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Andrew Strom is a union lawyer based in New York City. He is also an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.

GOP Senators Owe Judge Sung an Apology

Jan 19, 2022 Andrew Strom

In December, the Senate confirmed Jennifer Sung to a seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by a 50-49 vote along party lines. Sung had been serving as one of the three members of the Oregon Employment Relations Board, a state agency that oversees labor relations in the public sector. During her four-year tenure […]

Jon Gruden and Labor Law Traps

Oct 19, 2021 Andrew Strom

When I talk to union organizers, I often remind them that labor law is full of traps for the unwary, and the recent resignation of Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach Jon Gruden reminded me of one of those traps. Gruden resigned in the wake of revelations that he had sent e-mails containing racist, sexist, and […]

In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are

Aug 25, 2021 Andrew Strom

In 2019, I wrote about how the NLRB’s decision in Ridgewood Health Care Centertook away one of the few effective remedies for employer misconduct. This was a case where a new employer took over a business and refused to hire the predecessor’s employees to avoid a bargaining obligation with the workers’ union. The old remedy […]

The Court’s Cedar Point Opinion – Haven’t I Seen This Movie Before?

Jun 30, 2021 Andrew Strom

When the current Supreme Court decides a labor case, it’s like watching top film stars in the third sequel to a movie franchise – you know how it’s going to turn out and you also know that you’re not going to see their best work. The 6-3 decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid is […]

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 […]

In Cedar Point, Will the Supreme Court Rewrite the Fifth Amendment?

Jan 27, 2021 Andrew Strom

This spring, the Supreme Court will hear a case, Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, challenging a forty-five year old California regulation that gives union organizers limited access to growers’ private property to talk to farmworkers during non-work time. Access matters because there are no public sidewalks adjoining the fields and farmworkers are typically transported to […]

The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Oct 28, 2020 Andrew Strom

If Joe Biden wins the Presidential election and the Democrats win control of the Senate, then the Trump National Labor Relations Board will soon be just a bad memory. But, the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision in Davidson Hotel Co. v. NLRB is a reminder that changing the composition of the NLRB will not, by itself, […]

Amy Coney Barrett is as Anti-Worker as the Rest of Trump’s Judges

Oct 7, 2020 Andrew Strom

The media is giving so much attention to how the next Supreme Court Justice may affect the continued vitality of Roe v. Wade that voters may not fully appreciate how yet another Donald Trump appointee on the court will cement the Court’s anti-worker tilt for decades. On one level, Judge Barrett’s nomination is less significant […]

Peter Robb’s Vacuous Attack on Voluntary Recognition Agreements

Sep 21, 2020 Andrew Strom

Thanks to Donald Trump and Republican Senators, Peter Robb is the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, the most powerful position at the agency. Robb oversees the hundreds of lawyers and investigators who are charged with protecting the rights of workers “to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives […]

Yet Another Reason Why We Need a Clean Slate for Labor Law

Aug 11, 2020 Andrew Strom

If there is a silver lining in the efforts of Donald Trump’s appointees to crank out as many anti-worker decisions as possible at the National Labor Relations Board, it is that each new decision highlights the need for a fundamental overhaul of our labor laws. Buried in a footnote in a blizzard of decisions issued […]

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OnLabor

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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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GOP Senators Owe Judge Sung an Apology

Jon Gruden and Labor Law Traps

In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are

The Court’s Cedar Point Opinion – Haven’t I Seen This Movie Before?

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

In Cedar Point, Will the Supreme Court Rewrite the Fifth Amendment?

The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Amy Coney Barrett is as Anti-Worker as the Rest of Trump’s Judges

Peter Robb’s Vacuous Attack on Voluntary Recognition Agreements

Yet Another Reason Why We Need a Clean Slate for Labor Law