What was your worst job ever?
The year was 1989. It was the summer between my junior and senior years in high school. I worked as a busboy in the dining room of an assist...
I’m begging you, STOP firing union organizers
By Jon Hyman
Brenda Garcia led union efforts at Chipotle as one of its employees. Or, rather, she was one of its employees until last week, when the res...
WIRTW #623: the “blocked” edition
By Jon Hyman
I've probably written more about labor organizing over the past six months than in the prior six years (or longer) combined. It's a ...
Series of promotions dooms gay brewery employee’s sex discrimination claim
By Jon Hyman
Midland Brewing Company hired Ryan Boshaw to work as a server. Over the span of nine months, it promoted him three times, to an hourly manag...
Labor unions are doing just fine without the NLRB’s help
By Jon Hyman
Over the past decade, labor unions win between 65 and 70 percent of representation elections. Given organized labor's recent more high-p...
Restaurant learns the hard way what an illegal tip pool looks like
By Jon Hyman
Hard Eight BBQ says it misunderstood its obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act by paying managers a share of tips earned by servers...
Mask mandates might be gone, but maskual harassment isn’t
By Jon Hyman
Workplaces, state and local governments, and the CDC have relegated mask mandates to the dustbin of Covid history. But just because people a...