Hotel Workers Strike on Holiday Weekend
From today’s New York Times: Inside the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, a towering luxury hotel with a rooftop pool and soaring views of the city, Jason Hernandez said on Monday…
SCOTUS Rules First Amendment Entitles Web Designer To Refuse Same-Sex wedding Work
From today’s NPR News: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages…
Unionized Hotel Workers Reach Deal With Largest Hotel Before Strike
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As Los Angeles braces for the largest U.S. hotel worker strike in recent memory, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in downtown announced it reached…
Time To Boycott Netflix? How Consumers Might Shape The Writer’s Strike
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As the writers’ strike stampedes through its second month and the possibility of an actors’ strike looms, it’s time to ask: When — and how…
SCOTUS Rejects “Independent State Legislature” Theory In Major Victory for Voting Rights
From today’s CBS News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a controversial theory that would have given state lawmakers unfettered power to set the rules for federal elections in their…
Starbucks Workers Strike Over LGBTQ Pride Decor Removal
From today’s Reuters News Service: Workers at dozens of U.S. Starbucks locations held strikes on Sunday to express their outrage over accusations by the baristas’ union that managers at several…
Death threats, Harassment, and Poisoned Pets: Why 2024 election workers already are scared
From today’s NPR News: The county election worker was crossing the street with a locked bag full of ballots when he saw a Jeep Gladiator pickup truck come around the…
Michigan Supreme Court To Hear Case on Wage Laws and Initiative Process
From today’s Interlochen Public Radio Online: The Michigan Supreme Court will decide whether the Legislature exceeded its authority under the state Constitution when Republican majorities changed wage and paid sick…
FTC Alleges Amazon ‘Tricked and Trapped People’ With Prime Subscriptions
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime membership service and deliberately made…
A Job With a Fair Salary? What Pay Transparency Laws Are Revealing
From today’s New York Times: Last December, Yun Yati Naing began searching for the job she would begin after graduating from Baruch College in New York City. It was one…