Labor News

On Wednesday Trump’s Labor Department took the first step to take overtime pay eligibility away from millions of workers. An Obama administration overtime rule expanded overtime eligibility for so-called “managerial” workers. Before Obama these workers making more than $23,000 a year couldn’t get overtime pay. The Obama rule expanded that salary threshold up to to $47,000. Millions of people earning between $23,000 and $47,000 would get overtime pay under Obama’s rule. Trump’s Labor Department doesn’t want those workers to get overtime pay.

The lowest-wage workers in St. Louis are getting a pay-cut, thanks to Republicans in the Missouri legislature.  After the city passed an increase in the minimum wage to ten dollars an hour in 2015, the legislators passed a so-called “pre-emption” law, which prevents municipalities from setting a minimum wage any higher than that of the state.  This will result in St.

Employees Demand Carmaker Respect Workers’ Rights to Vote for a Union without Fear of Retaliation

Canton, Miss. — Citing a pattern of labor abuses by Nissan against its predominantly African-American workforce in Mississippi, employees today announced plans to vote on a union at the company’s Canton assembly plant.

Robbie Hunter: Don’t mess with prevailing wage

State Building and Construction Trades Council President Robbie Hunter had a column posted today on the Los Angeles Daily News web site that punched back at recent anti-union commentaries that have criticized state and national prevailing wage laws.

The Communications Workers of America say they’re “working on next steps” following the rejection of a proposed AT&T contract by 17,000 CWA workers in California and Nevada.

Fifty-three percent of the workers voting voted against the tentative proposed labor contract.

The contract would have raised healthcare costs for CWA AT&T workers in the company’s wired phone, internet and Direct TV businesses.

AT&T and CWA are also still trying to reach a new labor agreement for 21,000 AT&T wireless workers in 36 states.

 Late June has become a time of terror for anyone on the left. These early days of summer are traditionally the last of the Supreme Court’s term, and at a time when the Court is dominated by Republican appointees, Democrats, liberals, and leftists alike often spend the last week of June dreading what the Court is about to do to health care, workers, and the rights of women or racial minorities.

With their current contract set to expire July 1st, the board of Hollywood’s largest union voted unanimously on Sunday to send strike authorization ballots to all of its 160,000 members unless a satisfactory agreement is reached by Friday.  SAG-AFTRA, representing actors, announcers and broadcast journalists, has been negotiating with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new three-year contract.  The union says the studios have ‘failed to make sufficient progress’ on their most critical issues and instead have proposed ‘outr