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Andrew Strom is an Associate General Counsel of Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ in New York, NY.

Can Someone Please Teach Senator Alexander Some Labor Law?

Jul 18, 2017 Andrew Strom

When the statements of a United States Senator lead to the conclusion that he is either ignorant or acting in bad faith, I think the more charitable approach is to assume that the Senator is simply uninformed. And, after watching Senator Lamar Alexander, the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pension (“HELP”) Committee […]

Competing Visions of Labor Law

Jul 11, 2017 Andrew Strom

Two recent circuit court decisions highlight how much the composition of the Board and the courts affects rights protected by the National Labor Relations Act. One case, MikLin Enterprises v. NLRB, addressed whether workers at a Jimmy John’s franchise had lost the protection of the Act when they circulated posters with two identical images of […]

You Call That a Hearing?

Jun 22, 2017 Andrew Strom

The Republicans have rightly been criticized for refusing to hold hearings on their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but even when they do hold Congressional hearings, the only benefit to the public is to reveal how little they seem to care about fact-finding. Last week, the House of Representatives held a hearing on […]

Workers Understand a Boss’s “Hopes”

Jun 9, 2017 Andrew Strom

According to the sworn testimony of former FBI Director James Comey, President Trump pulled him into a private meeting in the oval office and said, about the FBI’s ongoing investigation of former national security advisor Michael Flynn, “I hope you can let this go.” One question raised by the testimony is whether it was reasonable […]

Expanding the Workers’ Bill of Rights

May 31, 2017 Andrew Strom

I recently proposed a Workers’ Bill of Rights, and invited others to respond with suggestions for other rights that should be included. I did receive some helpful comments, and in response I would propose adding three additional rights to the ones I had previously proposed: A Right to Strike and Engage in Other Concerted Actions: […]

Workers Need a Bill of Rights

May 24, 2017 Andrew Strom

Except for about a month in the summer of 2009 when the Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate, for the entire twenty-first century any proposal to substantially increase workers’ rights at the national level has had to be prefaced by the comment that, “of course, this is not politically feasible now.” But rather than […]

Do Workers Realize How Much Collective Bargaining Scares Employers?

May 16, 2017 Andrew Strom

In February, teaching fellows in eight departments at Yale University voted in favor of union representation. Rather than bargain with the teaching fellows’ union, Yale has insisted upon first exhausting its appeals, apparently hoping that Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-named appointees to the National Labor Relations Board will come to its rescue. In the meantime, some of […]

Beware of Judge Gorsuch’s Profoundly Anti-Democratic, Anti-Regulatory Vision

Apr 7, 2017 Andrew Strom

Not surprisingly, at Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing, the Democratic Senators didn’t succeed in getting Judge Gorsuch to reveal much about his views. Instead, Gorsuch insisted that “if I were to start telling you which are my favorite precedents or which are my least favorite precedents or view it in that fashion, I would be tipping […]

Those Job Crushing Regulations

Mar 20, 2017 Andrew Strom

Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress love to refer to regulations as “job crushing.” When Trump spoke recently at the Conservative Political Action Conference he not only said that companies can’t hire because of regulations, but he also said that “we’re going to put the regulation industry out of work and out of business.” […]

Alex Acosta’s Sympathies

Mar 6, 2017 Andrew Strom

We still have a lot to learn about Alex Acosta, Donald Trump’s new nominee for Labor Secretary, but one case he ruled on during his brief stint at the National Labor Relations Board suggests that, not surprisingly for a Trump appointee, he is likely to favor employers over workers when faced with a close question. […]

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Can Someone Please Teach Senator Alexander Some Labor Law?

Competing Visions of Labor Law

You Call That a Hearing?

Workers Understand a Boss’s “Hopes”

Expanding the Workers’ Bill of Rights

Workers Need a Bill of Rights

Do Workers Realize How Much Collective Bargaining Scares Employers?

Beware of Judge Gorsuch’s Profoundly Anti-Democratic, Anti-Regulatory Vision

Those Job Crushing Regulations

Alex Acosta’s Sympathies