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David Seligman is Director of Towards Justice in Denver, Colorado. There, he litigates cases on behalf of low-wage workers attacking labor market abuses like wage theft and antitrust violations. He's also a Contributing Author at the National Consumer Law Center, where he writes on forced arbitration of consumer and employment disputes.

Protecting Worker Power with Antitrust

Feb 19, 2019 David Seligman and Brian Shearer

Workers principally have two ways to exercise power in the labor market: exit and voice (as labor scholar and former Department of Labor Administrator David Weil has explained). Labor law is concerned with worker voice, namely the right of workers to engage in concerted action to exercise power in their workplace. But worker exit is […]

Ten Steps Toward a More Competitive Labor Market

Jul 11, 2018 Sharon Block, David Seligman and Benjamin Elga

This piece was originally published by the Biden Forum. There is no doubt that workers’ bargaining power is on the decline. Workers aren’t seeing the increase in wages that they’ve been waiting for since the end of the Great Recession. Notwithstanding historically low unemployment numbers, wages for American workers in “production and nonsupervisory” positions actually […]

A Response to “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization”

Apr 20, 2018 Terri Gerstein and David Seligman

In his recent post, “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization,” Ben Levin argues that “the impulse to use criminal law for ‘progressive’ ends”—like combatting wage theft—“is dangerous; it serves to bolster the carceral state and all of its deep structural flaws.” We write from the perspectives of lawyers who have had extensive experience protecting workers’ rights, one […]

Kap, Collusion, and Labor Market Competition

Oct 16, 2017 David Seligman

There are only a few dozen people on the planet who can play QB in the NFL. Colin Kaepernick is one of them. Yet, even though he’s expressed an eagerness to return to the playing field, Kaepernick has now been passed over for QB positions on several clubs. Many NFL stars--including Tom Brady, Richard Sherman, and Brandon Weedon (who was recently hired over Kaepernick for the Ravens’ backup role)--are convinced that Kap’s got the talent to be on the field. If that’s true, then why is he still out of work?

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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Protecting Worker Power with Antitrust

Ten Steps Toward a More Competitive Labor Market

A Response to “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization”

Kap, Collusion, and Labor Market Competition