The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.
Employers will have far less incentive to comply with an anti-wage theft law under a new Department of Labor rule.
Is the purpose of organizing to increase union membership, or is it to rebuild a working-class movement that can effectively make life better for the vast majority of working people?
Florida is not the first state to loosen child labor protections, or even the most aggressive in that effort. Last year eight states, all led by Republicans, did so, according to a tracking by the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute.
The proposal from outside the White House has the potential to upend our entire system of labor relations.
Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.
Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.
Changes would likely make it more difficult for workers to form unions and negotiate workplace improvements, but the labor movement may withstand those headwinds since many of the factors that have driven its growth remain in place, experts said.
Unions need to plan a response now.
But local governments - cities and counties - are stepping up to advocate for workers.
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