After eighteen months of highly collaborative work involving over seventy academics, organizers, lawyers, and students from around the world, we released this morning the report and recommendations of the Clean Slate for Worker Power project. You can learn all... More »
In the new Board’s first decision of the post-McFerran era, United Parcel Service, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 1 (2019), the Board’s three Republican members overturn yet another Obama Board decision. This time, the Republican-only Board has taken on arbitral deferral ... More »
Two of the key talking points Republicans in the House of Representatives repeated endlessly in defense of Donald Trump were that Trump did not directly threaten Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the July 25th telephone call, and Zelensky later said... More »
As Ryan reported yesterday, the Board has overruled Purple Communications and held that employees—in most circumstances—may not use an employer’s email system to communicate about unionization or other section 7 activity. The effects of this decision (Ri... More »
According to the Crimson, Harvard has circulated an email advising departments seeking to hire spring teaching fellows (and other student workers) to include certain language in job postings and offer letters. The Crimson reports that the email “recommends dep... More »
As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, the question of the role of labor in finding solutions also becomes more urgent. As OnLabor has tracked, significant parts of the labor movement have expressed support for the climate fight. Labor groups joined the... More »
Recently Bloomberg reported that the Office of Labor Management Standards of the U.S. Department of Labor (the DOL) has reason to believe that the Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en La Lucha (CTUL) is a “labor organization” under the Labor Management Reporting a... More »
I often criticize the Trump NLRB for taking too narrow a view of workers’ rights, creating an inevitable clash with First Amendment principles. But recently, I’ve had the opposite complaint: the Board and its General Counsel have been taking too broad a view o... More »
My new book, How the Working Class Can Help the Middle Class: Reintroducing Non-Majority Collective Bargaining to the American Workplace, verifies and explains the legal basis of a little-known collective bargaining process, to wit, members-only minority-union... More »
The Trump NLRB is receiving comments on its proposed rule to exclude university teaching and research assistants who are also graduate students from the coverage of the National Labor Relations Act. That proposal has generated a fair amount of media coverage ... More »
Now that the General Motors strike is over, it’s a good time to reflect on how a recent Trump NLRB decision creates perverse incentives to unnecessarily prolong strikes. In July, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., without any meaningful analysis, the Trump NLRB membe... More »
In early 2017, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce put out its top 10 wish list for changes it wanted to see at the National Labor Relations Board. It took a little while for the NLRB to get going on the Chamber’s agenda, because President Trump’s corporate appointee... More »