ITUC and TUCA firmly condemn the US military attack on Venezuela and the violation of its sovereignty

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) express their absolute and unequivocal rejection of the military operation carried out in today by …

Behind Oklahoma Cannabis Farms, New Yorkers With Ties to Beijing

The police found him in his bedroom in Edmond, Okla., facedown, dead from a gunshot wound and still gripping the bloody kitchen knife he had used to try to defend …

NLRB Wins Court Order Blocking California’s New Labor Board Law

California’s state labor board can’t assert authority for now over private-sector union disputes that traditionally fall under federal jurisdiction, a court ruled in blocking enforcement of a new state law. …

Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Sectoral Strategies and Worker Democracy

This post launches a new series exploring how states and cities can expand worker power in the United States. The series is grounded in a set of working papers and …

How to Save Labor Law from Slaughter

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, …

Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination

After years of conservative complaints, the Justice Department moved Tuesday to kill a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial …

Amazon pays out over alleged Seattle ordinance violations

Amazon has agreed to pay $3.7m (£2.7m) to close an investigation into alleged breaches of a Seattle gig worker ordinance, continuing a recent trend of national employers falling afoul of …

Top Court Nixes Union’s Bid to Appeal Ruling in NLRB’s Place

The US Supreme Court prevented a union from seeking review of an appeals court decision that makes it easier for employers to win orders to block National Labor Relations Board …

Instacart sues NYC over delivery worker reforms

Grocery delivery platform Instacart has sued New York City in a bid to block a series of new laws providing new rights for its app-based workers. Filed in Manhattan federal …

Brazil judge orders government to add JBS subsidiary to ‘dirty list’ for slavery

A federal labor judge in Brazil ordered the government to add a poultry unit of meatpacker JBS to a so-called “dirty list” of employers responsible for subjecting workers to slavery-like …