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Ross Slaughter is a student at Harvard Law School and a member of the Labor and Employment Lab.

Property Owners Win Big in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid

Jun 23, 2021 Ross Slaughter

Earlier today, in Cedar Point Nursey v. Hassid, the Supreme Court held that a California regulation that grants union organizers temporary access to farm property to speak with agricultural workers is a per se taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The decision represents a dramatic rightward shift in the Court’s takings jurisprudence, one that […]

The NLRB’s unjustified expansion of Catholic Bishop is a threat to all employees at religious institutions.

May 24, 2021 Ross Slaughter

Should workers lose the protections of labor law simply because they work for religious organizations? As Jenny explained, the Supreme Court has become increasingly receptive to employers’ religious objections to laws governing the workplace. But at least these claims require employers to point to a specific religious exercise that the law burdens. It is something […]

Does Ownership Mean Absolute Dominion?

Apr 13, 2021 Ross Slaughter

In State v. Shack, New Jersey’s Supreme Court declared it “unthinkable” that property rights entitled agricultural employers to “isolate the migrant worker in any respect significant for the worker’s well-being.” Last month, in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, two agribusinesses asked the U.S. Supreme Court to do the unthinkable. They claim that a California regulation […]

India’s Farmers Are Fighting for their Economic Survival — and for the Survival of Indian Democracy

Mar 17, 2021 Ross Slaughter

Hundreds of thousands of farmers across India are protesting new agriculture laws that they worry will destroy their livelihoods and leave them at the mercy of large corporations. In the six months since the laws were passed, the movement has only grown, becoming the most serious challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi since his election […]

What the ICE Union’s Last Minute Deal with the Trump Administration Should Teach Progressives

Mar 3, 2021 Ross Slaughter

Over the last year, labor advocates and scholars have intensified calls to expand the range of topics over which employers have a duty to bargain with their employees. Supporters of an expansive duty to bargain often point to recent protests by employees at Wayfair, Amazon, and Microsoft over their employer’s complicity in the Trump Administration’s […]

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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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Property Owners Win Big in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid

The NLRB’s unjustified expansion of Catholic Bishop is a threat to all employees at religious institutions.

Does Ownership Mean Absolute Dominion?

India’s Farmers Are Fighting for their Economic Survival — and for the Survival of Indian Democracy

What the ICE Union’s Last Minute Deal with the Trump Administration Should Teach Progressives