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POLITICO Get the Weekly Shift newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 05/03/2021 10:00 AM EDT Editor’s Note: Weekly Shift is a weekly version of POLITICO Pro’s daily Employment & Immigration policy newsletter, M...

Friday, April 30, 2021 B iden Releases American Families Plan. This week, the White House released an outline of its American Families Plan, which is being touted as the second phase of the administration’s infrastructure proposal (dubbed the “American Jobs Plan”). The American Families Plan would invest $1.8 trillion in education (including training for teachers), federal nutrition programs, childcare, and extending tax credits. Like the infrastructure proposal, the American ...

Biden Nominee Recommended Unprecedented Firing of Labor Arbiter Abruzzo looking to fill vacancy left by NLRB officials ouster Biden nominee Jennifer Abruzzo / YouTube screenshot Graham Piro • April 29, 2021 5:10 pm SHARE A major Biden nominee admitted to lawmakers on Thursday that she urged the president to take the unprecedented step of firing the nations top federal labor prosecutor, creating the vacancy that she now hopes to fill. Jennifer Abruzzo, nominee for general counsel of the ...

ADVERTISEMENT NLRB Says Fight Over Acting GCs Appointment Up To Courts Law360 (April 30, 2021, 4:58 PM EDT) -- The National Labor Relations Board declined Friday to resolve whether President Joe Bidens replacement of the agencys general counsel violated federal labor law and the Constitution, saying the high-profile dispute over the prosecutors authority is best left to the courts. The unanimous decision in a case involving a broadcast employees union marks the boards first substantive ruling ...

ADVERTISEMENT Sens. Press NLRB GC Pick On Robb Firing, Key Labor Issues Law360 (April 29, 2021, 4:38 PM EDT) -- President Joe Bidens nominee to be the National Labor Relations Boards general counsel told senators Thursday that she was indirectly involved in recommending Biden fire the boards former general counsel, Peter Robb, and that shes eager to lead the agency as a neutral enforcer of federal labor law. Thursdays hearing of the chambers Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee star...

Trump Holdovers Are Dragging Down the Biden Agenda In his first 100 days, the president still hasn’t cleared his predecessor’s cronies out of the executive branch, where they’re free to sabotage his presidency. Toni L. Sandys/Getty Images IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig is just one of many Trump-era executive branch holdovers who could hinder President Biden’s agenda. During his campaign, Joe Biden repeatedly held out the promise of an FDR-size presidency—the better to counter the m...

COVID-19 Pandemic Allows Unions to Make Inroads with Health Care Workers For health care workers, the issues of staffing, wages and benefits are typically what unions have focused on in their organizing campaigns. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, these issues are heightened with the added urgency of worker safety. The realities created by the pandemic have and will likely continue to make their impact on health care workers – even prompting some who never may have considered ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On April 21, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board ("Board" or "NLRB") voted to keep in place its long standing rule limiting when workers can try to remove an existing union from the workplace or bring in another – the so-called "contract bar" doctrine. In June of last year, the Board invited public comment on the contract bar issue and received briefs from unions, employer advocates, l...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 21, 2021, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”) voted to keep in place its long standing rule limiting when workers can try to remove an existing union from the workplace or bring in another – the so-called “contract bar” doctrine. In June of last year, the Board invited public comment on the contract bar issue and received briefs from unions, employer advocates, lawmakers, and others on the sub...

Posted: Apr 18, 2021 9:00 AM PT | Last Updated: April 18 The Hope Station House has stood for more than 100 years in Hope, B.C. — but it is in danger of having its heritage status revoked and the building could be demolished. (CPHSHs Save the 1916 Hope Station House/Facebook)