![Now that the General Motors strike is over, it’s a good time to reflect on how a recent Trump NLRB decision creates perverse incentives to unnecessarily prolong strikes. In July, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., without any meaningful analysis, the Trump NLRB members decided that when workers go on strike, they […]](https://i1.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/skyler-gerald-qADoh-Ag7s0-unsplash.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
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![In early 2017, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce put out its top 10 wish list for changes it wanted to see at the National Labor Relations Board. It took a little while for the NLRB to get going on the Chamber’s agenda, because President Trump’s corporate appointees needed to get […]](https://i0.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/chamberofcommerce.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![During the oral arguments in Bostock v. Clayton County and R&G and G&R Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, Justices Alito and Gorsuch gave credence to the contention that the Court would be acting as a legislative body if it ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is […]](https://i1.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/civil-rights-for-all.jpeg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![Harvard University’s graduate student union (HGSU-UAW) has announced that they will hold a strike authorization vote beginning October 15. A two-thirds vote of the membership will allow the negotiating committee to call a strike. I thought it might be useful to reiterate two very basic points in the lead-up to […]](https://i1.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/new-york-county-courthouse-1540991328RMS.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
![On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a group of cases that will determine whether Title VII’s prohibition against discrimination because of sex extends to discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity. The unifying theme was division. Headlines from SCOTUSblog, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, BBC, […]](https://i0.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/17113905179_4de122e0e5_b.jpg?resize=1024%2C580&ssl=1)
![In 2016, Donald Trump was able to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in part by promising that he would care about the needs of regular working people. But as 2020 approaches, Trump’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are making it much harder for him to run for re-election […]](https://i0.wp.com/onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ramon-kagie-zwubIscXYzw-unsplash.jpg?resize=1400%2C912&ssl=1)
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 13, 2019
A former McDonald’s employee is suing the company for its pervasive culture of sexual harassment. Plaintiff Jenna Ries alleges that she was frequently harassed by her manager while working at a McDonald’s in Mason, Michigan b... More »
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News & Commentary — Nov 12, 2019
Yesterday, workers at Hearst Magazines announced plans to form a union with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). Union organizers told The Daily Beast that they spent over a year building support across 24 Hearst-owned ... More »
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News & Commentary — Nov 11, 2019
Mental health care workers at Kaiser Permanente decided to postpone their planned strike when the company’s CEO Bernard Tyson passed away yesterday. Tyson was 60 years old and passed in his sleep. The strike was planned... More »
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Weekend News & Commentary — Nov 10, 2019
The “shoppers” who complete Instacart grocery delivery orders went on strike this week, alleging significant problems with the app’s structure that are familiar throughout the gig economy. As independent contractors, the shop... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 8, 2019
Staff at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a historic civil rights organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, are forming a union. Yesterday, the News Guild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America, deliv... More »
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Interview with ACLU’s James Esseks on Bostock and Harris
On the latest episode of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review‘s podcast Taking Liberties, Emily Morrow and I spoke to James Esseks, Director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, about his thoughts ... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 7, 2019
On Tuesday, the Seventh Circuit held that government employees who paid agency fees to public sector unions cannot recover fees collected prior to the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. The plaintiff in Tuesda... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary—November 6, 2019
On Tuesday, Harvard’s graduate student union announced that it will strike if the University fails to agree to what the union deems a fair contract agreement by December 3, the final day of classes for the fall semester. In a... More »
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Today’s News & Commentary — November 5, 2019
After McDonald’s fired its CEO Steve Easterbrook for a relationship with an employee that violated corporate policy, its top human resources officer, David Fairhurst, has also departed as the fast-food giant faces renew... More »
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Labor Law Should Encourage Short Strikes
Now that the General Motors strike is over, it’s a good time to reflect on how a recent Trump NLRB decision creates perverse incentives to unnecessarily prolong strikes. In July, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., without any meanin... More »
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