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January 30, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

In the wake of OSHA’s withdrawal of its shot-or-test rule for large employers after the Supreme Court blocked its enforcement, attention has shifted to OSHA’s Covid-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) covering the healthcare industry. On December 27, 2021, OSHA withdrew its ETS that was designed to protect healthcare workers, ostensibly because OSHA failed to meet […]

January 31, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

President Biden’s recent shake-ups at the NLRB have already begun to bear fruit. Bloomberg reports that the NLRB’s new acting general counsel, Peter Sung Ohr, directed the agency to dismiss a case that his Trump-appointed predecessor, Peter Robb, had initiated to curb unions’ use of neutrality agreements with employers. Robb had made clear that he […]

November 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Union organizers may lose the ability to reach farmworkers on their work premises. The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Cedar Point Nursery vs. Hassid to consider whether a California regulation that entitles organizers to enter agricultural property violates the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, Bloomberg Law reports. The rule allows organizers to access […]

September 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. The Supreme Court justice fought for equality for women, including workplace equality both in and out of the legal profession. The Washington Post and The New York Times review some highlights. As an advocate, Justice Ginsburg led a team of ACLU lawyers that brought six cases to the Supreme Court, […]

November 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Google announced on Friday that it would scale back its weekly all-hands-on-deck meetings. The weekly meetings, known as TGIF, allowed workers the opportunity to voice concerns about the company’s operation directly to executives. The meetings will now be held once per month, and will focus more narrowly on “product and business strategy.” The decision is […]

June 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

National Nurses United (NNU) and Johns Hopkins Hospital have reached a settlement affirming nurses’ right to unionize without interference from their employer. The hospital’s 3,200 nurses began their organizing campaign last spring; by June, they had filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the hospital was deliberately impeding unionization. In October, the […]

September 23, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Nurses unions around the country are advocating for safe staffing levels at hospitals, i.e. limiting the number of patients assigned to each nurse so that nurses can provide safer care. For instance, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is promoting a ballot initiative this November (Ballot Question #1) that would establish safe staffing levels. Hospital executives are […]

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