Employers

Uncover How Your Employer’s Power Flows

August 21, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Organize! Book Review, Employers, Investigation, Unions, Worker Rights

When workers at one company started researching their employer, says a union leader in What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know, “it felt like the curtain was pulled back on Oz. All these things that didn’t make sense to them for so long suddenly made sense.” In their new book, Juravich, Geho, and Gorry share their experience researching private-sector employers and helping unions design strategic campaigns based on what they’ve learned. Then they teach us how to do it. The audience is not just union leaders or staff, but rank and filers who want to build winning workplace campaigns. Most of the information is geared toward the U.S., but there is solid advice for Canadians, too.

Does Your Employer Have Illegal Rules On The Books?

October 6, 2023 Robert M. Schwartz, Labor Notes. Resist! Employers, NLRB, Regulations, Worker Rights

On August 2, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), now controlled by Democratic appointees, issued a game-changing decision known as Stericycle. The ruling enables unions to effectively challenge company rules that intimidate or chill workers from engaging in protests, picketing, demonstrations, and other legitimate union activities. Marvin Kaplan, the one dissenting Republican board member, bitterly complained that the new standard returns the board to “a bygone era... when the Board rarely saw a rule it did not find unlawful." Stericycle, a Pennsylvania medical waste disposal company whose employees are represented by Teamsters Local 628, maintained handbook policies governing personal conduct, conflicts of interest, and confidentiality.

The Fresh Hell Of Depending On Your Employer For Abortion Access

June 28, 2022 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Educate! Abortion, Employers, Health Care, Worker Rights and Jobs

Following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down federal protections for abortion rights, major companies, including a number of Silicon Valley giants, publicly broadcast their intention to assist their workers in traveling out of state to obtain an abortion. Meta, Apple, Disney, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Condé Nast were among them, the New York Times noted, joining companies that had made similar pledges in May, when a leaked memo revealed that the Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. These companies include Reddit, Tesla, Microsoft, Starbucks, Yelp, Airbnb, Netflix, Patagonia, DoorDash, JPMorgan Chase, Levi Strauss & Co. and PayPal, the Times reports. Meanwhile, Google pledged to allow workers to apply to relocate “without justification” if they live in states that do not allow abortion.

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