The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which handles every shipping container that crosses West Coast ports, had about 15,000 dockworkers as members when it took on the goal of wresting two jobs from a rival union. The chaos that followed their four-year campaign of staging slowdowns at the Port of Portland and flouting federal…
RWP Labor Vice President Rusty Brown has been appointed by the President of the United States of America to the Department of Labor as a Policy Advisor. Please join RWP in congratulating Rusty on his well-deserved new role.
The Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (Center of Workers United in Struggle), a worker center that forced Target and other retailers to hire unionized janitors, has been declared a labor organization by the Labor Department, and as such, is bound by federal rules for unions. This is the first such determination under the Trump…
A jury in Portland has awarded former container ship terminal operator ICTSI Oregon Inc. $93.6 Million in damages from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Local 8, the Portland chapter. The jury found that the union had been engaged in unlawful labor practices that ultimately resulted in Portland ending the city’s terminal operations and…
A group of airline and railroad unions filed a complaint in D.C. federal court this week against the National Mediation Board over their two-year ban against workers in those industries voting to join a union after decertifying a previous union. The Transportation-Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, the American Train Dispatchers Association, and the Brotherhood of…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register on September 23, 2019. The proposed rule would settle the recurring question regarding the definition of “employee” under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to exempt from the NLRB’s jurisdiction undergraduate and graduate students…
Leif Olson, who resigned 18 days after starting his appointed position as senior policy advisor of the Wage and Hour Division for the Department of Labor, was reinstated Wednesday. His resignation on August 30 came four hours after Bloomberg reporter Ben Penn emailed the Department of Labor and White House about a Facebook post Olson…
Labor Day, which took place this past Monday, isn’t simply another holiday. It honors the value of work and the workers who make our country great. Patrick Pizella’s opinion piece in the Washington Examiner this week entitled “There is Always Dignity in Work” is a great read to remind us what we should strive to…
Recently, I contributed to a paper by the Competitive Enterprise Institute discussing the negative impacts of the proposed Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (H.R. 2474), also known as the PRO Act. This act would overhaul United States labor relations law to facilitate labor union organizing without regard to the negative consequences on…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in a split-decision that employers may bar non-employees from leafletting on their premises, even if the non-employees work for on-site contractors. The decision, which was made on a case brought forth by the San Antonio Symphony, reversed an agency judge’s ruling that the Bexar County Performing Arts Center…
