After the Labor Day holiday each year, Americans start to focus more on election options and issues with the end of summer activities, coronavirus notwithstanding! This year, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden used the opportunity of a Labor Day livestream discussion with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to promise that unions will never have a better…
Read More »A three judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia yesterday threw out a lawsuit brought by the AFL-CIO seeking to mandate that employers be required to protect employees from the COVID-19 pandemic. The labor federation had filed legal action last month trying to force the Occupational Safety and…
Read More »Organized labor is still determined to fight to save the Obama era expansion of the joint employer rule, most recently using the COVID-19 crisis as its tool of choice. The AFL-CIO along with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) early this week sent a letter to NLRB Chairman John Ring urging the delay the final…
Read More »The old adage that ‘it depends on whose ox is being gored’ sprung to mind when we read the position of the AFL-CIO relating the coronavirus economic recovery steps floated by the Trump administration this week. True to form, the national federation of organized labor was totally supportive of proposed emergency paid leave benefits for…
Read More »Speaking of unions and their efforts, a few weeks ago, the AFL-CIO released a report written by the “AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions”, in which the labor organization proclaimed a goal of “shorter work days and workweeks with no reduction in pay for workers”. The report went on to portray the…
Read More »With minimum wage increases staying in the forefront in a number of jurisdictions across the country, the state of Florida is likewise moving closer to putting the question of raising the state minimum wage on the November 2020 ballot. Florida for a Fair Wage, the primary PAC behind the measure, has thus far submitted just…
Read More »Many of the nation’s union leaders are regularly admonishing businessmen and women to be more considerate of and generous to their employees. Regardless of how it may impact the viability of the business, unions argue that employees deserve more pay, more lenient work rules and greater benefits from their employer – that is, unless they…
Read More »As we reported to you back in early December, the federal court in Texas enjoined the new Department of Labor overtime regulations that would have more than doubled the overtime exemption threshold to over $47,000, a decision that DOL quickly appealed. Last week, Judge Amos Mazzant of the District Circuit, who actually issued the injunction…
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