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Arizona Legislature Votes to Legalize Discrimination. Urge Governor to Veto

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Last week in Arizona, the tea party-dominated legislature passed a bill that will allow businesses to slam their doors shut on anyone they say doing business with would violate their religious beliefs. While the bill was aimed primarily at the LGBTQ community, in effect, it could allow business owners to discriminate against anyone. Gov. Jan …

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Duff on ALT-Labor, Secondary Boycotts, and Toward a Labor Organization Bargain

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Michael Duff (Wyoming) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming piece in the Catholic University Law Review entitled: ALT-Labor, Secondary Boycotts, and Toward a Labor Organization Bargain. Here is the abstract: Recently, workers led by non-union labor advocacy groups, popularly labelled “ALT-Labor,” have been staging strikes and other job actions across the low wage economy.  Some observers …

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Altoona Nurses Strike As UPMC Continues to Put Profits Before Patients

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SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania‘s registered nurses at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Altoona are on a one-day strike today. UPMC rejected proposals for better staffing ratios, which is shown to improve patient outcomes, decrease the length of hospital stays, and increase patient satisfaction scores, among other issues. “It comes down to patient care and safety,” …

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Tennessee Republicans Celebrate Union Loss at Volkswagen by Talking Subsidies

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Sen. Bob Corker’s (R-TN) threats against jobs may or may not have changed the outcome of a union election at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant, in which the UAW lost a narrow victory. We’ll probably never know exactly how many workers decided to vote against unionizing after the Republican senator claimed that if they voted no, …

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From the Archives: Celebrating SEIU’s African-American Leaders

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As I reviewed the SEIU archives for photographs and records featuring African-Americans to celebrate this Black History Month, I noticed that when it came to leadership at the International level, the year 1980 stood out. Although African-Americans served as International Officers and on the International Executive Board in previous years, never before had so many …

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This Week in the War on Workers: Temp Work Isn’t Safe and it Often Isn’t Temporary

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Temp workers face higher risk of injury and even death on the job than workers directly employed by the companies they work for, a December ProPublica report showed: A ProPublica analysis of millions of workers’ compensation claims shows that in five states, representing more than a fifth of the U.S. population, temps face a significantly greater risk …

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Yes, 87,500 Macy’s Workers Won’t Get Thanksgiving Holiday, But That’s Not Their Biggest Concern

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Department store chain Macy’s, known for its lavish Thanksgiving Day parade, is taking heat for canceling the holiday for many of its 175,000 employees. On Oct. 13, the Chicago Sun-Times reported the news that Macy plans to break with its 155-year practice of closing its stores on Thanksgiving Day. Macy’s spokesperson Holly Thomas confirmed to Working In These Times that about …

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Unpaid Intern Cannot Bring Sexual Harassment Claim Under NYC Human Rights Law, Judge Rules

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A New York federal district court has ruled that a former unpaid intern for Phoenix Satellite Television US, Inc., cannot bring a sexual harassment claim under the New York City Human Rights Law, because the lack of compensation renders her unable to meet the requirement of employee status under the statute. Judge P. Kevin Castel issued the ruling in Lihuan …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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