Court gives go-ahead to Trump’s plan to halt union bargaining for many federal workers

 A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively …

Amazon Denied Fifth Circuit Help in Lawsuit Against NLRB

Amazon.com Inc. failed to convince a federal appeals court to stop the National Labor Relations Board from acting on unfair labor practice allegations against the company while it proceeds with …

Colombia’s president sends congress referendum proposal that could overhaul labor laws

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday pressed on with his struggling plan to overhaul the country’s labor laws, sending Congress a referendum proposal whose questions for voters include whether workdays should be limited …

Labor group sues Starbucks, saying it ignores slave-like conditions for workers in Brazil

A labor rights group sued Starbucks on Thursday, alleging that it sourced coffee from a major cooperative in Brazil whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions. International Rights Advocates filed …

‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’

This week, John and seven other Brazilian workers – all identified simply as John Doe 1-8 for fear of retaliation – filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Starbucks, …

Issue Brief: How State and Local Government Can Support Workers’ Right to Form and Join Unions

For nearly a century, the right to form and join unions has been established by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). That right is imperiled by recent actions at the …

Filipino Workers Say FEMA Contractor Cheated Them On Pay

A construction company with $88 million worth of Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts recruited 17 Filipino workers, promising fair wages and free housing, but instead cheated them out of pay and …

The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations

From the park closest to my home, I can see the former Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn, where cane sugar from Florida and the Caribbean was refined for decades. Some …

Supreme Court Removes Board Member Gwynne Wilcox

Gwynne Wilcox’s on-again-off-again status as a Board member is back off. The Supreme Court issued a one-page order on April 9 staying the decision of the D.C. District Court to …

USC Follows Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX in Calling Labor Board Unconstitutional

The University of Southern California is attempting to block faculty from forming a union with an argument pushed by SpaceX and Amazon: that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. …