A lot of gig workers in the United States should be classified as “employees” who deserve work benefits, President Biden’s labor secretary said on Thursday, suggesting a shift in policy …
Google Promises Not to Muzzle Staff on Pay, Settling Labor Case
Google promised not to silence workers who talk about their pay, part of a settlement resolving one of the first legal complaints filed by a new union representing hundreds of …
US bars rubber gloves from Malaysian firm due to ‘evidence of forced labour’
Top Glove, the world’s largest manufacturer of rubber gloves, has been banned from exporting its products from Malaysia to the United States after the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made a …
Mexican women say gender discrimination plagues U.S. temporary work programs
A group of Mexican women migrants has filed a complaint accusing the U.S. government of violating a trade agreement by failing to enforce gender discrimination laws in temporary labor programs, …
Labor board withdraws rule to quash graduate students’ right to organize as employees
The National Labor Relations Board said Friday it will withdraw a proposed rule to deny teaching and research assistants at private universities the legal protection to form unions, upholding a 2016 decision that cleared …
WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE: Food Workers Organizing on the COVID Frontlines
Today the Food Chain Workers Alliance is launching the report “WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE: Food Workers Organizing on the COVID Frontlines.” The report documents the devastating and disproportionate impacts of …
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Fight for $15 Pressures Job Boards Over McDonald’s Ads After Sexual Harassment Claims
“McDonald’s talks about and markets itself and prides itself on the fact that it’s ‘America’s best first job’,” Allynn Umel, Fight for $15’s national director, tells Teen Vogue. “And in the …