Posts tagged collectively bargain
US court seem poised to lift block on Trump curbing union bargaining for federal workers
July 19, 2025 // Judges on a U.S. appeals court on Thursday said they likely lacked the power to second-guess President Donald Trump's decision to strip hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain.
When Union Leaders Cross the Line
June 12, 2025 // SEIU represents hundreds of thousands of essential workers. Their focus should be on improving wages, working conditions, and safety, not interfering in federal law enforcement or fueling divisive political narratives. When union leaders act like activists first and representatives second, it is the workers who lose. This moment is a wake-up call. America needs unions that are fair, transparent, and focused on results, not organizations that tolerate or even celebrate lawbreaking from the top.
FTC Moves to Allow Independent Contractors to Collectively Bargain
January 14, 2025 // The Clayton Act’s labor exemption provides protections for workers seeking to organize and clarifies that such activity does not violate federal antitrust law, which prohibits anticompetitive business practices. Importantly, this exemption only applies to traditional employees. Independent contractors, on the other hand, cannot engage in collective bargaining, as it is currently viewed as a means of colluding over prices. A policy statement allowing independent contractors to collectively bargain with no fear of liability would be a significant change to federal antitrust law.
FTC Moves to Allow Independent Contractors to Collectively Bargain
January 10, 2025 // On January 7, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its tentative agenda for its January 14 open commission meeting. One of the topics for discussion centers around whether the agency should issue a policy statement allowing independent contractors to collectively bargain.
Grindr Implemented Return-to-Office Policy to Retaliate Against Workers for Unionizing, NLRB Says
November 6, 2024 // The labor agency issued a new complaint against Grindr over the policy, which led to about half of the dating platform's employees leaving the company.
Massachusetts Ballot Measure Would Shove Rideshare Workers Into the Arms of Unions
October 12, 2024 // Even as independent contractors, however, unions still threaten drivers’ flexibility. Unions might negotiate standardized rates, mandatory breaks, or limits on working hours, which, while beneficial in some industries, could restrict a driver’s ability to capitalize on peak demand periods or adjust their work hours to fit personal schedule. The risk of such changes only magnifies when one considers that the Ballot Measure only requires a 25% vote from drivers to form a union that would represent them as a whole. This means that the 30% of drivers working full-time, who would benefit most from being treated like employees, might be able to dictate policy for all rideshare drivers.
Robert Boland: The future of college athlete pay hinges on the presidential election
September 25, 2024 // Most athletes would stand to gain much more from the actions of the NLRB, which could permanently classify collegiate athletes as employees of their universities. This would afford them not only the right to wages but also additional employee benefits such as workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and the right to both unionize and collectively bargain with their schools. The Biden-Harris administration — as well as its NLRB appointees — has been very labor-friendly, and we could expect a Harris-Walz administration to maintain the same approach. However, Republican appointees would be more likely to reject unionization and maintain the NCAA’s status quo — however uncertain — without granting student-athletes employee status or benefits.
Texas State Employees Union workers rally for higher wages following return-to-office mandate
September 18, 2024 // Over 50 UT workers from the University’s chapter of the Texas State Employees Union rallied for a $10,000 across-the-board wage increase on Friday at the West Mall and along Guadalupe Street. The union said the University has not acknowledged the union’s demands since its last rally in March, where members delivered a petition to the University for a $10,000 across-the-board raise. Meanwhile, the return-to-office mandate compounded with higher costs of living in Austin puts more strain on workers’ wages, union members said.
Labor unions lose 63,000 members under new state law
September 5, 2024 // The largest losses of union representation in Florida due to SB 256 come from those employed by the state government — more than 43,000 state employees have lost their unions. The second largest loss of union representation comes from university and college professors, specifically unions that represent adjunct and part-time faculty. Municipal employees from cities large and small follow. WLRN is using public records to maintain a database that shows the full extent of the fallout of the law.
TSA Union Formation Faces Scrutiny
May 30, 2024 // The union that represents TSA agents was put into place via a series of administrative actions undertaken by the Obama Administration. This has led some labor experts to wonder if the union representing these tens of thousands of workers was properly instituted. To address these concerns, Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) sought answers through a series of requests made under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).