Ian Kullgren
Bloomberg Law
Washington, DC, United States
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Sanders to Revist Rail Worker Paid Leave as Senate HELP Chair
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to introduce legislation that would give 125,000 railroad workers paid sick leave, revisiting an issue at the center of an 11th-hour deal to avert a nationwide strike last year. → Read More
Amazon Union Targets Kentucky Warehouse in Bid for a Drive (1)
Workers at a Kentucky Amazon facility are looking to form the first union outside of New York, according to an organizer and an attorney for Amazon Labor Union. → Read More
Apple Store Workers in Kentucky Announce Organizing Campaign
Workers at an Apple store in Louisville, Ky., are forming a union—and may even have enough support to win an election, according to the group’s leader. → Read More
Punching In: NLRB Memo Explores Expanding Union Picketing Rights
Labor board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has big plans for 2022, including a push to make it easier for workers to picket companies other than their employer and ratcheting up fines. → Read More
Restaurants’ bailout problem: Unemployment pays more
Restaurants represent less than 9 percent of Paycheck Protection loan recipients, but as of March accounted for the majority of layoffs nationwide. → Read More
America’s job market flips from hot to frozen
Experts and analysts warn that the nationwide unemployment could rise into the mid-teens by summer. → Read More
Mnuchin: Stimulus deal will be finalized today
The bill would tide the U.S. economy over for 10 -12 weeks, he says. → Read More
De Blasio asks Trump to send military to New York
“The military is the best logistical organization in the nation,” New York’s mayor said. → Read More
It’s a ‘wild west’ for medical supplies in states, Pritzker says
The governor of Illinois said it is chaos out there. → Read More
Many states are ill-prepared for unemployment benefits surge
Nearly half of U.S. states and jurisdictions are running dangerously low on unemployment cash. → Read More
Labor's civil war over 'Medicare for All' threatens its 2020 clout
In union-heavy primary states like California, New York, and Michigan, the fight over single-payer health care is fracturing organized labor. → Read More
Past leader of anti-immigration group resigns from Trump administration
Julie Kirchner was once a leading candidate for the top slot at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. | Matt York, File/AP Photo A former chief of an anti-immigration group who was once a leading candidate for the top slot at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has resigned. In an email to staff today, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Julie Kirchner, the USCIS… → Read More
White House intervenes in General Motors strike
The effort would effectively put the White House on the side of the United Auto Workers. → Read More
Working Families Party endorses Warren in blow to Sanders
Elizabeth Warren trounced Bernie Sanders in a vote of Working Family Party members, garnering 61 percent of the vote compared to Sanders’ 36 percent. → Read More
USCIS changes automatic citizenship for children of overseas service members
Starting Oct. 29, parents of children born outside the U.S. will have to apply for citizenship on their child’s behalf. → Read More
How Beto O’Rourke would help workers
O‘Rourke’s proposal includes a grab bag of union protections currently under consideration by House Democrats. → Read More
How Bernie Sanders would boost unions
Sanders’ plan rests on major changes to federal labor law. → Read More
Trump's top economic advisers try to calm recession fears
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow rattled off a list of positive statistics about the economy under Trump. → Read More
Construction workers prepare to battle former ally Trump
A powerful union group uneasy about a Labor Department apprenticeship proposal has "the potential to be a significant force in the 2020 election." → Read More
Scalia’s challenge: Fiery old writings in a new era of #MeToo
In 1998, Eugene Scalia criticized “quid pro quo“ laws designed to hold bad bosses accountable. His writings animated his last Senate confirmation in 2001. → Read More