“Having spent the bulk of my 39-year career with the U.S. Department of Labor enforcing federal worker protection statutes in the six New England states, I was fortunate twenty years …
California poised to become first US state to ban caste discrimination
California could become the first state to ban discrimination based on someone’s caste after legislators on Tuesday approved the bill. This move gives added protections to people from countries like …
Miller Plastic Products, Inc. and Ronald Vincer. Case 06–CA–266234 (NLRB)
In March 2020, during the early stages of the COVID- 19 pandemic, the Respondent terminated employee Ronald Vincer for raising concerns about its COVID pro- tocols and decision to remain …
Board Returns to Totality of Circumstances Test for Determining Concerted Activity
The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision in Miller Plastic Products, Inc. (decided on August 25th), returning to the long-established test for determining whether an employee who intends to induce group action …
Female professors sue Vassar College, alleging wage discrimination
Five female professors at Vassar College are suing the elite institution in Upstate New York — one of the country’s first colleges to educate women — alleging it engaged in decades …
US asks Mexico to review cargo airline pilots’ rights
The United States is asking Mexico to review whether the labor rights of pilots at a small cargo airline are being infringed, the eight such request Washington has made this …
CEMEX Construction Materials Pacific LLC (NLRB)
Today, the Board issued a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC announcing a new framework for determining when employers are required to bargain with unions without a representation election. The new framework will …
Law & Informality Insights No 8
This edition of Law & Informality Insights describes WIEGO’s strategies to articulate the working conditions of waste pickers as human rights violations and to draw to this the attention of the Inter-American Commission …
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Chipping Away at the Right to Strike
On June 1, the Supreme Court issued a significant decision against the labor movement in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters Local Union No. 174. In an 8–1 split, the Court found that …