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Cut College Sports’ Gordian Knot: Go Straight to Collective Bargaining (Part II)

Jun 16, 2025 Wilma Liebman and Lance Compa

What Happens at the Bargaining Table? This is Part II of a two-part series on collective bargaining in college athletics. Read Part I here. Players’ unions and athletic administrators can first negotiate a wage “floor” with minimum pay scales providing basic income for all athletes. They might also add a bonus plan for teams that […]

Cut College Sports’ Gordian Knot: Go Straight to Collective Bargaining (Part I)

Jun 13, 2025 Wilma Liebman and Lance Compa

The Case for College Sports Bargaining This is Part I of a two-part series on collective bargaining in college athletics. Federal judge Claudia Wilken’s June 6 settlement approval in the House v. NCAA antitrust lawsuit is not the culmination of college sports’ evolution from hypocritical amateurism to open professionalism. It’s a plot thickener. Fearful of even greater […]

A Labor Agency with No Labor Board

May 9, 2025 Marina Multhaup

No one knows what will happen to labor in the coming years under the hostile Trump administration. Trump has already fired NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo, unlawfully fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox, and unlawfully attempted to strip collective bargaining rights from thousands of public employees. We can expect the Trump Administration might take further actions to undermine […]

The DOL Cannot Repeal Misclassification Rules Without Reasoned Decisionmaking

May 8, 2025 Reed Shaw

On May 1, 2025, the Acting Administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published a Field Assistance Bulletin stating that, while the Department is reconsidering its 2024 notice-and-comment rule on “Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act,” the Division “will no longer apply the 2024 Rule’s analysis when determining employee versus […]

The Future of Judicial Deference to the NLRB

May 7, 2025 Jason Vazquez

It has been nearly ten months since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loper Bright Enterprise v. Raimondo displaced Chevron’s longstanding injunction that courts must defer to an agency’s “reasonable” interpretation of a statute Congress empowered it to administer — a bedrock precept of administrative law — with the directive to instead exercise “independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has […]

A Coalition of Hundreds of Employers Is Asking the Trump Administration to Override the NLRB and Dictate Labor Law

Apr 14, 2025 Lauren McFerran and Lynn Rhinehart

This post was initially published on the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog. With the Trump administration implementing a blizzard of anti-worker initiatives on a near-daily basis, it’s difficult to imagine that these early assaults could be only the tip of the iceberg. But President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk may well have far worse […]

An “Unrivaled” Model for Worker Power in Women’s Professional Basketball

Mar 13, 2025 Lucy Cheskin

Women’s sports is experiencing a moment of profound growth. Leagues are attracting record viewership, increasingly lucrative media deals, and significant interest from major investors. But as women’s sports continues its ascent along traditional axes of success such as viewership, revenue, and team valuations, success should also be measured by how the athletes who have driven […]

Wall Street’s Dangerous Grind: the Human Toll of High Finance and the Fight for Workplace Reform

Mar 12, 2025 Miriam Li

In early 2025, the death of a 28-year-old investment banker set off renewed calls for stronger employee protections in the financial industry. While the cause of death remains unknown, recent reports of a potential overdose, extreme sleep deprivation, and widespread stimulant abuse at the young banker’s firm have fueled arguments that his death is part […]

Why We Need Federal “Bureaucrats”

Mar 4, 2025 Andrew Strom

Elon Musk has literally been brandishing a chain saw to symbolize his efforts to fire federal workers. Across the country, the federal government employs about 3 million civilians. The Defense Department employs about 750,000 of these, far more than any other department. Federal employees do a wide variety of jobs, but many of them work […]

The Sexism Behind Reality TV Performers’ Lack of Workers’ Rights

Jan 17, 2025 Hannah Finnie

Reality TV performers on the popular Netflix dating show “Love Is Blind” are used to being in the spotlight. Their storylines regularly generate national debates about love, betrayal, and commitment. But last month, they made national news for a different reason: labor rights. In response to labor and employment law claims filed by a former […]

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Cut College Sports’ Gordian Knot: Go Straight to Collective Bargaining (Part II)

Cut College Sports’ Gordian Knot: Go Straight to Collective Bargaining (Part I)

A Labor Agency with No Labor Board

The DOL Cannot Repeal Misclassification Rules Without Reasoned Decisionmaking

The Future of Judicial Deference to the NLRB

A Coalition of Hundreds of Employers Is Asking the Trump Administration to Override the NLRB and Dictate Labor Law

An “Unrivaled” Model for Worker Power in Women’s Professional Basketball

Wall Street’s Dangerous Grind: the Human Toll of High Finance and the Fight for Workplace Reform

Why We Need Federal “Bureaucrats”

The Sexism Behind Reality TV Performers’ Lack of Workers’ Rights