April 11, 2024 News & Commentary Maine Legislature votes to grant farm workers minimum wage and labor rights; Apple store workers in New Jersey petition to unionize; and Wisconsin Governor vetoes legislation to rollback child labor laws.
December 8, 2023 News & Commentary The unemployment rate falls in November; Governor Newsom reconsiders $25/hour minimum wage for healthcare workers; Apple faces labor challenge in India; former labor leader convicted
June 21, 2023 News & Commentary Union-negotiated pay raises hit an all-time high, the NLRB rules that Apple illegally interrogated staff about their union, and the Senate HELP Committee will be marking up the PRO Act.
May 25, 2023 News & Commentary New York Times reporting covers the corporate anti-union campaigns; American Airlines pilots reach a preliminary agreement on a new contract; and the WGA strike continues.
May 4, 2023 News & Commentary Trump-era NLRB ruling vacated by Eleventh Circuit; Fred Myer found to discriminate on political belief; Apple unionized workers in active negotiations.
April 11, 2023 News & Commentary Workers in Wisconsin protest Energizer’s plans to close its Fennimore plant, Apple increases its anti-union efforts at its retail locations, and major U.S. unions saw their membership grow amid a tight labor market.
March 29, 2023 News & Commentary Former Starbucks CEO testifies today before a Sanders-led Senate committee, and Kansas City Apple store organizers file charges with the NLRB.
January 31, 2023 News & Commentary Apple faces ULP charge; public school teachers strike in Massachusetts; UAW runoff voting begins; a Jacobin article discusses a new app that could facilitate union organizing
January 11, 2023 News & Commentary The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Glacier case and workers at Apple's first unionized store begin collectively bargaining.
November 17, 2022 News & Commentary Strikes at Starbucks; House passes bill nullifying gag orders around workplace sexual harassment; St. Louis Apple Store workers move to unionize; New York City proposes higher wages for delivery app workers; SCOTUS decision will determine next steps in cases against meatpacking companies by families of workers who died of COVID-19; Missouri doubles down on subminimum wages for disabled workers