From today’s Forbes: There aren’t a lot of peer-reviewed studies on the benefits of climbing trees, but this rule simultaneously prohibited something potentially positive (clean fun/exploration/nature/exercise) and created animosity—making it…
From today’s New York Times: President Biden on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate Julie Su, the deputy labor secretary, to succeed Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, who has said…
From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: In a win for county office janitors whose labor dispute has pulled in the Board of Supervisors, San Diego County will ask its janitorial contractors…
From today’s Bloomberg News: Comments by Apple Inc. executives and policies imposed on employees have been deemed illegal by US National Labor Relations Board prosecutors, who say they violate workers’ rights. The…
From today’s San Jose Mercury News: A bill that would boost wages and promises to improve working conditions for California’s fast-food workers has been put on hold until the November…
From today’s NBC News: Airport workers across the country are rallying and walking off the job Thursday to draw attention to their current working conditions and legislation that could improve…
From today’s NPR News: Matthew Weaver was excited earlier this week — even optimistic — as he and a coworker hung drywall at a rail yard in Lordstown, Ohio. The…
From today’s New York Times: Hundreds of academic workers chanting “Shut it down” and “We’ve got the power” marched through U.C. San Diego’s seaside campus on Monday as one of…
From today’s Denver Post: Lulu Guerrero wakes up at her home in Wiggins, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to get out to the farm fields that spread across Weld…
From today’s Chicago Sun-Times: Six days after the final vote was cast, a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing collective bargaining rights inched close enough to passage Monday that its supporters declared…