WASHINGTON—Government actions and class-action lawsuits recovered almost $2 billion in 2015-16 in wages stolen from workers, according to a study released Dec. 13 by the Economic Policy Institute. The federal
WASHINGTON—An opposition-research firm the Environmental Protection Agency hired to monitor news coverage has been asking the government to give it workers’ emails, including those of two leaders in the union
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—SAG-AFTRA is now receiving at least five complaints a day about sexual harassment, far more than it got before the revelations about film producer Harvey Weinstein’s predatory practices
WASHINGTON—The National Labor Relations Board on Dec. 16 reversed an Obama-era decision that had enabled workers to organize “micro unions” in separate bargaining units within a workplace—such as the United
LANSING, Mich.—Five years after Michigan outlawed the union shop, three state Senate Democrats introduced two bills to repeal the so-called “right to work” law. “Michigan workers deserve the freedom and
WASHINGTON—In its first major decision of the Trump era, the National Labor Relations Board voted 3-2 to reverse the board’s Obama-era expansion of when companies that hire workers indirectly can
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The National Labor Relations Board on Dec. 12 rejected Harvard University’s appeal of its ruling that the 2016 election where graduate assistants voted against a union was invalid.
OAKLAND, Calif.—More than 3,000 Oakland city employees returned to work after a week-long strike Dec. 12, as contract talks between the city and Service Employees International Union Local 1021 resumed
BANGOR, Me.—Five people, including one from the Maine AFL-CIO, were arrested after a sit-in at Sen. Susan Collins’ office here Dec. 4 to protest her support of the Republican tax
PORTLAND, Ore.—Workers at a Pacific Northwest grocery chain that claims “progressive values” are charging that it isn’t so progressive when it comes to them forming a union.
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