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Melissa Greenberg is a student at Harvard Law School.

February 16, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

Employees at Boeing’s South Carolina plant voted against unionization yesterday. The company stated that 74 percent of employees who cast votes in the election voted against the union. The International Association of Machinists’ lead organizer, Mike Evans, released a Facebook video statement saying that the workers had determined that “at this time they don’t need representation.” […]

Supreme Court Postpones Hearing Class Action Waiver Cases

Feb 13, 2017 Melissa Greenberg

This post is part of OnLabor’s continuing analysis of National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA. As reported by Law360, the Supreme Court has informed the parties in Murphy Oil, Ernst & Young, and Epic Systems that the Court will postpone oral argument until next term, which begins in October 2017. The Court granted […]

NLRB General Counsel Directs Regions to Wait on Class Arbitration Cases Until Murphy Oil Is Decided

Feb 8, 2017 Melissa Greenberg

This post is part of OnLabor’s continuing analysis of National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA. As reported in JD Supra, the General Counsel’s office of the National Labor Relations Board has issued a memorandum to regional offices in response to the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in Murphy Oil, Ernst & Young, and Epic […]

February 2, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

The Washington Post reports that the hold up in scheduling Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder’s Senate hearing is due to the nominee’s difficulties in separating from CKE Restaurants. Puzder wanted to transfer his CKE holdings to a blind trust, but the Office of Government Ethics has told him that he must divest his stake in […]

January 19, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

Yesterday, the Senate held a confirmation hearing on Wilbur Ross, President-elect Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary. At the hearing, Ross continued to show support for a renegotiation of NAFTA, a frequent topic for Trump during the campaign. Ross also indicated that China’s trade practices would be a target of trade enforcement actions under the next […]

January 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

At Vox, Matthew Yglesias points out that President-Elect Trump has appointed protectionists to key positions in his administration. On Tuesday, Trump announced his intention to name Robert Lighthizer to the post of U.S. trade representative (USTR). Lighthizer, a former deputy USTR in the Reagan Administration and a practicing trade lawyer, has been a critic of recent […]

December 22, 2016
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that President-elect Donald Trump announced two agreements with unions at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas and the Trump International Hotel D.C., a move that could reduce conflicts of interest between the President-elect and the National Labor Relations Board. As president, Donald Trump will have the power to fill […]

December 8, 2016
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

The Wall Street Journal reports that President-elect Donald Trump is planning to name Andrew Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., as his labor secretary. Andrew Puzder has advocated a pro-business stance on labor issues. Read more from OnLabor here. The Atlantic reported on a new Allstate/Atlantic Media Heartland Monitor Poll, which released findings that […]

Picking the New Secretary of Labor: A Backgrounder on Peter Kirsanow

Nov 30, 2016 Melissa Greenberg

This post is part of a series on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. Last week, President-elect Donald Trump met with Peter Kirsanow, a management-side employment and labor attorney practicing with Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. Although he is based in Cleveland, OH, Kirsanow, an African-American conservative, is no stranger […]

November 24, 2016
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

Happy Thanksgiving! While many of us will be spending the holiday with family, Forbes reported that 28 percent of employees plan to spend this holiday with coworkers, an eight percent increase from 2015, according to a CareerBuilder survey. Some of these workers may be together out of necessity. The same survey reported that 24 percent […]

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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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February 16, 2017

Supreme Court Postpones Hearing Class Action Waiver Cases

NLRB General Counsel Directs Regions to Wait on Class Arbitration Cases Until Murphy Oil Is Decided

February 2, 2017

January 19, 2017

January 5, 2017

December 22, 2016

December 8, 2016

Picking the New Secretary of Labor: A Backgrounder on Peter Kirsanow

November 24, 2016