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The National Restaurant Association’s Training Scheme Is Unconstitutional

Jan 18, 2023 Benjamin Sachs

Food-service workers in four states are being required to pay for a food-safety training class every few years. That money is then being used to fund political lobbying that many of the workers oppose. That's unconstitutional.

Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation

Dec 24, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

How the NLRB can promote state-level labor law innovation

A Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing

Nov 16, 2022 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

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

Oct 24, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

What the next big Supreme Court labor case means for workers' right to strike — and what Congress can do about it.

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

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, […]

Property Rights and Union Rights

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

As part of our Labor Day coverage, I’m posting my take on the Supreme Court’s decision in Cedar Point Nursery. OnLabor readers can access the full article on The Supreme Court Review’s website (for thirty days) and the article’s Introduction is posted below. The bottom line? Only by ignoring what the United Farm Workers actually […]

Roundtable on Law and Countervailing Power

Jul 7, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

At a moment when many are looking for new strategies to advance progressive political goals, The American Prospect and The Forge have published a roundtable-style discussion based on Kate Andrias’s and my article Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality. In addition to Kate and me, the roundtable featured Steve […]

Sharon Block Returns to Harvard as Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program

Mar 18, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

I am so happy to share with OnLabor readers the news that Sharon Block is returning to Harvard Law School as a professor of practice and the Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program. Sharon’s return is a great boon for labor law at Harvard and an incredible opportunity for us to consider the […]

NLRB General Counsel on Players at Academic Institutions

Sep 29, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

As Fred reported earlier this morning, Board GC Abruzzo has released a memo in which she states her position that “the scholarship football players at issue in Northwestern University, and similarly situated Players at Academic Institutions, are employees under the Act.” This is yet another huge development in U.S. labor law, and one with obviously […]

Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies

Sep 8, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

Today, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released a highly relevant and impactful memo on the office’s intent to seek a rather stunning new array of remedies in unfair labor practice cases. As I wrote about the last GC memo, if the Board does a fraction of the things Abruzzo calls for […]

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The National Restaurant Association’s Training Scheme Is Unconstitutional

Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation

A Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing

Glacier’s Employer-Only Preemption Reform

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Property Rights and Union Rights

Roundtable on Law and Countervailing Power

Sharon Block Returns to Harvard as Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program

NLRB General Counsel on Players at Academic Institutions

Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies