by Justin | Jul 24, 2021 | Graduate Workers, HGSU - UAW Local 5118, NLRB
Harvard’s graduate student union filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University with the National Labor Relations Board Monday, alleging Harvard is not bargaining in good faith with the union by withholding necessary information about its unit and...
by Justin | Jul 20, 2021 | NLRB
It’s been a good eight days or so for those who wish to see the National Labor Relations Board enforce federal labor law as written. Read the article here.
by Justin | Jul 14, 2021 | NLRB, PRO Act
The PRO Act’s monetary penalties should absolutely make it through budget reconciliation. Allowing the NLRB to actually punish wrongdoers for violating federal labor law would be the biggest legal change for unions since the NLRA was passed. Read the article...
by Justin | Apr 6, 2021 | Department of Labor, NLRB, President Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden
A new report by the nonpartisan US Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows why Biden was right to fire Robb—and to do so quickly. The GAO found that Robb was dismantling the agency from the inside. He reduced staff size, destroyed employee morale, and failed to...
by Justin | Mar 4, 2021 | Amazon, NLRB, Organizing
The ongoing union vote by 5,800 Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, has opened a window into the challenges workers face in unionizing. As the public is learning, the boss gets a big role in the process. It shouldn’t be this way. Read the article here.
by Justin | Feb 20, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, PRO Act
You’d have to be over 90 years old to remember it, but when American workers first won the right to strike in 1935, they used it to support each other’s struggles. They refused to deliver or handle goods produced by scabs at another company. They boycotted businesses...
