2022 rang in a host of labor law changes and – by modern standards – a historic union organizing push. But there’s more. A recent article from Axios reveals the amount of strikes we saw in the U.S. also hit noteworthy levels last year.
of the biggest labor law changes for women in the last 100 years. that s fantastic. congratulations. and as you mentioned, dan snyder, he refused to release employees from their ndas, their non-disclosure agreements so they could speak to congress for the investigation. would that have been a violation of the law that just passed, or is it just going forward? no. this is retroactive. and so if you currently have a forced arbitration clause in your contract or if you have an nda that you signed on your first day of work, you don t have to abide by that anymore if you want to bring forth harassment or assault claims. that s why this is so monumental. this is a game changer for people to be able to own their own truths and own their own voices and their own experiences. and in 2022 at lift our voices we believe that that is what is just. what s your message to anyone out there who might be currently struggling in a toxic workplace environment and is terrified to speak up because the
so the first one was signed by the president. and i was with him on that day on march 3rd. this gets rid of forced arbitration clauses for harassment and assault in the workplace. and people will say what s that? forced arbitration clauses have become pervasive. 84% of all americans have them in workplace contracts right now. what that means is you don t get to go to an open jury process. you go to a secret chamber. and that s what s been happening to tons of women and other people who faced discrimination over the years and that s why we never knew about these cases, because they were going away to secrecy. that law was one of the biggest labor law changes in the last 100 years. and then we immediately got to work on the speak out act because we also want to take on non-disclosure agreements. we believe these are the two silencing mechanisms that keep these kinds of stories from the general public. and that was signed by the president yesterday. we got overwhelmingly bipartisan supp
Increase of union election petitions filed at the National Labor Relations Board,agency faces challenges when it comes to processing the influx of cases,a static budget and staffing challenges impare the NLRB’s ability to keep up with the number of cases hitting its docket.