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Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land

Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating …

2 Black TikTok workers claim discrimination: Both were fired after complaining to HR

Matima has taken her case to the U.S. government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC. She and another Black employee, Joel Carter, who had a similar experience at another TikTok office, …

US: New Board Decisions Seek to Facilitate Collective Bargaining

“The National Labor Relations Board issued two complementary decisions on August 26, 2023, with a view to facilitating the collective bargaining process, the capstone of what amounted to an energetic and exciting week at the …

California poised to become first US state to ban caste discrimination

California could become the first state to ban discrimination based on someone’s caste after legislators on Tuesday approved the bill. This move gives added protections to people from countries like …

Chipping Away at the Right to Strike

On June 1, the Supreme Court issued a significant decision against the labor movement in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters Local Union No. 174. In an 8–1 split, the Court found that …

Miller Plastic Products, Inc. and Ronald Vincer. Case 06–CA–266234 (NLRB)

In March 2020, during the early stages of the COVID- 19 pandemic, the Respondent terminated employee Ronald Vincer for raising concerns about its COVID pro- tocols and decision to remain …

Board Returns to Totality of Circumstances Test for Determining Concerted Activity

The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Miller Plastic Products, Inc. (decided on August 25th), returning to the long-established test for determining whether an employee who intends to induce group action …

Female professors sue Vassar College, alleging wage discrimination

Five female professors at Vassar College are suing the elite institution in Upstate New York — one of the country’s first colleges to educate women — alleging it engaged in decades …

US asks Mexico to review cargo airline pilots’ rights

The United States is asking Mexico to review whether the labor rights of pilots at a small cargo airline are being infringed, the eight such request Washington has made this …

Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead

Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board released its most important ruling in many decades. In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of …

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