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Labor News & Commentary December 17, 2023 unions rally for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza
https://onlabor.org/december-17-2023/
By Swap Agrawal
Swap Agrawal is a student at Harvard Law School.
In this weekend’s news and commentary, the NLRB clarifies the law on employer non-solicitation policies, unions rally for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the EDI releases a new job guarantee resource.
On December 15, the National Labor Relations Board held that Harbor Freight Tools USA Inc. violated federal labor law by promulgating an overbroad rule prohibiting its employees from soliciting coworkers. The Board’s decision clarified that in the retail setting, an employer legally may prohibit solicitation by employees during nonworking time only on the “selling floor.” Harbor Freight Tool’s policy allowed solicitation in non-work areas, including “cafeterias, lobbies, parking lots, break rooms, and restrooms” but excluding “any areas where customers or clients may congregate or employees perform work for Harbor Freight Tool.” The Board held that this rule was overbroad because it includes areas beyond the selling floor in the Habor Freight’s retail stores, such as the stockroom, warehouse and loading areas, and office spaces.
On December 14, leaders of the United Auto Workers (UAW), the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) held a press conference alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Andre Carson, and Rep. Cori Bush to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Rep. Tlaib spoke of her family’s connection to the labor movement. “I’m a proud daughter of a UAW worker, and I know my Yaba (father), if he was here, he would be so proud,” she said. “The UAW taught him he deserved human dignity, even though he only had a fourth-grade education, even though he was Palestinian, even though he was Muslim. On that assembly line, he was equal to every single human being on that line. Who did that for him? The United Auto Workers did that for him.”
FULL story at link above.