OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Author:Kevin Vazquez

Kevin Vazquez is a staff attorney at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2023. The opinions he expresses on this blog are his own and should not be attributed to the IBT.

It Might Not Matter If the NLRA Is “Unconstitutional”

Nov 21, 2024 Kevin Vazquez

As far as federal agencies go, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), established in 1935, is of relatively ancient vintage, and its constitutionality was affirmed long ago in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Even so, with the administrative state under assault and stare decisis in retreat, renewed challenges to the NLRA’s constitutionality are increasingly in vogue. As John has detailed for OnLabor, […]

Can Trump Fire Biden’s NLRB Appointees?

Nov 18, 2024 Kevin Vazquez

There is little doubt what a second Trump administration portends for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). As his first term (and first, second, and third campaigns) indicated, labor law is not a particular area of policy interest for Trump, despite his and his party’s claims to represent the interests of the working class. Thus, […]

Is Joe Biden the Most Pro-Union President You’ve Ever Seen?

Nov 9, 2023 Jason Vazquez and Kevin Vazquez

Jason Vazquez and Kevin Vazquez on whether President Biden has delivered on his promise to be the most pro-union president to date.

I Guess You Can Go to Jail for Violating the NLRA

Sep 19, 2023 Kevin Vazquez

In a rare occurrence, two employers were taken into custody after repeatedly violating the NLRA.

Policy Blueprint for Next Republican President Offers Nothing to Workers

Sep 18, 2023 Kevin Vazquez and Jason Vazquez

The Heritage Foundation's policy blueprint for the next Republican President would do little to empower working people.

February 5, 2023
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday night, Disney World workers in Orlando overwhelmingly rejected Disney’s latest offer for a five-year contract. Unions that represent the 32,000 workers—ride operators, performers, restaurant and retail employees, bus drivers, and custodians—announced that 96 percent of the workers who cast votes voted against Disney’s contract offer. The previous three-year contract expired in October, and, […]

January 22, 2023
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

As Bloomberg detailed on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, next in line to chair the powerful Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), has not given up on last year’s struggle to secure sick leave for railway workers. According to Bloomberg, Sanders is quietly planning to introduce legislation in the coming months that would require rail carriers […]

December 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

One year ago last Friday, on December 9, 2021, Starbucks workers in a Buffalo, New York store became the first in the country to unionize, joining the independent union Workers United. Since then, union organizers and workers have been waging a tumultuous nationwide campaign against the company, which has fervently (and often illegally) resisted. The […]

November 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Dems seal control of the Senate; tentative rail agreement might fail; and union news about airline pilots, publishing-house workers, and Wells Fargo employees

What Glacier Argues in Its Merits Brief

Nov 9, 2022 Kevin Vazquez and Jason Vazquez

A summary of the employer’s main arguments in the Supreme Court’s big labor case

1
2
3
…
7
Older

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.

Learn more about OnLabor

OnLabor is unable to accept unsolicited submissions.

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Contact: [email protected]
Site design: Jon White Studio

Sections

All Editorial Writing
All News & Commentary
From The Editor
From Senior Contributors
Analysis From Guest Voices
OnLabor In The News
All Featured Coverage
About

Connect

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Search for:

It Might Not Matter If the NLRA Is “Unconstitutional”

Can Trump Fire Biden’s NLRB Appointees?

Is Joe Biden the Most Pro-Union President You’ve Ever Seen?

I Guess You Can Go to Jail for Violating the NLRA

Policy Blueprint for Next Republican President Offers Nothing to Workers

February 5, 2023

January 22, 2023

December 11, 2022

November 13, 2022

What Glacier Argues in Its Merits Brief