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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.

Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

Jul 14, 2020 Andrew Strom

I recently wrote about how the Trump National Labor Relations Board has allowed employers to fire workers for urging their co-workers to vote for unionization during working time. On the heels of that decision, the Trump appointees gave employers another tool to silence workers. Last month, in California Commerce Club, Inc.,the NLRB held that where […]

Trump Appointees Keep Chipping Away at Workers’ Rights

Jun 23, 2020 Andrew Strom

Sometimes it seems like the judges and NLRB Members that Donald Trump has appointed are playing a game of Jenga when it comes to workers’ rights. They keep pulling out one small block at a time, and each move doesn’t seem that significant, but those of us watching closely are holding our breath waiting to […]

Dissent in Exile: Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 NLRB No. 91 (May 29, 2020)

Jun 8, 2020 Andrew Strom

What’s the difference between talking about whether a union is good or bad, and encouraging a co-worker to vote for or against union representation? I don’t know either, but the National Labor Relations Board has just held that an employer may categorically prohibit the latter type of conversation during work time even though it must […]

The Power of Collective Action

May 25, 2020 Andrew Strom

On May Day, workers at Amazon, Instacart, and Target went out on strike, primarily over health and safety concerns. While the strikes garnered a lot of media attention, it’s not clear how many workers participated, and it does not appear that they have led to any changes in company policies. When workers start to organize, […]

Dissent in Exile: Baylor University Medical Center, 369 NLRB No. 43 (March 16, 2020)

Mar 24, 2020 Andrew Strom

While the rest of the country has been trying to unite to fight COVID-19, Donald Trump’s appointees at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have continued their relentless march to strip workers of their rights and to weaken the agency they preside over. Despite the substantive disagreements that Board Members have had over the years, […]

What Labor Law Teaches Us About Trump’s Defenses

Dec 20, 2019 Andrew Strom

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 Supreme Court labor law case, […]

The Trump NLRB’s Stealth Blow Against Campus Solidarity

Nov 19, 2019 Andrew Strom

The Trump NLRB is receiving comments on its proposed rule to exclude university teaching and research assistants who are also graduate students from the coverage of the National Labor Relations Act. That proposal has generated a fair amount of media coverage and teaching and research assistants across the country have been organizing to submit comments […]

Labor Law Should Encourage Short Strikes

Nov 4, 2019 Andrew Strom

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 have only two choices: withhold […]

No One is Asking the Court to Act Like a Legislature in Bostock and Harris

Oct 17, 2019 Andrew Strom

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 a form of sex discrimination. […]

Trump’s Own NLRB May Doom His Re-election Chances

Sep 24, 2019 Andrew Strom

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 as the workers’ friend. Organizing […]

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

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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Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

Trump Appointees Keep Chipping Away at Workers’ Rights

Dissent in Exile: Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 NLRB No. 91 (May 29, 2020)

The Power of Collective Action

Dissent in Exile: Baylor University Medical Center, 369 NLRB No. 43 (March 16, 2020)

What Labor Law Teaches Us About Trump’s Defenses

The Trump NLRB’s Stealth Blow Against Campus Solidarity

Labor Law Should Encourage Short Strikes

No One is Asking the Court to Act Like a Legislature in Bostock and Harris

Trump’s Own NLRB May Doom His Re-election Chances