The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to wage a multi-year, “multi-agency effort to combat worker misclassification,” according to its Fiscal Year 2022 White House budget proposal. Part of its proposal would specifically target …
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig companies said California’s Prop 22 would create opportunity for workers of color. A new study says it ‘legalized racial subordination.’
Last year, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber-owned Postmates spent a record $203 million to convince California voters to pass Proposition 22, a company-authored ballot measure that let them avoid paying for …
It’s time to learn if the new Nafta’s worker protections have any teeth
Susana Prieto Terrazas is not a woman to trifle with. In recent years, the attorney became the most well-known labor organizer in Mexico, a burr in the saddle of factory …
Reforma laboral corre el riesgo de quedar en letra muerta: especialistas
Especialistas laborales que integran la Red Sindicalista de Mujeres y el Observatorio Laboral para la Reforma Laboral hicieron un llamado a los trabajadores a conocer y aplicar los cambios a …
Labor, Gig Companies Near Bargaining Deal in N.Y.
New legislation creating collective bargaining rights for gig-economy workers is poised to be introduced in New York State in the coming weeks, according to the president of the Transport Workers Union. …
ACHR to investigate brazilian government and mining companies for human rights violations during the pandemic
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accepted a complaint from union entities about the agglomerations of workers and the violations of rights during the pandemic in the operations of …
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Lawmakers Should Oppose New York’s Uber Bill: Workers need real sectoral bargaining not company unionism
Uber and other gig companies are rushing to pass a bill in the final weeks of Albany’s legislative session that would undermine labor standards for the growing millions of app-based …