Court gives go-ahead to Trump’s plan to halt union bargaining for many federal workers

 A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively …

Two new academic articles on platform work

Professor Maria Eugenia Rodriguez Florez recently published two important texts on platform work. The first text, written with Maria Figueroa, is the first chapter of the book “The Elgar Companion …

Amazon Denied Fifth Circuit Help in Lawsuit Against NLRB

Amazon.com Inc. failed to convince a federal appeals court to stop the National Labor Relations Board from acting on unfair labor practice allegations against the company while it proceeds with …

Labor group sues Starbucks, saying it ignores slave-like conditions for workers in Brazil

A labor rights group sued Starbucks on Thursday, alleging that it sourced coffee from a major cooperative in Brazil whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions. International Rights Advocates filed …

‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’

This week, John and seven other Brazilian workers – all identified simply as John Doe 1-8 for fear of retaliation – filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Starbucks, …

Issue Brief: How State and Local Government Can Support Workers’ Right to Form and Join Unions

For nearly a century, the right to form and join unions has been established by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). That right is imperiled by recent actions at the …

Filipino Workers Say FEMA Contractor Cheated Them On Pay

A construction company with $88 million worth of Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts recruited 17 Filipino workers, promising fair wages and free housing, but instead cheated them out of pay and …

Supreme Court Removes Board Member Gwynne Wilcox

Gwynne Wilcox’s on-again-off-again status as a Board member is back off. The Supreme Court issued a one-page order on April 9 staying the decision of the D.C. District Court to …

USC Follows Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX in Calling Labor Board Unconstitutional

The University of Southern California is attempting to block faculty from forming a union with an argument pushed by SpaceX and Amazon: that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. …

The Government Quietly Changed How It’s Enacting a Forced Labor Import Ban

Customs and Border Protection has changed how it’s implementing America’s forced labor import ban, prompting questions from lawmakers, human rights activists and China hawks who are watching how President Donald …