Eswatini: Authorities must stop using the courts to intimidate and harass union leaders

Ahead of the court appearance of Sticks Nkambule, Secretary General of Swaziland Transport Communication and Allied Workers Union, on trumped-up charges of contempt of court stemming from his involvement in …

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US requests probe of alleged labor abuses at Grupo Mexico mine

 U.S. labor officials on Friday asked Mexico to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX) mine in the central state of Zacatecas, the 11th U.S. labor complaint in Mexico …

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US DOL, USTR REQUEST MEXICO REVIEW ALLEGED DENIAL OF LABOR RIGHTS AT SAN MARTÍN MINE IN ZACATECAS

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement today requested the government of Mexico review an allegation that the rights of workers are being denied at the San Martín …

Labor Board Retools Crucial Independent Contractor Test

The National Labor Relations Board revamped its legal test for determining whether workers are employees covered by federal labor law or independent contractors who fall outside the law’s protections, bringing …

Glacier Northwest Could Have Been Worse, But it’s Still Bad

As expected, all six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the employer in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. Teamsters. Due to strategic voting by Justices Kagan and …

Facebook owner Meta blocked from firing content moderators

Facebook owner Meta has been blocked from firing more than 180  content moderators until a case challenging their dismissal is determined. On Friday, Employment and Labour Relations Court judge Byram …

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ILO: Migrant workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining

“Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining (FACB) are fundamental rights of universal scope that should apply to all workers – including migrant workers – without distinction. In …

Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Here is the full decision of the US Supreme Court where it found that the union must take ‘reasonable precautions’ to protect an employer’s perishable product, which will likely open …

US Supreme Court hands defeat to organized labor in truckers strike case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt another setback to organized labor by making it easier for employers to sue over strikes that cause property destruction in a ruling siding …

U.S. employers have gone from opposing international labor standards to hiding behind them. Now a complaint is trying to stop U.S.-style union busting from taking over the world

Earlier this month, a group of U.S. unions–the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and Workers United–filed a complaint with the International Labour Organization’s Committee on Freedom of Association. In the filing, they convincingly argue …