In the wake of the California Legislature’s passage of a bill to upend California’s burgeoning gig economy, the San Diego City Attorney sued Instacart claiming it misclassifies its workers as independent contractors “to evade long-established worker protections under California law.”
Read moreA judge Wednesday narrowed a California trade group’s lawsuit challenging a state law empowering citizens to bring labor disputes to court, saying the group failed to show how the policy violated separation of powers and due process rights.
Read moreThe American economy added a somewhat disappointing 130,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate held steady at a healthy 3.7% for the third month in a row.
Read moreA judge asked attorneys for a California trade group on Thursday to present further arguments on why a state law that empowers private citizens to file labor lawsuits impedes employers’ due process rights.
Read moreThe American Federation of Government Employees Local 3369 sued President Trump in federal court, claiming his executive orders arbitrarily and capriciously “evict[] federal unions from all of their offices on government property … unilaterally repudiating hundreds of existing agreements between federal agencies and the labor organizations that represent those agencies’ employees.”
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel denied for-profit immigration prison operator Geo Group’s request for relief from a federal judge’s order compelling production of its financial records in a labor dispute with Washington state, given the state’s promise to keep sensitive information from becoming public.
Read moreThe United Auto Workers voted to authorize worker strikes Tuesday as the union begins negotiating with General Motors on a contract that is meant to inform future bargaining with Detroit automakers Ford and FCA US.
Read moreGig economy giants on Thursday threatened to pour $90 million into a ballot measure to defeat a piece of California legislation that would classify their workers as employees entitled to minimum wage and overtime, rather than as independent contractors.
Read moreIn post offices across the country, most city letter carriers have for decades spent the beginning of their shifts sorting mail and then the remainder of their shifts going out on specific routes for delivery.
Read moreFacing an increasing challenge to his second-place position in the 2020 Democratic primary, Senator Bernie Sanders picked up an endorsement Monday from a major national union.
Read moreMore than a dozen Democratic presidential candidates made their pitch to union members at the Iowa AFL-CIO convention Wednesday, and the organization’s leader set the stage by saying, “The path to the nomination and to the White House runs through the labor movement.”
Read moreA federal judge must either rescind the deactivation of Council 93 from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or allow its internal appeal to follow the ordinary course, the First Circuit ruled.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to fast-track a ruling allowing enforcement of three executive orders tightening regulations on labor negotiations in government workplaces.
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A union of federal government workers is challenging the Trump administration’s restrictions on political speech, claiming they not only violate the First Amendment, but could prevent federal employees from doing their jobs.
Read moreAmerican employers advertised 7.3 million open jobs for the second straight month in June, reflecting a strong job market that continues to contribute to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history despite fears of a downturn.
Read moreTruck parts-maker Hendrickson USA did not violate labor law by trying to dissuade employees from unionizing, the Sixth Circuit ruled, unraveling a decision by the National Labor Relations Board.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit certified two questions of state law to the California Supreme Court, in Cole v. CRST Van: Does the absence of a formal policy regarding meal and rest breaks violate California law; and does an employer’s failure to keep records for meal and rest breaks create a rebuttable presumption that the meal and rest breaks were not provided?
Read moreDemocratic presidential contenders were pressed Saturday on their plans to reform health care and fight for workers’ rights at a forum held by the nation’s largest public employees union in Nevada, the state that will cast the first votes in the West in next year’s primary.
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