Principles for a Just and Sustainable Economy On International Workers' Day, the Clean Slate for Worker Power reflects on the intersection of the labor, climate, and racial justice movements in its report "Exploratory Principles: Making Progress for People and the Planet."
The Howard Schultz Senate Hearing: Setting the Record Straight on a Venti’s Worth of Misinformation Assessing Starbucks CEO's Senate testimonial regarding the company's response to workers union organizing.
What Can We Learn from Growing Federal Sector Unions? (Hint: Maybe Clean Slate Works) What the success of federal-sector unions can teach us about private-sector labor law reform.
Labor Law Reform Is Needed for Unions to Succeed How can support for unions be at an all-time high yet union membership fall to an all-time low? It's because our labor law is a complete disaster.
How the Next Big Supreme Court Labor Case Threatens Workers’ Rights Cement-truck drivers went on strike. A lawsuit by their company may pave the way for restricting workers’ rights.
A Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing 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 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” 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 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 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 […]
