The National Labor Relations Board has announced that it will delay its new rule, issued in August, calling for employers to put up posters informing workers of their right to join or refuse to join a union. Naturally, in September, the Chamber of Commerce sued to block the rule from going into effect. Friday, the …
Labor Board Delays Labor Rights Poster Rule as a Result of Lawsuit Read More »
Kmart probably hasn’t made this much news since its 2002 bankruptcy filing. And this time, it’s warmer fuzzier news: At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by …
Layaway Santas Help Kmart Customers Pay Off Christmas Gifts Read More »
Organizing a union is tough enough, given the power employers have over workers and the myriad ways they typically use it to intimidate workers who want to join a union. But organizing workers who don’t spend most of their working hours together building community and trust, but are out in separate locations working on their …
Electrical Workers Use Traditional and Online Organizing in Illinois Sears Win Read More »
If union density is declining in the United States (and it is), it’s because unions can’t compete in the global economy, right? That’s the story we’re often told, anyway, but a new Center for Economic and Policy Research report says that actually, politics plays a major role (PDF). The CEPR study compares 21 countries with rich …
A few things jump out from the results of the AFL-CIO’s post-election poll in Ohio (conducted by Hart Research Associates). Gov. John Kasich’s lousy polling isn’t just something people are telling pollsters without acting on—26 percent of people who voted for Kasich just a year ago reported voting against Issue 2, his signature legislation, Tuesday. Of …
Poll: Ohio Voters are Likely to Penalize Politicians for Issue 2 support Read More »
Next week, Denver voters go to the polls to vote on a referendum that would require employers to offer paid sick leave, and restaurant chains and the National Restaurant Association are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat it. The Huffington Post’s Dave Jamieson explains why an ordinance in one city matters so much: Denver’s …
Denver Paid Sick Leave Initiative Being Fought By Restaurant Chains Read More »
Union contracts are voted on by the members who will work under them. Contracts, though, are complicated documents and what you know about them can greatly influence how they look. Additionally, most union members are not in the room where contracts are negotiated and can only go on the judgment of their representatives about whether …
Auto Workers Use Social Media to Increase Transparency in Contract Talks Read More »
Ha ha ha. Remember the joke the Republicans like to tell about how the Obama administration is passing an intolerable number of regulations and the economy just can’t take that kind of regulation-passing? Granted, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration isn’t the only government agency responsible for regulation, but a new report from Public Citizen (PDF) …
Delays Mount on Life-Saving Workplace Regulations Read More »
The Transport Workers Union, among the first unions to support the Occupy Wall Street protesters, is going to court to prevent the city from forcing its members to drive buses carrying arrested protesters. Several empty buses were commandeered Saturday during the mass arrests at the Brooklyn Bridge and MTA supervisors ordered drivers to drive them: But …
Mitchell Hirsch catches a whole bunch of discriminatory job listings showing up at CareerBuilder.com: The latest examples appear two months after the National Employment Law Project (NELP) released a report detailing similarly exclusionary job postings this spring. Since then, federal legislation has been introduced that would ban hiring practices, including job ads, that discriminate against unemployed workers by excluding …
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.
