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The HGSU Bargaining Unit

Jul 15, 2025 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Laura Weinrib

On July 2nd, Harvard announced that it had decided to remove a significant number of graduate students from the bargaining unit represented by HGSU. The University said that it would no longer “include any students in the bargaining unit receiving stipends to pursue research toward their degrees.” The explanation for this decision was brief. The […]

Dealing with the Likely Demise of Humphrey’s Executor

Jun 25, 2025 Samuel Estreicher, G. Roger King and David Sherwyn

The future of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), the venerable agency that since 1935 has been the exclusive investigation, enforcement, and adjudicatory body under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act), is in doubt. As of this writing, it seems likely, that perhaps sometime in fall 2025 or spring 2026, the […]

Justice Jackson Shows Us How to Read a Statute

Jun 24, 2025 Andrew Strom

The longer Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on the Supreme Court, the more she builds the case that her appointment to the Court may be Joe Biden’s greatest accomplishment. I hold out hope that someday her dissents will become majority opinions, but in the meantime she is at least alerting us to where her colleagues have […]

This is What a Lawless Judicial Opinion Looks Like

Jun 11, 2025 Andrew Strom

One basic element of the rule of law is that rules and principles are applied equally, regardless of which party benefits. When Donald Trump referred to “Obama judges” during his first term, Chief Justice John Roberts asserted, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges, or Clinton judges.” On one level, that’s nonsense. Of course […]

The NLRB’s Existence is at Stake

May 22, 2025 Andrew Strom

It seems increasing likely that Gwynne Wilcox’s lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her in the middle of her five-year term as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board will, one way or the other, result in the end of the NLRB as we have known it. Congress created the NLRB as an […]

Towards Sustainable Labor Law Reform

May 12, 2025 Samuel Estreicher

Rather than a wish list of labor law reforms, we need “Labor Law Reform for the Long Haul”—sensible changes that can attract bipartisan support and that will not result in endless policy oscillation with each new administration. What follows is a sketch of some such changes; others are also possible. I. Bolstering the Acceptability/Durability of Secret-Ballot […]

Maybe Disclosure Doesn’t Work

May 6, 2025 Andrew Strom

I used to think that disclosure laws had the potential to change corporate behavior. The idea is that if businesses have to publicly disclose what they are up to, then they will be shamed into changing their conduct. The problem is that much like the current President, corporate leaders seem increasingly immune from any sense of shame. […]

Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy

Apr 1, 2025 Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

This post was originally published on Fireside Stacks. Ezra Klein argues in his recent op-ed (and at greater length in his compelling new book with Derek Thompson) that a central problem facing Democrats is the crisis of scarcity. According to Klein, the places where Democrats govern are unaffordable because rules and political cultures constrain production […]

How Work, and Workers, Can Influence Heat Action Plans

Mar 27, 2025 Sharon Block and Rajesh Nayak

The following post originally appeared on the Harvard Climate Blog by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University. Summer is rapidly approaching in the U.S., bringing dangerously hot conditions for many workers. Last summer, in the face of rising temperatures, the Biden administration proposed landmark workplace standards that would protect workers from […]

Trump Puts NLRB Independence on the Line

Feb 10, 2025 Sharon Block

Gwynne Wilcox is a consummate public servant, who has served as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board since 2021. Despite her stellar reputation and unblemished record of service, President Donald Trump fired Member Wilcox on January 27, 2025, without making a single allegation about any misconduct. Her baseless discharge contravenes every word of […]

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The HGSU Bargaining Unit

Dealing with the Likely Demise of Humphrey’s Executor

Justice Jackson Shows Us How to Read a Statute

This is What a Lawless Judicial Opinion Looks Like

The NLRB’s Existence is at Stake

Towards Sustainable Labor Law Reform

Maybe Disclosure Doesn’t Work

Abundance That Works for Workers—and American Democracy

How Work, and Workers, Can Influence Heat Action Plans

Trump Puts NLRB Independence on the Line