Lids, a store selling jerseys, hats, and t-shirts, is facing a class-action lawsuit for failing to pay overtime to store managers. Lids’ managers were paid under a fluctuating work week (“FWW”) method of payment. Under this method of payment, employees are paid a fixed salary amount whether or not they work more or less than … Continue reading No Closed Lid on this Class Action
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New Year Marks Ohio’s Minimum Wage Increase
On Monday, January 1, 2018, approximately 150,000 Ohio workers received a pay raise. The state’s minimum wage rate increased to $8.30 an hour, up 15 cents from last year. The $8.30 is now $1.05 above the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour. For tipped employees, such as waiters and bartenders, the minimum wage rate … Continue reading New Year Marks Ohio’s Minimum Wage Increase
DOJ Reverses its Position on Class Waiver.
The National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) was enacted in 1935 to “to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices.”[1] The Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) was enacted in 1925 to encourage private dispute resolution through arbitration.[2] Whether two federal statutes can live … Continue reading DOJ Reverses its Position on Class Waiver.
The Fight For 15 Just Landed at America’s Busiest Airport
A McDonald’s worker speaks on a bullhorn outside O’Hare Airport yesterday. (Airport Workers United / Facebook) Encouraged by an energetic rally of more than 100 janitors and other members of Service Employees (SEIU) Local 1, a group of low-wage security, cleaning and passenger service workers at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Tuesday launched a campaign to … Continue reading The Fight For 15 Just Landed at America’s Busiest Airport
This Is How Bad the Sharing Economy Is for Workers
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs keep telling us their way of doing business will “change the world.” And in many ways it already has, but it’s changed your world differently than it’s changed theirs. The “sharing” or “gig” economy—think Airbnb, Uber, and Taskrabbit—has made massive fortunes reducing labor to disassembled microtasks; unfortunately, it’s shrunk workers’ rights too. … Continue reading This Is How Bad the Sharing Economy Is for Workers
NetJets Pilots Ask for Better Pay for Flying Millionaires
Despite the inch of rain dumped on the city, last Thursday was a busy day in private aviation for New York. Vice President Joe Biden touched down in Air Force Two a stone’s throw away from Donald Trump’s jet, and just across the river, at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, 85 NetJets pilots walked in … Continue reading NetJets Pilots Ask for Better Pay for Flying Millionaires
The Courage of Low-Wage Workers On Strike
This is no plea for pity for corporate kingpins like Walmart and McDonald’s inundated by workers’ demands for living wages. Raises would, of course, cost these billion-dollar corporations something. More costly, though, is the price paid by minimum-wage workers who have not received a raise in six years. Even more dear is what these workers … Continue reading The Courage of Low-Wage Workers On Strike
Postscript: Julian Bond (1940-2015)
August 17, 2015 BY CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT The opening lyric from that old civil-rights song—“Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom”—may not have been written with Julian Bond in mind, but he personified it. As a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia Senate, as a leader of the N.A.A.C.P. … Continue reading Postscript: Julian Bond (1940-2015)
Jobs With Justice
Dear Jon, Google has the answer for almost every question under the sun, except one: why don’t all of the company’s workers make living wages? Gabriel Cardenas works at a California warehouse for Google Express. And even though Google is a multibillion-dollar corporation, Gabriel and his colleagues employees work in unsafe conditions on short-term contracts … Continue reading Jobs With Justice
Rally to Defend the American Dream
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The Law of Organizing
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