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The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Oct 28, 2020 Andrew Strom

If Joe Biden wins the Presidential election and the Democrats win control of the Senate, then the Trump National Labor Relations Board will soon be just a bad memory. But, the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision in Davidson Hotel Co. v. NLRB is a reminder that changing the composition of the NLRB will not, by itself, […]

Amy Coney Barrett and the Overconfidence and False Modesty of Textualism

Oct 23, 2020 Jenny Hunter

Last week’s confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett contained all the elements you probably put on your 2020 SCOTUS hearing bingo card, if you were in to that sort of thing. The Republican senators talked a lot about Judge Barrett’s seven children. The Democratic Senators talked about the life and death consequences if the […]

Amy Coney Barrett is as Anti-Worker as the Rest of Trump’s Judges

Oct 7, 2020 Andrew Strom

The media is giving so much attention to how the next Supreme Court Justice may affect the continued vitality of Roe v. Wade that voters may not fully appreciate how yet another Donald Trump appointee on the court will cement the Court’s anti-worker tilt for decades. On one level, Judge Barrett’s nomination is less significant […]

Moving Beyond App Drivers: Exotic Dancers, a Gig Worker Success Story

Oct 5, 2020 Kate Griffith and Emma LoMastro

The U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed rule to expand the number of workers who businesses can classify as independent contractors represents the agency’s latest attempt to reduce company accountability for employment conditions. The rule further fuels the ongoing debate about the exemption of employment protections for “independent contractors.” When it comes to the independent contractor […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Three

Oct 2, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the final post in a series of three. Read part one and part two. Building on two previous posts, which reviewed some of the issues at the center of recent and ongoing collective action in the tech, the present legal landscape and three possible normative justifications for employee voice in employer business decisions […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Two

Oct 1, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the second post in a series of three. Read part one and check back tomorrow for part three. Following part one’s brief overview of some of the issues at the center of recent and ongoing collective action in the tech sector as well as the present legal landscape, this second post examines three […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part One

Sep 30, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the first post in a series of three. Check back tomorrow and Friday for part two and part three. It’s a fraught time for tech workers. The tech sector, which for decades has largely remained outside the realm of organized labor, has emerged over the past few years as a locus for collective […]

Peter Robb’s Vacuous Attack on Voluntary Recognition Agreements

Sep 21, 2020 Andrew Strom

Thanks to Donald Trump and Republican Senators, Peter Robb is the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, the most powerful position at the agency. Robb oversees the hundreds of lawyers and investigators who are charged with protecting the rights of workers “to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives […]

Martinez-Cuevas: Reckoning with Labor Law’s Racist Roots

Aug 20, 2020 Marina Multhaup

The Washington Supreme Court is currently deliberating a case that could have major economic effects for our most vulnerable workers while beginning to unravel one long-standing piece of our nation’s white supremacist history. The case, Martinez-Cuevas v. Deruyter Brothers Dairy, has gone relatively uncovered by national media but speaks to the national moment that we’re […]

Uber’s Flexibility Myth: Reprise

Aug 19, 2020 Benjamin Sachs

As Uber has done countless times before, it argued in a recent NYT op-ed that the firm can’t possibly classify its drivers as employees because doing so would undermine the core feature of its business model: “flexibility.” I have argued many times myself that Uber’s argument about flexibility is nothing more than a myth; that […]

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The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Amy Coney Barrett and the Overconfidence and False Modesty of Textualism

Amy Coney Barrett is as Anti-Worker as the Rest of Trump’s Judges

Moving Beyond App Drivers: Exotic Dancers, a Gig Worker Success Story

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Three

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part Two

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part One

Peter Robb’s Vacuous Attack on Voluntary Recognition Agreements

Martinez-Cuevas: Reckoning with Labor Law’s Racist Roots

Uber’s Flexibility Myth: Reprise