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Alexander W. Miller is a student at Harvard Law School.

May 21, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

Updating our coverage yesterday, more than 35,000 members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are striking this weekend after the union and AT&T failed to agree to a new long-term contact by the union’s Friday afternoon deadline. The walkout forced stores across the country to close, though AT&T insisted that most of its locations were still open. […]

May 7, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

Today France votes in the runoff round of its presidential election, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the European Union and labor mobility within the continent. Recent public opinion polls show an upset by Marine Le Pen to be unlikely, and coverage of the vote has shifted toward potential economic consequences. The Economist and Bret Stephens at the New […]

Weekend News & Commentary—April 8-9, 2017

Apr 9, 2017 Alexander W. Miller

The United States Department of Labor acknowledged Friday that an investigation of Google “found systemic compensation disparities against women” working for the company. The allegations come amidst a Labor Department effort begun during the Obama Administration to use its ability to police companies bidding for government contracts to uncover wage and hiring discrimination based on race or gender. Recently, that […]

April 9, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

The United States Department of Labor acknowledged Friday that an investigation of Google “found systemic compensation disparities against women” working for the company. The allegations come amidst a Labor Department effort begun during the Obama Administration to use its ability to police companies bidding for government contracts to uncover wage and hiring discrimination based on race or gender. Recently, that […]

March 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

House Republicans canceled a scheduled vote Friday on their Affordable Care Act (ACA) replacement. With Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump unable to whip the votes for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) due to defections from both the caucus’s conservative and moderate wings, the bill was withdrawn and no timeframe given for a revised version. […]

March 1, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

President Trump delivered his first address to Congress last night, in which he called again for increased spending on infrastructure projects and efforts to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States. No details of these plans were provided, though unions and businesses have begun lobbying to secure portions of the predicted infrastructure package. […]

February 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

The Democratic National Committee elected former labor secretary Thomas Perez as the first Latino chairman of the party. The race for who would lead the rebuilding Democratic Party had been unusually contentious, going to a second ballot after the strong showing of Representative Keith Ellison. Perez immediately named Ellison his deputy, expressing a desire to present […]

February 12, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

Following up on our reporting yesterday about state efforts to undermine labor unions in Wisconsin and Iowa, the New York Times looks at the impact of one-party rule in the 25 states where Republicans now control both houses of the state legislature and the state executive. Of note are initiatives in the four states (Missouri, […]

January 29, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry from seven majority-Muslim nations has dominated the news over the past 48 hours. Though a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York stayed large portions of the order Saturday night, news outlets continue to report on the ongoing implications of the ban, especially for the numerous workers […]

January 15, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

After voters in the city of SeaTac approved a $15 minimum wage more than three years ago, employers at Sea-Tac International Airport sued, seeking to block the new law’s application to airport businesses. Though the Washington Supreme Court eventually ruled against the business owners, thousands of workers were not paid the statutory wage in the […]

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