Labor prosecutors have accused the LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr of wielding a return-to-office policy to thwart a union organizing effort. A spokesperson for the National Labor Relations Board said the agency’s general counsel filed the charges Friday, alleging Grindr used the mandate to force out employees because they had “joined the union and engaged in…
Two days after the Republican vice presidential nominee crossed a picket line set up by striking workers producing this publication, the sitting U.S. president, who walked a picket line with striking autoworkers last summer, arrived in Pittsburgh to praise organized labor. President Joe Biden didn’t hurl the word “scab” during his remarks to a group…
So President Biden’s top aides swooped in with their renowned mediation skills, and saved the average American from a Christmas season of empty shelves and (even) higher prices stemming from a long dockworkers’ strike. That’s the narrative the White House is peddling about its role in ending the three-day walkout. Not so fast: Biden strong-armed…
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the US’s largest and best-known labor unions, has declined to endorse a candidate for president, citing major political divides among its membership, as well as dissatisfaction with each major candidate’s stances on key union priorities. In a tight presidential race where the vast majority of labor unions have…
Transport and catering operators have urged Hong Kong authorities to continue offering labour import schemes to help fill the thousands of vacancies in the workforce, despite some unions calling for the measures to be suspended. Representatives of minibus and catering companies said the schemes to bring in workers, mainly from mainland China, were also part…
Trade unions have urged Hong Kong authorities to halt or review a scheme to bring in transport, retail and aviation workers from outside the city, following the suspension of such arrangements for the construction industry amid claims of exploitation of migrant labourers. Calls from the unions to either withdraw the scheme or bring forward a…