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We Should Be Worried About a Google-Spirit Deal

Oct 14, 2026 Allie Reed

When Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. collapsed this spring, 17,000 flight attendants, pilots, and workers lost their jobs. The decades of emails, Teams chats, grievances, and safety reports left behind are now up for sale. Google has agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit’s internal records, saying it wants to use the data to improve its […]

New Tools for Combatting Forced Labor

Oct 9, 2026 Charity Ryerson and James Yap

Our colleague Aaron Halegua recently authored a two-part series on using legal advocacy tools in the US to combat forced labor outside the US. In this post, we explore the reverse angle: using legal advocacy tools outside the US to combat forced labor inside the U.S. We hope to illustrate that forced labor is a […]

New Labor Initiatives Under Evolving Policy Considerations

Oct 8, 2026 The Regulatory Review and Patrick Carney

In a conversation with The Regulatory Review, Kate Andrias discusses novel state worker-protection initiatives, federal preemption of state labor law, constitutional challenges to federal labor law, and obstacles to labor organizing. You can find the original interview here. The Regulatory Review: What are worker standards boards, what purpose do they serve, and what distinguishes them from […]

The Successor Bar: A Test for Board Policymaking After Loper Bright

Oct 7, 2026 Kaitlin Knocke

Two years after Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturned Chevron, its impact on labor law is beginning to take shape, most recently in Hospital Menonita De Guayama v. NLRB. As previous writers on the blog have detailed, Loper Bright has not had the immediate impact on labor law that some predicted. Hospital Menonita may be […]

The Protect College Sports Act is a Bad Deal for Athletes

Oct 6, 2026 Ethan Story

Last week, after months of negotiating, the Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) by an overwhelming 77-22 vote. Co-authored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the PCSA proposes a remarkable degree of federal regulation for an industry that officials said just a few years ago should operate as a free […]

Should Labor Support Labor Preemption?

Oct 5, 2026 Benjamin Sachs

We recently ran Lynn’s excellent piece on sectoral bargaining, and in that piece, she raises some important concerns about reforming (or ending) labor preemption. I agree with almost everything Lynn says. She is right that “[c]hanging the rules on preemption might open the door to pro-worker reforms in Blue states, but it would also open […]

Building Toward Sectoral Bargaining – Yes We Can!

Sep 18, 2026 Lynn Rhinehart

Last week, OnLabor ran my piece on how we could build up to sectoral bargaining in the U.S. through federal labor law reforms that facilitate workers’ ability to form unions and demand multi-employer bargaining. I got plenty of comments and reactions to the piece – mostly positive, a few not. But many of the comments […]

Can Workers Wear Union T-Shirts? The Second Circuit Says it’s Complicated

Sep 14, 2026 Andrew Strom

The right to wear union insignia on the job has been one of the most heavily litigated labor law questions. This is somewhat surprising because the one Supreme Court case that addressed the issue, Republic Aviaton Corp. v. NLRB, upheld the National Labor Relations Board’s determination that “the right of employees to wear union insignia […]

Tesla Outlasted the World’s Strongest Union Movement

Sep 9, 2026 German Bender

The historic Tesla strike ended on 19 August, after 1,027 days. On 27 October 2023, some 40 mechanics walked out of 10 workshops across Sweden. Nearly three years later, their union, IF Metall, has not achieved its goal: a collective agreement with Tesla’s Swedish subsidiary, TM Sweden.

Building Toward Sectoral Bargaining

Sep 8, 2026 Lynn Rhinehart

It’s no secret that our weak, outdated labor law is failing the millions of workers who want unions at their workplaces. Republicans have repeatedly blocked federal legislation to strengthen the law. This untenable situation has been made worse by President Trump destroying the independence of the National Labor Relations Board, firing Gwynne Wilcox and installing […]

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