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NLRB Restarts Hearings June 1
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases have been suspended since March due to the COVID-19 crisis. In those two months, cases have begun to pile up, no doubt from employers violating labor law...
Kroger's to Eliminate Hero Pay
While the COVID-19 crisis continues to wreak havoc on states across the country, one of the nation’s largest supermarkets has decided that the crisis is over and has begun cutting pay for their...
Michigan Hospital Uses COVID-19 to Bust Union
Across the country, communities are cheering healthcare workers as heroes in the war against COVID-19. Yet hospitals are using the crisis to bust unions and fire activist employees.
Freedom Foundation Targets Union Firefighters
In the middle of a pandemic, the Freedom Foundation is hoping to capitalize on the disaster by pushing public employees to opt-out of their union.
Amazon VP Quits over Union-Busting
At the end of March, two weeks into the quarantine in New York City, Amazon employees at their Staten Island warehouse held a walkout to protest the company’s negligence in protecting the...
Trump's Trade War Results in More Business for Mexico
Trump's trade war with China was supposed to result in manufacturing jobs being brought back to the United States. Instead, it led to China shutting down much of its trade with the US, leaving...
Target and Amazon Workers Strike
After periodic walkouts and sickouts over the past few weeks, workers at two of the nation's biggest companies are taking action on May Day. While job actions often take place on May 1st, also...
Employers: No Liability if Employee Get COVID-19
Frontline workers are being asked to work in some of the most dangerous times and are sometimes being asked to do it without proper PPE. Whether the employer didn't have enough like in many...
NJ Hospital Retaliates Against Workers
This post was written by the NJ AFL-CIO The New Jersey State AFL-CIO stands for our front-line heroes fighting the coronavirus pandemic every day. We are outraged by ongoing retaliation against...
Companies Use COVID-19 Pandemic to Attack Workers
Last week, UCOMM reported on companies that are stepping up to help build PPE, produce hand sanitizer, and ramp up production for ventilators. While the pandemic has brought out the best in these...