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Privileging Property in the NLRB Email Case

Dec 19, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

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 (Rio All-Suites Hotel) are likely to be significant given the fact that, in many workplaces, the only way that employees […]

Respecting the Right to Strike at Harvard

Dec 16, 2019 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Laura Weinrib

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 departments include a provision in postings and offer letters that conditions teaching fellow positions on whether candidates […]

How Labor Law Could Help – Not Hinder – Tackling Big Problems

Dec 6, 2019 Sharon Block

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 Global Climate Strikes this fall. Numerous alliances between labor and environmentalists have […]

Why the DOL Should Keep its Hands Off of Worker Centers

Nov 26, 2019 Kate Griffith and Leslie Gates

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 and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The investigation is ongoing, but if the DOL’s […]

The State of the Deregulatory First Amendment at the NLRB

Nov 22, 2019 Charlotte Garden

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 of the First Amendment, suggesting that workers’ collective action or collective bargaining […]

Senator Wagner Still Speaks, And We Should Listen

Nov 21, 2019 Charlie J. Morris

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 bargaining, and how it is expected to function, plus its role in history, and how it can be achieved as […]

The Trump NLRB’s Stealth Blow Against Campus Solidarity

Nov 19, 2019 Andrew Strom

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 and teaching and research assistants across the country have been organizing to submit comments […]

Labor Law Should Encourage Short Strikes

Nov 4, 2019 Andrew Strom

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 members decided that when workers go on strike, they have only two choices: withhold […]

It’s Official: The Chamber of Commerce’s Agenda Rules at the Trump NLRB

Oct 25, 2019 Lynn Rhinehart

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 appointees needed to get confirmed by the Senate. But […]

Harvard Grad Students Announce Strike Authorization Vote

Oct 10, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

Harvard University’s graduate student union (HGSU-UAW) has announced that they will hold a strike authorization vote beginning October 15. A two-thirds vote of the membership will allow the negotiating committee to call a strike. I thought it might be useful to reiterate two very basic points in the lead-up to the authorization vote and possible […]

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Privileging Property in the NLRB Email Case

Respecting the Right to Strike at Harvard

How Labor Law Could Help – Not Hinder – Tackling Big Problems

Why the DOL Should Keep its Hands Off of Worker Centers

The State of the Deregulatory First Amendment at the NLRB

Senator Wagner Still Speaks, And We Should Listen

The Trump NLRB’s Stealth Blow Against Campus Solidarity

Labor Law Should Encourage Short Strikes

It’s Official: The Chamber of Commerce’s Agenda Rules at the Trump NLRB

Harvard Grad Students Announce Strike Authorization Vote