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Brigham and Women's Hospital told approximately 4,000 striking nurses they cannot return to work until Monday morning, extending what was planned as a one-day strike to a five-day lockout, according to NBC Boston. The nurses walked off the job Tuesday and planned to end their strike at 6:59 a.m.
California and the GEO Group reached a settlement this week affirming that state workplace safety laws apply to immigrant detainees who perform work at private detention facilities, resolving a three-year legal dispute over whether detainees qualify as employees under labor protections, according to
More than 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital will walk off the job on July 8 in what the Massachusetts Nurses Association calls the largest health care worker strike in state history, according to NBC Boston. The strike follows months of stalled contract negotiations over cost-of-living in
Approximately 1,500 PECO Energy workers represented by IBEW Local 614 will strike at 12:01 a.m. Saturday if no contract agreement is reached, union president Larry Anastasi announced Friday evening, according to FOX 29. The workers have been without a contract since spring, and both sides remain div
Labor Policy & LawU.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute. The violations follow a predictable script.
Union OrganizingAmazon initiated an internal investigation after a June 5 fire at a third-party delivery partner facility in Uttarakhand, India, killed two workers, according to a Reuters report published July 3. Police findings show the M&M Logistics Solutions facility lacked a valid fire safety clearance and esse
Civil Rights at WorkThe NLRB requires a 30% showing of interest before scheduling a union election, and organizers need 50% plus one vote to win. Those two numbers define every campaign's math.
Registered nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center's University Campus voted 99 percent in favor of authorizing a 14-day strike on July 1, escalating a contract dispute over staffing ratios, workplace safety, and retention issues at Massachusetts' only academic Level 1 Trauma Center, according to th
Civil Rights at WorkThree distinct salting tactics dominate internal union organizing in high-resistance workplaces: professional salts paid by unions, covert activist salts driven by ideology, and hybrid organizers trained at schools like the Inside Organizer School.
Workplace SafetyLong-term night and rotating shift work causes reduced brain volume, increases cancer risk, and raises mortality rates among workers with cardiometabolic disease, according to an analysis published July 1 in the Los Angeles Times examining 26 years of occupational health evidence and frontline testi
Healthcare & LaborAuthorization cards measure interest, not resilience.
The Taft-Hartley Act's prohibition on solidarity strikes, enacted June 23, 1947, continues to restrict union use nearly 79 years later, according to analysis published this week by labor researcher Hayley Brown examining how the ban prevents cross-employer collective action that proved effective in
