Brave New World: Fundamental Labour Rights in the Charter Era

It is for this reason the Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR) has commissioned the following paper. The objective of the paper is to provide analysis and interpretation of the …

Trump’s Labor Law: Heads, Workers Lose; Tails, Workers Lose

On Friday, as the federal government was preparing to reopen after the longest shutdown in its history, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a decision that will have major …

Morena alista iniciativa en materia de justicia laboral y negociación colectiva

La titular de la Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS), Luisa María Alcalde Luján, evaluó con los diputados de Morena la iniciativa de legislación secundaria en materia de justicia laboral y negociación …

Labor board makes it easier for companies to treat workers as contractors

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) voted Friday to make it easier for companies to treat employees as independent contractors, making them exempt from federal labor protections.  In a 3-1 vote …

NLRB: SuperShuttle DFW, Inc. and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1338

By a 3-1 vote along party lines, the Board reversed its 2014 decision in FedEx  and found that the franchisees who operate ride-share vans for SuperShuttle Dallas-Fort Worth are not …

Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection For Activist Workers

Google, whose employees have captured international attention in recent months through high-profile protests of workplace policies, has been quietly urging the U.S. government to narrow legal protection for workers organizing online. …

How to Make Sure Federal Workers Won’t Go Unpaid Ever Again

In March 1970, 250,000 postal workers went out on strike because Congress
 was refusing to enact legislation that would give them a long overdue raise. Many postal workers were then …

France, UK: “Global Framework Agreements and Trade Unions as Monitoring Agents in Transnational Corporations”

Based on a qualitative analysis of ten French multinational companies, this article pursues an empirical investigation that presents the authors’ view of what a global framework agreement should be. The …

GLOBAL COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF WORK

Co-chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, the Global Commission on the Future of Work outlines a vision for a human-centred agenda that is …

Death to Scabby: Trump Labor Counsel Wants Protest Icon Deflated

Scabby the Rat stands 12 to 30 feet tall, teeth bared and claws raised aggressively, with hungry, bloodshot eyes. The giant rodent’s sickly-looking underbelly refers to the ‘scab’ pejorative sometimes …

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