Gig Workers Are Employees. Start Treating Them That Way.

“The Biden administration has an opportunity to restore basic labor protections to the people who deliver our groceries and drive for Uber and Lyft. One of the nation’s largest grocery …

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Amazon presses for in-person voting for unionization election in the midst of a pandemic

Amazon wants the upcoming unionization election at its Bessemer, Ala., warehouse to be held in-person, arguing against National Labor Relations Board guidance to hold mail-in balloting in the middle of …

Postmates Must Arbitrate Wage Dispute With Nearly 5,000 Couriers

Postmates must individually arbitrate with about 4,800 couriers who allege they are misclassified as independent contractors instead of employees under California labor law, and the company must pay the couriers’ …

U.S. Bans All Cotton and Tomatoes From Xinjiang Region of China

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a ban on imports of cotton and tomatoes from the Xinjiang area of China, as well as all products made with those materials, citing …

Driver lawsuit says Uber and Lyft’s Proposition 22 is unconstitutional

A trio of ride-hail drivers filed a lawsuit in California’s Supreme Court on Tuesday alleging that Proposition 22 is unconstitutional. The proposition was voted into law by California residents in November and …

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Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom

Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity. In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, this is a vision of freedom worth recapturing. “The …

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Fazendas brasileiras de carne 'usaram trabalhadores mantidos em condições semelhantes à escravidão'

Empresas e frigoríficos brasileiros, incluindo o maior produtor de carne do mundo, a JBS, obtinham gado de fazendas fornecedoras que utilizavam trabalhadores mantidos em condições análogas à escravidão, de acordo com um novo relatório. …

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Updating a study of the union effect on safety in the ICI construction sector

“In 2015, the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) published a study on the effect of unionization on the incidence of workers’ compensation claims in companies from the institutional, commercial …

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'Ninguém deveria ser despedido por capricho': trabalhadores de fast food ganham mais segurança no emprego

O Conselho da Cidade de Nova York aprovou um projeto de lei que impediria os trabalhadores de serem demitidos sem um motivo válido. Os restaurantes de fast food dizem que as novas regras vão tornar tudo mais difícil ...

Um desafio legal contra exclusões trabalhistas racistas encontra vida em Washington

“Em 5 de novembro, a Suprema Corte de Washington decidiu, em uma decisão de 5-4, que os trabalhadores de laticínios têm direito ao pagamento de horas extras. A decisão Martinez-Cuevas poderia se aplicar a todos os trabalhadores agrícolas no estado de Washington. Materialmente, isso vai ...

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