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Kate Andrias is the Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy

Apr 1, 2025 Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

This post was originally published on Fireside Stacks. Ezra Klein argues in his recent op-ed (and at greater length in his compelling new book with Derek Thompson) that a central problem facing Democrats is the crisis of scarcity. According to Klein, the places where Democrats govern are unaffordable because rules and political cultures constrain production […]

Labor’s Constitutional Vision in the Face of Capital’s Attack

May 20, 2024 Kate Andrias

Kate Andrias on labor's way forward through a re-emerging constitutional clash.

A New Path for Unionizing Uber and Lyft

Dec 6, 2023 Kate Andrias, Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

Kate Andrias, Sharon Block, and Ben Sachs on Massachusetts' recent efforts to help rideshare workers unionize.

NDWA-Handy Pilot: Major Gains for Workers Long Excluded from Labor Law’s Protections

Jun 17, 2021 Kate Andrias and Benjamin Sachs

Today, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) announced a new pilot program for domestic workers who use the Handy platform. The pilot, which will run in three states (Florida, Kentucky, and Indiana), is a victory for thousands of workers, nearly all women of color, who are denied even the minimal protections of traditional labor and […]

Lawmakers Should Oppose New York’s Uber Bill: Workers need real sectoral bargaining not company unionism

May 26, 2021 Kate Andrias, Mike Firestone and Benjamin Sachs

Uber and other gig companies are rushing to pass a bill in the final weeks of Albany’s legislative session that would undermine labor standards for the growing millions of app-based workers, the majority of whom are immigrants and people of color. The companies, in an attempt to harness the interest among worker advocates in “sectoral […]

Law and Organizing for Countervailing Power

Mar 26, 2021 Kate Andrias and Benjamin Sachs

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project Blog. Readers of this blog need no reminder of the pervasive inequalities that define American society. Nor do readers need to be convinced that a perverse concentration of wealth has had profoundly corrosive effects on the viability of American democracy. In a […]

Guest Post: Collective Bargaining As We Know It Can Still Work, But It Is Not Enough

Feb 1, 2017 Kate Andrias

Kate Andrias is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Andrew Strom takes issue with labor supporters who are “arguing that collective bargaining is dead and unions need to find something new to replace it.” He argues that passing a series of local minimum wage ordinances “is no substitute for collective […]

Guest Post: Against Despair

Dec 2, 2016 Kate Andrias

Kate Andrias is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. This post is part of a series on Labor in the Trump Years. As others have written, including on this blog, the Trump presidency could be devastating for unions—and for workers generally. The administration is likely to oppose any increase to the […]

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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Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy

Labor’s Constitutional Vision in the Face of Capital’s Attack

A New Path for Unionizing Uber and Lyft

NDWA-Handy Pilot: Major Gains for Workers Long Excluded from Labor Law’s Protections

Lawmakers Should Oppose New York’s Uber Bill: Workers need real sectoral bargaining not company unionism

Law and Organizing for Countervailing Power

Guest Post: Collective Bargaining As We Know It Can Still Work, But It Is Not Enough

Guest Post: Against Despair