten criminal penalties for exercising free speech. /labor/2025-04-25-worker-rights-threatened-department-of-labor/ /labor/2025-04-25-worker-rights-threatened-department-of-labor/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Su-DOL DOGE 042525.jpg Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Marcus Baram Louisiana is one of the most dangerous states in the U.S. for workers. The Trump administration plans to close its lone protection unit. /labor/2025-04-18-osha-office-closure-cancer-alley-louisiana/ /labor/2025-04-18-osha-office-closure-cancer-alley-louisiana/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Cap and Main 041825.jpg Gerald Herbert/AP Photo Luis Feliz Leon The United Auto Workers weren’t always in favor of tariffs; they earlier supported cross-border coordination to support better jobs and a peaceful future. /labor/2025-04-17-uaw-automakers-world-beyond-tariffs/ /labor/2025-04-17-uaw-automakers-world-beyond-tariffs/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Feliz Leon-Autoworkers 041725.jpg Debbie Truong To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument. /labor/2025-04-10-usc-follows-amazon-spacex-calling-labor-board-unconstitutional-nlrb/ /labor/2025-04-10-usc-follows-amazon-spacex-calling-labor-board-unconstitutional-nlrb/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:00:00 -0000 Cap and Main 041025.jpg Kirby Lee via AP Sarah Lazare Specialty contractors and labor brokers are among the participants reducing their own labor costs by burdening workers unfairly. /labor/2025-04-09-construction-bosses-schemes-harm-workers/ /labor/2025-04-09-construction-bosses-schemes-harm-workers/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Lazare-Construction labor 040925.jpg Aaron M. Sprecher via AP Brock Hrehor Colorado’s Democratic legislature is passing a bill to make worker organizations more feasible. But will the Democratic governor sign it? /labor/2025-04-03-americas-only-half-right-to-work-state-colorado-unions/ /labor/2025-04-03-americas-only-half-right-to-work-state-colorado-unions/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Hrehor-CO labor law 040325.jpg David Zalubowski/AP Photo KJ Boyle The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has been destroyed. It provided free collective-bargaining mediation and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in labor costs. /labor/2025-04-02-trump-decimates-pivotal-labor-relations-agency/ /labor/2025-04-02-trump-decimates-pivotal-labor-relations-agency/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 RDP 040225.jpg David Kohl/AP Photo Harold Meyerson Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court. /labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/ /labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Meyerson-Trump fed unions 033125.jpg Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via AP Katherine Tai Julie Su The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S. /labor/2025-03-30-global-working-conditions-matter-american-workers-su-tai-ilab/ /labor/2025-03-30-global-working-conditions-matter-american-workers-su-tai-ilab/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0000 AP080212025110.jpg Mario Armas/AP Photo David Dayen The National Labor Relations Board general counsel is a key policymaker shaping labor law. Crystal Carey, an attorney at anti-union firm Morgan Lewis, is the apparent choice. /labor/2025-03-17-trump-pick-union-busting-attorney-key-labor-law-position-nlrb/ /labor/2025-03-17-trump-pick-union-busting-attorney-key-labor-law-position-nlrb/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:00:00 -0000 Dayen-NLRB 120822.jpg Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images David Dayen There are reports of clogged sinks, overflowing trash cans, and a lack of toilet paper. /labor/2025-03-13-federal-workers-return-to-office-custodial-staff-doesnt/ /labor/2025-03-13-federal-workers-return-to-office-custodial-staff-doesnt/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Dayen-Fed return to office 031325.jpg J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Daniel Boguslaw A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing. /labor/2025-03-13-amazon-uses-arsenal-of-ai-weapons-against-workers/ /labor/2025-03-13-amazon-uses-arsenal-of-ai-weapons-against-workers/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Boguslaw-Amazon union 031325.jpg Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo Harold Meyerson Airport security screeners had a contract, signed just last year. On Friday, Trump trashed it. /labor/2025-03-10-trump-rips-up-governments-agreement-with-workers/ /labor/2025-03-10-trump-rips-up-governments-agreement-with-workers/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Meyerson-TSA union 031025.jpg Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via AP Images Gabrielle Gurley Some state and local leaders are trying to recruit suddenly jobless U.S. government employees. /labor/2025-03-07-throwing-lifelines-to-federal-workers/ /labor/2025-03-07-throwing-lifelines-to-federal-workers/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Gurley-States fed workers 030725.jpg Maureen Adarve/STAR MAX/IPx Jesse Baum Federal call center workers continue their fight after the Biden administration dialed back support for it. /labor/2025-03-07-southern-women-handling-1-800-medicare-calls-still-want-union/ /labor/2025-03-07-southern-women-handling-1-800-medicare-calls-still-want-union/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Cap and Main 030725.jpg Max Rollins Brock Hrehor Localities and worker centers are joining forces to drive back employers who siphon off their employees’ hard-earned dollars. /labor/2025-03-03-wage-theft-workers-unions/ /labor/2025-03-03-wage-theft-workers-unions/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Leticia-James 20280228.jpg Maureen Adarve/STAR MAX/IPx Hilary Beaumont As fear mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the city rebuild and support their families. /labor/2025-02-18-undocumented-workers-clean-up-la-fires-ice-raids/ /labor/2025-02-18-undocumented-workers-clean-up-la-fires-ice-raids/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Capital and Main 021825.jpg Jeremy Lindenfeld for Capital & Main David Dayen This is not about who’s been fired, but who’s still working in the government. /labor/2025-02-15-federal-employee-red-wedding-firings-government/ /labor/2025-02-15-federal-employee-red-wedding-firings-government/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:10:00 -0000 AP25041644280592RS.jpg Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA via AP Images Ryan Cooper Before Elon Musk can exercise authoritarian power, he must purge the federal bureaucracy. But federal workers aren’t playing ball. /labor/2025-02-05-king-musks-government-purge-hits-snag/ /labor/2025-02-05-king-musks-government-purge-hits-snag/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:30:00 -0000 Cooper-DOGE 020525.jpg Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images Harold Meyerson When Biden’s NLRB began to restore workers’ rights, the world’s richest men moved to shut down the NLRB altogether. /labor/2025-02-05-musk-bezos-war-collective-bargaining/ /labor/2025-02-05-musk-bezos-war-collective-bargaining/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:15:00 -0000 FEB25 Meyerson.jpg JANDOS ROTHSTEIN/AP PHOTO Hassan Ali Kanu The federal government relies on millions of contract workers who have minimal job protections. /labor/2025-02-04-vulnerable-federal-contractors-protest-terminations-usaid/ /labor/2025-02-04-vulnerable-federal-contractors-protest-terminations-usaid/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:30:00 -0000 Kanu-DOGE 020425.jpg Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Luke Goldstein Big Tech app companies want to evade employment law, and they’re hoping Republicans will help. /labor/2025-01-31-pro-worker-portable-benefits-scam/ /labor/2025-01-31-pro-worker-portable-benefits-scam/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Goldstein-Portable benefits 013125.jpg Steven Senne/AP Photo David Dayen As many as 200,000 federal employees with weaker civil service protections could be let go. But they are supposed to only be fired for poor performance. /labor/2025-01-29-probationary-employees-targeted-for-mass-purge/ /labor/2025-01-29-probationary-employees-targeted-for-mass-purge/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:45:33 -0000 AP24344276085399.jpg Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo Sarah Lazare A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission. /labor/2025-01-17-building-service-workers-ftc-stops-secret-no-hire-agreements/ /labor/2025-01-17-building-service-workers-ftc-stops-secret-no-hire-agreements/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Lazare-NY building services 011725.jpg Lev Radin/Sipa USA via AP Images Harold Meyerson SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge. /labor/2025-01-13-labors-prodigal-son-returns-seiu/ /labor/2025-01-13-labors-prodigal-son-returns-seiu/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:30:00 -0000 Meyerson-SEIU 011325.jpg John Rudoff/Sipa USA via AP Images Debbie Truong Can educators in California’s largest nonunion public school district—in a county that flipped to Trump—upend a 65-year tradition? /labor/2025-01-09-teachers-cross-party-lines-get-union/ /labor/2025-01-09-teachers-cross-party-lines-get-union/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Capital and Main 010925.jpg Illustration by Tevy Khou Ryan Cooper MAGA voters thought they elected an America First government. Tech billionaires think they are running the show. /labor/2025-01-02-president-musk-american-workers-h1b-visas/ /labor/2025-01-02-president-musk-american-workers-h1b-visas/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:00:00 -0000 Cooper-H-1B visas 010225.jpg Alex Brandon/AP Photo Harold Meyerson With their more than half a trillion dollars, Bezos and Musk join forces to make sure Trump doesn’t support even a scintilla of worker power. /labor/2024-12-20-amazon-strike-bezos-musk-trump-dinner-obrien-bet/ /labor/2024-12-20-amazon-strike-bezos-musk-trump-dinner-obrien-bet/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:15:00 -0000 Meyerson-Amazon strike 122024.jpg Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images Jesse Baum Six hundred New Orleans nurses join a national surge in pre-contract strikes. /labor/2024-12-17-nurses-got-union-but-cant-get-contract/ /labor/2024-12-17-nurses-got-union-but-cant-get-contract/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:10:00 -0000 Cap and Main 121724.jpg Courtesy National Nurses United