Today in Milwaukee, the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry laid out our union’s bold vision for an inclusive labor law regime that would empower millions of workers to form unions and rebalance our economy away f... More »
The upcoming Supreme Court term is already brimming with consequential employment law issues on its argument docket. But fair warning: There is little promise that the Court’s treatment of these issues will advance the cause of workplace justice or please cur... More »
In April, Alberta elected the right-wing United Conservative Party (UCP) to a majority government, ending the one term reign of the left-of-centre New Democratic Party (NDP). The UCP ran on a platform that included a familiar array of conservative policies, in... More »
Here is a glimpse at the Supreme Court’s labor and employment decisions for the term that ended in June of 2019. Compared to the carnage of a year ago, when the Janus and Epic double whammy dealt punishing blows respectively to public sector unions and to cla... More »
I first met Héctor Figueroa in the late 1980s. I was a young labor lawyer based in New York but traveling all over the South working on organizing campaigns (the NLRB kind, if you can remember back that far). Héctor was a young staffer in the Research Departm... More »
In the recent conversation between Veena Dubal and Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block, there is solid agreement around the need to grant collective bargaining rights to platform workers. Yet the right way to get there is subject of intense debate. However, undern... More »
Héctor Figueroa hired me into my first job in the labor movement. In 2000, he and a new leadership team began at SEIU Local 32BJ, the massive building services union centered in New York City. Héctor was initially the Secretary-Treasurer (essentially the third... More »
In February, the Fourth Circuit ruled on Parker v. Reema Consulting Services., holding that rumors in the workplace that a female manager received a series of promotions because she was sleeping with a male manager constituted sexual harassment under Title VII... More »
For those who have yet to cue in, professional wrestling is fake—the conflicts are fabricated, the fights are choreographed, and the maneuvers are (in theory) designed to prevent injury. Yet, for anyone who has spent even a few minutes watching World Wrestling... More »
Earlier this year, the NLRB decided SuperShuttle DFW, Inc. v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1338. In that case, the Board determined that a shuttle company’s drivers were correctly classified independent contractors. The Board took that opportunity to revi... More »
Among the many accounts of gender discrimination at work that have emerged recently is a Title VII claim against Microsoft. The allegations describe Microsoft’s culture as a “boys’ club” environment where employees call women derogatory names, and where women ... More »
Home healthcare workers provide essential care to some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Despite the important services these workers provide, jobs in the home care industry are generally characterized by low pay and difficult working conditions. ... More »