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August 20, 2021
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

News has come out that Current Affairs, a socialist magazine, fired all but one of its employees after it became clear the workers were moving towards transitioning the structure of the magazine to a worker co-op. The magazine, according to three of the fired workers, was in need of a more egalitarian and progressive structure, […]

August 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

AFL-CIO president and key labor leader Richard Trumka passed away yesterday. Originally a mine worker, Trumka rose through the ranks of the United Mine Workers and eventually became the president of the AFL-CIO, becoming an often-looked-to voice on labor issues. A new report from The Century Foundation estimates that 7.5 million workers in the U.S. […]

NDWA-Handy Pilot: Major Gains for Workers Long Excluded from Labor Law’s Protections

Jun 17, 2021 Kate Andrias and Benjamin Sachs

Today, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) announced a new pilot program for domestic workers who use the Handy platform. The pilot, which will run in three states (Florida, Kentucky, and Indiana), is a victory for thousands of workers, nearly all women of color, who are denied even the minimal protections of traditional labor and […]

Why Universal Basic Income is a Labor Issue

Apr 30, 2021 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Most associate the call for Universal Basic Income (UBI) with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, whose proposal for a “freedom dividend” of $12,000 a year to every American was the central message of his campaign. Running for mayor of New York City, Yang brings a modified cash relief program that would give an average of […]

The Injustice of UI Clawbacks

Feb 10, 2021 Marina Multhaup

Across the country hundreds of thousands of people are receiving notices from their state unemployment office telling them that they were “overpaid” unemployment benefits and are now in debt to the state. Because most people received expanded federal unemployment benefits, this debt can be in the tens of thousands of dollars. When people cannot repay […]

How Courts Could Guarantee Time off to Vote

Jun 10, 2020 Maxwell Ulin

On Tuesday, Georgia’s primary chaotically illustrated how pandemic conditions are likely to undermine ballot access this year. Already, lower turnout since the outbreak in states like Illinois, Wisconsin, and California has Democrats worried about the coronavirus’s effect on elections this fall. Yet for all of the recent concern, voter suppression in the United States is […]

April 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

On Sunday, the Department of Labor issued new guidance clarifying gig workers’ eligibility for unemployment benefits under the CARES Act—the federal government’s coronavirus relief package. The guidance answers some key questions about the administrability of these benefits. For instance, some worried about the lack of clarity about whether, and to what extent, states should verify […]

Paid Leave in the Time of Coronavirus: Lessons from Texas

Mar 20, 2020 Vail Kohnert-Yount

On Wednesday, Congress passed the first widespread federal paid sick leave mandate within its coronavirus emergency relief package. Only a massive pandemic—current estimates predict, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States—could convince Congress to enact even a temporary paid sick leave measure. Since 2011, states and cities have acted on […]

Review of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder

Mar 11, 2019 Jared Odessky

Last Monday the Labor and Employment Action Project (LEAP) at Harvard Law School hosted David Webber, professor at Boston University School of Law, for a discussion of his book The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon. In difficult times for the labor movement, Webber offers some reason for hope. While union density […]

Today’s News & Commentary — July 20, 2018

Jul 20, 2018 Jenny Braun

For the discriminatory loss of early retirement benefits, the New York State Nurses Association has won a $20.8 million-dollar settlement from New York City. The city repeatedly denied requests from the Assoc. to classify nursing as a “physically taxing” job, and thus denied nurses early retirement (at age 50). The New York Times reports that […]

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August 20, 2021

August 6, 2021

NDWA-Handy Pilot: Major Gains for Workers Long Excluded from Labor Law’s Protections

Why Universal Basic Income is a Labor Issue

The Injustice of UI Clawbacks

How Courts Could Guarantee Time off to Vote

April 6, 2020

Paid Leave in the Time of Coronavirus: Lessons from Texas

Review of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder

Today’s News & Commentary — July 20, 2018