Two bills could crack down on abuses by New York employers, this week in the war on workers

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Workers in New York could gain new protections through separate bills in New York City and in the state legislature—but the New York City measure was delayed Thursday for five more months, despite having been passed by lawmakers four months ago. That bill would require many job listings to include salary information, a move that could help crack down on pay inequities. It would apply only to employers with four or more employees.

In the state legislature, the newly introduced Warehouse Worker Protection Act “would require employers with at least 50 employees in a single warehouse or 500 workers statewide to share a written description of productivity quotas, how the quotas are developed, and how they can be used for disciplinary purposes with each worker,” Lauren Kaori Gurley reports at Vice. “It would also ensure that production quotas do not interfere with workers’ basic rights such as bathroom breaks and rest periods or health and safety laws.”

● The four most popular anti-union talking points and why they’re wrong.

● This is no way to treat pregnant workers, writes A Better Balance’s Dina Bakst.

● Nurses at two Palo Alto hospitals went on strike Monday:

“We are out here trying to get the hospital to listen to us about getting paid, being willing to make good contract agreements with us that will make nursing more sustainable, and improve our staffing, among other things,” said Kathy Stormberg, a registered nurse at Stanford and Crona Vice President.

● And speaking of nurses, Aparna Gopalan reports on The nurses who wouldn’t come in from the cold:

As 2021’s longest labor action, the St. Vincent nurses’ strike reflects the labor movement’s rapidly expanding horizons. After decades of concessionary bargaining focused on an increasingly narrow set of bread-and-butter issues (such as pay and benefits), more recent labor actions have shifted to ​“common good” demands that include the broader communities workers are part of, and serve.

● Learn it, do it, teach it: Member organizers turn the moment into a movement.

● One simple trick to protect workers from inflation, via Hamilton Nolan.

● Late disclosures concealed the extent of Amazon’s anti-union campaign, reports Dave Jamieson.

● Noam Scheiber reports on the revolt of the college-educated working class.

● Adjunct professors can work three jobs to make a living wage.

● Workers at Massachusetts hospital vote to unionize despite management’s fierce opposition

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