![After eighteen months of highly collaborative work involving over seventy academics, organizers, lawyers, and students from around the world, we released this morning the report and recommendations of the Clean Slate for Worker Power project. You can learn all about the project at cleanslateworkerpower.org. Our full Report is available here, […]](https://i0.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/clean-slate.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
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![In the new Board’s first decision of the post-McFerran era, United Parcel Service, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 1 (2019), the Board’s three Republican members overturn yet another Obama Board decision. This time, the Republican-only Board has taken on arbitral deferral standards, reversing the Board’s 2014 decision in Babcock & Wilcox […]](https://i0.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dissent-resize.png?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![Two of the key talking points Republicans in the House of Representatives repeated endlessly in defense of Donald Trump were that Trump did not directly threaten Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the July 25th telephone call, and Zelensky later said that he didn’t feel pressured by Trump. A landmark 50-year-old […]](https://i0.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ukraine.jpg?resize=1024%2C716&ssl=1)
![As Ryan reported yesterday, the Board has overruled Purple Communications and held that employees—in most circumstances—may not use an employer’s email system to communicate about unionization or other section 7 activity. The effects of this decision (Rio All-Suites Hotel) are likely to be significant given the fact that, in many workplaces, […]](https://i1.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/webaroo-com-au-3Mhgvrk4tjM-unsplash.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![According to the Crimson, Harvard has circulated an email advising departments seeking to hire spring teaching fellows (and other student workers) to include certain language in job postings and offer letters. The Crimson reports that the email “recommends departments include a provision in postings and offer letters that conditions teaching […]](https://i1.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/picket.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, the question of the role of labor in finding solutions also becomes more urgent. As OnLabor has tracked, significant parts of the labor movement have expressed support for the climate fight. Labor groups joined the Global Climate Strikes this fall. Numerous alliances […]](https://i2.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/li-an-lim-ycW4YxhrWHM-unsplash.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
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Weekend News & Commentary— January 26, 2020
This week, the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School released their Clean Slate for Worker Power, a report re-imagining, rebalancing, and re-vitalizing labor law. The report spans more than 100 pages, outlining a r... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary — January 24, 2020
California has experienced significant union growth—139,000 workers were unionized in the past year. 16.5% of California’s workforce is now unionized. Steve Smith, spokesman for the California Labor Federation, said, “We’re s... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary — January 23, 2019
OnLabor’s own Ben Sachs and Sharon Block have launched their recommendations for building a new labor law. As Sharon and Ben explain in a Newsweek op-ed, the recommendations are the culmination of the Clean Slate for Worker ... More »
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A Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy
After eighteen months of highly collaborative work involving over seventy academics, organizers, lawyers, and students from around the world, we released this morning the report and recommendations of the Clean Slate for Work... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary – January 22, 2020
In an effort to reach young people interested in careers in security, policing, or the military, the U.S. Border Patrol continues to offer a program for 14-to-20-year-olds called Border Patrol Explorers that has been in exist... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary – January 21, 2020
Bloomberg Law reports that teacher strikes across the U.S. have led to higher bargained-for wages over the past two years. In 2018, teachers and other school staff across West Virginia went on strike to protest working condit... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary – January 20, 2020
In a major win for the University of California, Berkeley, student union, the university must pay $5 million – 8 million in back pay. The United Auto Workers Local 2865, the union that includes teaching assistants, grad... More »
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Weekend News & Commentary— January 19, 2020
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). The act would make it easier for older workers suing under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary—January 17, 2020
Working-class candidates are making personal and financial sacrifices to run for office, despite campaign guidelines specifically intended to make it easier for them to quit their jobs and run. A 2002 Federal Election Commiss... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary — January 16, 2020
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Babb v. Wilkie. The question before the Court was whether federal workers alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must show that th... More »
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