Jury awards KY firefighters $1M for unlawful firing after unionization

A federal jury recently awarded two former Kentucky firefighters $1 million after they were fired for forming a union. Jamie Bottom and Derrick Steele received the award July 18 after …

Bullsh*t: Forced Labor in Brazil’s Beef and Tallow Supply Chains

The use of forced labor remains a pervasive and largely overlooked feature of the Brazilian cattle industry. On isolated ranches, often deep within ecologically vulnerable regions, workers are subjected to …

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Negotiating Tech: An Inventory of U.S. Union Contract Provisions for the Digital Age

This searchable inventory documents how unions have addressed workplace technologies through collective bargaining. It includes provisions from more than 175 agreements, drawn from a review of over 500 contracts, and …

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Por financiar el paramilitarismo en Colombia, siete exdirectivos de la multinacional bananera Chiquita Brands fueron condenados a más de 11 años de cárcel

En una decisión histórica para la verdad, la justicia y la reparación en el marco del conflicto armado, el Juzgado Sexto Penal del Circuito Especializado de Antioquia condenó a siete …

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Trump’s Department of Labor Continues Its Onslaught against Workers

The Trump administration is doubling down on the president and his Department of Labor’s (DOL) deep hostility toward workers. Over the past six months, Donald Trump, his inaptly named Department …

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Trump’s Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards …

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Inscriben apps 350 mil repartidores al IMSS

Las empresas de plataforma han dado de alta en el IMSS a cerca de 350 mil repartidores y conductores desde el primero de julio, día en el que comenzó el programa piloto, …

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Gig Drivers Unionize Without Employee Status Under State Plans

Lawmakers in California and Illinois are proposing to let ride-hail drivers unionize and bargain for better wages and benefits, without changing their status as independent contractors. Both state legislatures are …

Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada

On July 2, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1518 in British Columbia announced that more than 500 Uber drivers in Greater Victoria have unionized.  This historic decision follows months of organizing …

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Uber, Instacart Pressed by 9th to Say How City Law Forces Speech

Uber Technologies Inc. and Instacart faced skepticism Thursday at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as they alleged Seattle’s courier deactivation law unconstitutionally regulates its speech. “I don’t see it …