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Does Ownership Mean Absolute Dominion?

Apr 13, 2021 Ross Slaughter

In State v. Shack, New Jersey’s Supreme Court declared it “unthinkable” that property rights entitled agricultural employers to “isolate the migrant worker in any respect significant for the worker’s well-being.” Last month, in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, two agribusinesses asked the U.S. Supreme Court to do the unthinkable. They claim that a California regulation […]

As Growers Swing for the Fences in Cedar Point, Will They Strike Out?

Mar 29, 2021 Andrew Strom

At the Supreme Court oral argument in Cedar Point Nursery v. Haddid, Joshua Thompson, the lawyer representing the growers, staked out a revolutionary interpretation of the Fifth Amendment’s “takings” clause, while simultaneously insisting that accepting his theory would have hardly any real world consequences. When the Justices offered him a narrower path to victory, he […]

September 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

Senate Republicans on Thursday fell short of the votes necessary to pass their proposed $300 billion coronavirus aid package. As the blog has reported in recent days, the Democrat-dubbed “skinny bill” was the first measure to secure the support of most Senate Republicans, who have remained divided for months over the provisions of the next […]

January 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Sunday is day 22 of the shutdown. Furloughed federal employees will receive back pay for these days, as approved by the House and Senate late last week. Contractors’ back pay will be attended to in separate legislation, now pending. As the Washington Post explains, employees in unpaid status who must show up to work are […]

October 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

On Saturday afternoon, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 50-48 vote is among the closest in history, and the tenor of battles over Kavanaugh’s fitness revealed and further rived a divided a country. Much commentary on the process anticipates the outcomes of a conservative bloc, as well […]

June 3, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Boeing pursues an NLRB appeal of the unionization vote of a “micro unit” of plant workers in Charleston, South Carolina; before the vote, the NLRB had made an anti-union reversal a little more likely. As Bloomberg Law reported on Friday, an ethics official found Member William Emanuel (R) could participate in the Boeing case, despite […]

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OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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