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Marina Multhaup is a Senior Associate at Barnard, Iglitzin & Lavitt—a law firm in Seattle, Washington, that represents unions, and a former student member of the Labor and Employment Lab at Harvard Law.

A Labor Agency with No Labor Board

May 9, 2025 Marina Multhaup

No one knows what will happen to labor in the coming years under the hostile Trump administration. Trump has already fired NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo, unlawfully fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox, and unlawfully attempted to strip collective bargaining rights from thousands of public employees. We can expect the Trump Administration might take further actions to undermine […]

Hollywood Unions Take on AI—and Win

Nov 15, 2023 Marina Multhaup

Marina Multhaup on the recent efforts of Hollywood unions to protect against the rise of AI.

April 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

A recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found a significant and growing racial wealth gap between Black and white millennials. In 2016, the St. Louis Fed found that a typical millennial household had 40% less wealth than previous generations had at the same age. Re-visiting millennials three years later, the Study […]

Organizing Through a Pandemic: Tartine Bakery Union

Apr 19, 2021 Marina Multhaup

On February 6th, 2020, 146 bakers, dishwashers, prep cooks, servers, bussers, and baristas announced their intention to unionize Tartine Bakery in California. On March 13th they voted. Three days later the U.S. shut down and all of their organizing and efforts were thrown into question. 377 days later the NLRB announced that the union had […]

April 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

On Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Daunte Wright was shot to death by police. Daunte Wright was a 20-year-old Black man who was killed during a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was described by his brother as someone who would “give you the shirt off his back.” The police officer who killed Daunte Wright, Kim […]

Scabby: The Law of the Rat

Apr 9, 2021 Marina Multhaup

What has sharp teeth, blood-shot eyes, festering nails, looms twelve feet tall, but doesn’t look mean enough to be threatening? Though it might seem like an unlikely subject of cutting-edge labor and constitutional law, the union’s inflatable rat balloon called Scabby has been at the center of these disputes for over a decade. Scabby has […]

March 31, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

As Zachary noted yesterday, voting has begun in Bessemer. Over Zoom, with representatives from Amazon and the RWDSU watching, the NLRB is counting ballots from workers in Amazon’s warehouse to see whether they have decided to unionize. Dave Jamieson at the Huffington Post writes that it could be months before the election has a clear […]

Race and Exclusion in the Cedar Point Takings Case

Mar 18, 2021 Marina Multhaup

Next week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, where it will consider whether a 1975 rule by California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Board allowing union organizers intermittent access to employers’ property constitutes a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment. The case is odd because the California Supreme Court already declared […]

March 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

After a major legal defeat in Britain, Uber announced it will reclassify more than 70,000 UK drivers as “workers,” which will entitle the drivers to minimum wage, vacation pay and a pension plan. In February 2021 the British Supreme Court ruled that Uber behaved more like an employer than a “technology company” because it assigned […]

Why the Labor Movement Should Fight for Prison Abolition

Mar 4, 2021 Marina Multhaup

It’s time the labor movement embraces abolition: for the sake of its membership and in order to create the world it wants to build. Labor can’t realize its goals without abolishing prisons and prison abolitionists can’t build the world we need without a strong labor movement. The labor movement doesn’t just fight for better wages, […]

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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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A Labor Agency with No Labor Board

Hollywood Unions Take on AI—and Win

April 28, 2021

Organizing Through a Pandemic: Tartine Bakery Union

April 14, 2021

Scabby: The Law of the Rat

March 31, 2021

Race and Exclusion in the Cedar Point Takings Case

March 17, 2021

Why the Labor Movement Should Fight for Prison Abolition