Labor News

Grocery workers are fighting for a new contract and their livelihoods. Their corporate employers want to slash wages, healthcare, and overtime.

Stand with grocery workers to protect good jobs and good stores!

Join UFCW 770, L.A. unions, and the community for rallies at three Ralphs grocery stores across Los Angeles County next week. Click the links below for more information.

The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been frozen at $7.25 an hour for more than 10 years, to $15 an hour by the year 2025 and index it so future increases are automatic. Importantly, the “Raise the Wage Act of 2019” (HR 582) also would phase out the federal sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, which has been stuck at just $2.13 an hour since 1991.

Just one year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling, undermining over four decades of precedent, in what can only be described as anti-worker and anti-union. The Janus vs. AFSCME decision essentially took away our fair share rights forcing union members to pay for the representation of non-members.

Garment workers form the backbone of L.A.’s manufacturing sector. But tens of thousands of garment workers are routinely underpaid—or not paid at all—for work performed. Wage theft is rampant across L.A.’s low-wage industries: Angelenos lose $26.2 million dollars a week in unpaid wages. But more than four in five workers who win their wage theft cases never end up seeing a dime.

Many NEU members are employed at legal services and advocacy nonprofits. We’ve secured workplace policies and procedures that make our legal services and advocacy nonprofits more inclusive, accountable, and effective. Here are some examples of how we’ve done this.

Gig companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash, desperate to avoid providing basic protections and decent pay to drivers, are engaged in an all-out disinformation campaign to defend their illegal business models and kill legislation that would protect workers. We can’t possibly provide flexibility AND treat our workers with dignity and respect, they say.

Nonsense.