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Sharon Block is a Professor of Practice and the Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.

A Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing

Nov 16, 2022 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

If Amazon can move its business online, then labor law requires that the union be able to move its picket line online too.

Glacier’s Employer-Only Preemption Reform

Oct 24, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

What the next big Supreme Court labor case means for workers' right to strike — and what Congress can do about it.

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

Sep 27, 2022 Sharon Block

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agencies charged with setting employment standards for the fair treatment of the nation’s workforce. Instead, the Federal Trade Commission made […]

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

For those of us who support unions, we have an unfamiliar feeling this Labor Day. It’s a feeling of hope and celebration. This is unfamiliar territory because union organizing has been in a free fall for decades now. But we can smile this Labor Day because American workers have delivered a lot to celebrate and, […]

Union Density and the Post-Roe Crisis

Jun 28, 2022 Sharon Block

Low-wage workers in the United States face a great deal of precarity in 2022 as a general matter — and the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade last week has increased that precarity for millions. The degree of that precarity varies greatly depending in which state a worker lives. In regions of the U.S. that precarity […]

The State of Labor in the State of the Union

Mar 3, 2022 Sharon Block

I think it is fair to say that based on President Biden’s first State of the Union (SOTU) address, the state of labor’s interests in the Biden Administration is strong. Even before President Biden entered the House Chamber Tuesday night, Biden sent a signal about how central the labor movement is to his presidency. Starting with […]

A Letter of Gratitude from Sharon Block

Jan 25, 2021 Sharon Block

Dear Friends: Almost four years ago, I came to the Labor and Worklife Program here at Harvard Law School, after eight years in the Obama-Biden Administration. Last week, I left LWP to join the Biden-Harris Administration. In 2017, I thought I knew something of the magnitude of the challenges that were facing American workers. I […]

Clean Slate and the Future of Labor Law Reform

Jan 19, 2021 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

One year ago, we released our Clean Slate for Worker Power report. The report opened by invoking the idea that concentrated economic and political power threatens the functioning of democracy. We recognized that this idea shaped the New Deal and led to the National Labor Relations Act’s historic protection for union organizing and collective bargaining. […]

Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

Jul 13, 2020 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred multiple crises in our country including a public health crisis and an economic one. The need to protect the health of Americans and the need to protect their livelihoods might seem to require disparate approaches. But, as unlikely as it may seem, we believe that rewriting the rules of how […]

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening

May 20, 2020 Sharon Block, Brishen Rogers and Benjamin Sachs

As the country moves toward “reopening,” we face a critical pair of questions. The first is how businesses can begin operating again while ensuring the safety of the millions of workers who will return to their jobs. It is clear that we cannot rely on the Trump administration to accomplish this crucial task – after […]

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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 Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing

Glacier’s Employer-Only Preemption Reform

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Union Density and the Post-Roe Crisis

The State of Labor in the State of the Union

A Letter of Gratitude from Sharon Block

Clean Slate and the Future of Labor Law Reform

Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening