Frito-Lay workers won one guaranteed day off per week and put an end to forced “suicide” shifts after a 20-day strike this summer at their plant in Topeka, Kansas. Many were frustrated that the union didn’t hold out longer and win more—but are proud of the role that their fight played in launching the ongoing strike wave. Members of Bakery Workers (BCTGM) Local 218 voted 200-178 on July 23 to accept the company’s latest offer and end their walkout, which drew national attention to the abuse of mandatory overtime.

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The great global supply chain crisis of 2021 — which has ensnared groceries, holiday shopping and everything in between — has bottlenecked West Coast ports, and drawn the involvement of the White House to address it. As the disruption reaches a boiling point and adds to rising price pressures, longshoremen, union representatives and truck drivers have pointed fingers over which party is best positioned to alleviate some of the strains

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The worker shortage is so bad there’s a new term for it: “The Great Resignation.”

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A first-of-its-kind report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals where Americans are quitting their jobs the most.
August quit rate

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For many employers, their biggest concern about raising minimum pay levels is making sure they still differentiate pay between new hires and long tenured employees, which can cascade into pay structure adjustments all the way up the job track.

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Beaumont Suspends 370 Workers For Missing Vaccine Requirement – Royal Oak, MI – The health system announced in July that workers had until Oct. 18 to meet the deadline.

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When Amazon opened a sprawling warehouse in her community in March 2020, Jennifer Bates never guessed she’d find herself testifying before members of Congress one year later about the “grueling” conditions she experienced working inside it.

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“Are you fully vaccinated?” This seems to have become a million-dollar question that employers want to pose to their workers, but confusion abounds regarding the legal contours of this deceptively dangerous question. Many employers continue to wonder about the legal implications of asking an employee’s vaccination status. While the EEOC has confirmed that you can lawfully ask employees their vaccination status without violating federal anti-discrimination laws (provided the question is limited to a yes-or-no response), what about other privacy laws? Specifically, what about the often-misunderstood HIPAA, seemingly cited by anyone who disagrees with any sort of COVID-19 safety protocols? This Insight will untangle the myths from reality and provide employers with practical – and legally correct – guidance on this subject.

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At least that is what an image that has gone viral on social networks shows.

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Mere weeks after a group of port truck drivers voted to unionize, they opened their mailboxes to find termination notices from their employer. That letter was a violation of federal labor law, a judge ruled Tuesday.

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