The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions declined in 2019 by 0.2% from 2018 to 10.3%. In comparison, unions once stood at 20.1% in 1983, the first year for which data was made available. Public-sector worker union rates (33.6%) eclipsed…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has revised its regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that provide guidance on determining joint-employer status. In January 2020, The DOL released a Joint Employer Fact Sheet defining those changes. That fact sheet may be viewed and downloaded here.
Today, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced a series of modifications to the Agency’s representation case procedures that will end the Obama-era Ambush Election Rule. Of the changes, NLRB Chairman John F. Ring stated, “These are common-sense changes to ensure expeditious elections that are fair and efficient. The new procedures will allow workers to…
Despite allegations of corruption against James Hoffa Jr., the Teamsters union elected president since 1998, Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar attended a Teamsters forum hosted by the labor leader on Saturday in the hope of earning his endorsement. To receive an invitation to the forum, candidates…
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…
