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As Delivery Firm UniUni Prepares to Go Public, Employees Raise Concerns Over Driver Pay and Safety

Logistics and delivery company UniUni, which plans to launch an IPO later this year, does not pay its drivers overtime or for hours spent sorting packages each day, according to four former employees, a strategy that has allowed UniUni to dramatically undercut legacy delivery companies on...

Sep 25, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: DoorDash Forks Over $132 Million in NYC Settlement Over Driver Pay; Amazon Hit with Another Lawsuit Challenging its Labor Market Power Over Deliveries; Congressional Dems Call for DOL Investigation into Allegedly Astroturfed Public Comments

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • DoorDash settles accusations of underpayment to delivery workers in New York City, admitting that its payment calculations were improper. • A new...

Sep 24, 2026 Read Now >

EU Big Tech Case Tracker

This is The Capitol Forum’s Big Tech tracker, where we follow investigations and other proceedings targeting technology giants like Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META) and more across the EU. Here, we monitor and bring you up to date on cases launched under the bloc’s Digital...

Sep 22, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Trump Administration’s Embattled Ban on Non-Citizen Truck Drivers Could Eliminate 200,000 Drivers, Squeezing Truck Load Capacity; Bill Granting Broad NCAA Antitrust Immunity Teed Up for Senate Vote; State Attorneys General Question FAA Preemption of Arline Worker Protections

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • A proposed ban on non-citizen truck drivers that could have far-reaching industry consequences was considered during oral arguments this week at the...

Sep 17, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: NLRB Appeals Circuit Court’s Rejection of Post-Merger Bargaining Doctrine; Employer Anti-Union Spending Transparency Continues to Decline, Nonprofit Finds; Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern Should Be Probed for Labor Effects, Democrats Say; California Antitrust Bill Poised to Expand Labor Antitrust Enforcement Toolbox

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • The National Labor Relations Board argued in favor of protecting employee unions post-acquisition after a trial court loss. • Employers’...

Sep 10, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: NLRB On Track to Overturn Lingering Biden-era Caselaw; Nuclear Energy Providers Beat Wage-Fixing Lawsuit, For Now; Discovery Spat in UPMC Monopsony Case Highlights Ruling Delay

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • NLRB General Counsel issues caselaw targets for Board review. • Nuclear energy workers challenging alleged wage-fixing lose motion to dismiss. •...

Sep 03, 2026 Read Now >

As SpeedX Gains Ground Delivering Packages for SHEIN and Temu, Sources Say It’s Cutting Corners on Safety and Pay

Four sources with direct knowledge of the daily operations at the logistics startup SpeedX raised concerns with The Capitol Forum about long hours, a lack of overtime pay, unsafe conditions, and injuries among warehouse...

Aug 12, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Upstart Rideshare Firms Challenge Uber-Lyft Dominance; New Jersey Reaches Settlement With Trucking Firm Over Driver Misclassification; Sonderling, DOL Secretary Nominee, Advances Out of Committee

Welcome to Labor Weekly, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Rideshare insurgents and autonomous vehicle ride platforms expanding into more markets, risk destabilizing Uber-Lyft dominance. • Trucking companies...

Jul 30, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Cargill Lockout Drags On as Teamsters Blame Beef Cartel; New York Law Meant to Expand State Oversight of Unionization Thrown Out in Win for Amazon; Trucker No-Poach Case Should be Tossed for Failed Horizontal Claims, Kroger Says

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Lockout of Teamsters-affiliated workers at Cargill Colorado meatpacking plant drags into third month; economists cite market power as source of...

Jul 23, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Union Lawsuit Over Paramount Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery is Best Path to Block Merger, Posner Says; Waymo-Legalization Bill in D.C. Targeted by Unlikely Allies in Unions, Uber, and Lyft; Labor Board Members Advance Out of Senate Committee; DOJ Defends Wage-Fixing Conviction at 9th Circuit

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Paramount Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery: Writers Guild lawsuit to block deal alleges deep labor market harms. • Waymo clashes with Uber, Lyft and...

Jul 16, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Proposed Kroger-Giant Eagle Merger Would Tighten Regional Unionized Labor Markets; USMCA Non-Renewal Presents Moment of Opportunity for Unions; Department of Labor Targets October for Independent Contractor Rule; Walmart Pays $13 Million to End Texas Labor Probe; Labor Board Affirms Bargaining Order at Amazon Staten Island Warehouse

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: • Kroger/Giant Eagle: Merger threatens to reduce union bargaining leverage in echo of aborted Albertsons deal. • USMCA non-renewal presents an...

Jul 09, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Experts Weigh in After Supreme Court Ruling on NLRB Independence; Acting DOL Secretary Nominated to Permanent Post; House Democrats Probe NLRB GC’s Potential Amazon Conflicts; Confirmation Votes on New NLRB Members Delayed

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week include: Supreme Court reversal on agency independence could stymie NLRB unconstitutionality arguments; board solicitor argues agency will still retain “zones...

Jul 02, 2026 Read Now >

California’s COMPETE Act Faces Uncertain Path Through Senate Judiciary Committee

The future of the COMPETE Act, a bill that would expand California’s antitrust law to cover single-firm conduct and has pitted labor unions and consumer advocates against the largest businesses in the state, will be decided at a make-or-break Senate Judiciary hearing on...

Jun 25, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Amazon Bargaining Order Likely Tees up Death of Cemex Precedent; State Labor Enforcers, House Dems Oppose Joint Employer Revisions; Broad Uber Sexual Assault Liability Under Spotlight in Shareholder Suit

Welcome to the Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week...

Jun 25, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: HSR Changes Aimed at Acquihires Would Harm Innovation, Labor Mobility, Tech Groups Say; Minerals, Gold Mine Newest Target of USCMA Rapid Response Mechanism; Labor Board Orders Milestone Whole Foods Union Bargaining; Teamsters and DOJ File for End to Federal Oversight

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week...

Jun 18, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: GOP Nominee to NLRB Avoids Commitments on Captive Audience, Other Standards; Macy’s Confirmation Would Allow Board to Target Precedents on Independent Contractors, Unionization Process; FLCA Passes the House; Cargill Teamsters File Unfair Labor Practice Charge

Welcome to Labor Thursday, our weekly overview of competition and labor market issues. Key stories we’re following this week...

Jun 11, 2026 Read Now >

Labor Weekly: Delivery Drivers Can Dodge Certain Arbitration Clauses, Supreme Court Rules; Pivotal Labor Board Nominee Gets Senate Hearing Date; Polis Vetoes Bill to Ban Surveillance Wages and Pricing

Supreme Court rules delivery and rideshare drivers can litigate claims, aren’t bound by forced arbitration. The Supreme Court ruled last week that a distributor transporting products without crossing state lines was engaged in interstate commerce and therefore qualified for exception...

Jun 04, 2026 Read Now >

Tech/Media/Telecom Weekly: Profit Boom for Memory Chip Oligopoly Set to Continue in Short Term as Sources in National Security Community Say Policymakers are Unlikely to Soften Stance Toward Chinese Memory Chip Companies

The TMT Weekly is a forward-looking tipsheet that covers tech policy across The Capitol Forum’s U.S. policy coverage universe, from Congress to the Courts. In this edition: National Security Outlook: Profit boom for memory chip oligopoly set to continue in short term: Sources in...

Feb 25, 2026 Read Now >

With Few Textual Requirements for USMCA Review, Trump Could Play It Safe or Go ‘Nuclear’

The text of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provides few formal requirements for next year’s review, leaving stakeholders to envision a wide range of scenarios—from small tweaks around the edges to a full-scale renegotiation—and to attempt to align their proposed changes...

Nov 10, 2025 Read Now >

Trump’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection Has Dramatically Reduced Policing of Forced Labor Violations as the Agency Focuses More Resources on Tariffs

This article has been updated with a statement from Customs and Border Protection. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) policing of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) has fallen dramatically since the act was first implemented in 2022, according to publicly available...

Sep 12, 2025 Read Now >

Labor Thursday: California Sues Packers Sanitation Services/Fortrex Over No-Poach Agreements; Labor Department Drops Enhanced Independent Contractor Enforcement; Agri Stats Wins Bid to Intervene in DOJ Wage-Fixing Settlement Brawl

Labor Thursday is a weekly overview of competition and labor market issues and includes our analysis of the timing and priorities of the key agencies overseeing enforcement and rulemaking, including the FTC, DOJ, and NLRB. This week, The Capitol Forum looks at the California attorney...

May 08, 2025 Read Now >

Labor Thursday: Google Workers’ Union Asks to Weigh In on Search Remedies; Slater Highlights Vertical Restraints as Potentially Harmful to Workers; Unions Push California on Adoption of Updated Antitrust Laws; Labor Weekly Litigation Tracker Updates

Labor Thursday is a weekly overview of competition and labor market issues and includes our analysis of the timing and priorities of the key agencies overseeing enforcement and rulemaking, including the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, and National Labor Relations Board. This...

May 01, 2025 Read Now >

Labor Thursday: Amazon Hit with Labor Board Complaint Seeking Recognition of Teamsters Warehouse Unit; DOJ Fights to Hold on to Criminal Wage-Fixing Win Amid Mistrial Bid; NCAA Settlement Needs Roster Limits Fix, Judge Says; CVS’ Signify Transitions Some Independent Contractors to Employees

Labor Thursday is a weekly overview of competition and labor market issues and includes our analysis of the timing and priorities of the key agencies overseeing enforcement and rulemaking, including the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, and National Labor Relations Board. This...

Apr 24, 2025 Read Now >

Labor Thursday: Justice Department Wins First-Ever Criminal Labor Conspiracy Trial Verdict; Judge Rules Burger King Must Face Long-Running No-Poach Lawsuit; Democrats Seek Answers About Mine Safety, Federal Contracting Compliance Cuts

Labor Thursday is a weekly overview of competition and labor market issues and includes our analysis of the timing and priorities of the key agencies overseeing enforcement and rulemaking, including the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, and National Labor Relations Board. This...

Apr 17, 2025 Read Now >

Labor Thursday: Chief Justice Steps in to Keep Fired NLRB Member Off Board; Google Workers Win End to Antitrust Speech Restrictions; NCAA Athlete Settlement Snags; Raytheon No-Poach Suit Nears Final Deal; Teamsters Workers Meet with Slater

Labor Thursday is a weekly overview of competition and labor market issues and includes our analysis of the timing and priorities of the key agencies overseeing enforcement and rulemaking, including the Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department, and National Labor Relations Board. This...

Apr 10, 2025 Read Now >