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Yet Another Reason Why We Need a Clean Slate for Labor Law

Aug 11, 2020 Andrew Strom

If there is a silver lining in the efforts of Donald Trump’s appointees to crank out as many anti-worker decisions as possible at the National Labor Relations Board, it is that each new decision highlights the need for a fundamental overhaul of our labor laws. Buried in a footnote in a blizzard of decisions issued […]

Criminal Records Exclusion, “Rational Discrimination,” and Ban the Box

Jul 22, 2020 Noah Zatz

It is now well understood that employers discriminate against applicants with criminal records, but less is known about why they do so. This question is critical to designing appropriate laws and policies. New research shedding light on this issue has recently been published in Criminology and an accompanying policy brief. With my co-authors Naomi Sugie […]

Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

Jul 14, 2020 Andrew Strom

I recently wrote about how the Trump National Labor Relations Board has allowed employers to fire workers for urging their co-workers to vote for unionization during working time. On the heels of that decision, the Trump appointees gave employers another tool to silence workers. Last month, in California Commerce Club, Inc.,the NLRB held that where […]

Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

Jul 13, 2020 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred multiple crises in our country including a public health crisis and an economic one. The need to protect the health of Americans and the need to protect their livelihoods might seem to require disparate approaches. But, as unlikely as it may seem, we believe that rewriting the rules of how […]

Dissent in Exile: Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 NLRB No. 91 (May 29, 2020)

Jun 8, 2020 Andrew Strom

What’s the difference between talking about whether a union is good or bad, and encouraging a co-worker to vote for or against union representation? I don’t know either, but the National Labor Relations Board has just held that an employer may categorically prohibit the latter type of conversation during work time even though it must […]

The Power of Collective Action

May 25, 2020 Andrew Strom

On May Day, workers at Amazon, Instacart, and Target went out on strike, primarily over health and safety concerns. While the strikes garnered a lot of media attention, it’s not clear how many workers participated, and it does not appear that they have led to any changes in company policies. When workers start to organize, […]

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening

May 20, 2020 Sharon Block, Brishen Rogers and Benjamin Sachs

As the country moves toward “reopening,” we face a critical pair of questions. The first is how businesses can begin operating again while ensuring the safety of the millions of workers who will return to their jobs. It is clear that we cannot rely on the Trump administration to accomplish this crucial task – after […]

New Poll: Americans See Big Power Imbalance in the Workplace

May 14, 2020 Steven Greenhouse

As Covid-19 has terrified America these past two months, many essential workers — grocery cashiers, meatpacking workers, warehouse workers, McDonald’s workers, big box store workers — have complained about having to work without masks and about having virtually no say over safety matters on the job. Many of these workers are also deeply angry about […]

Shelter From the Storm

May 4, 2020 Charlotte Garden

For many of us, our main contribution to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic is staying home. Many governors have issued orders to “shelter in place,” borrowing the term from natural disaster response. That is, stay where you are, leave only if absolutely necessary. This post considers what it would mean to apply the same […]

Dissent in Exile: Baylor University Medical Center, 369 NLRB No. 43 (March 16, 2020)

Mar 24, 2020 Andrew Strom

While the rest of the country has been trying to unite to fight COVID-19, Donald Trump’s appointees at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have continued their relentless march to strip workers of their rights and to weaken the agency they preside over. Despite the substantive disagreements that Board Members have had over the years, […]

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Yet Another Reason Why We Need a Clean Slate for Labor Law

Criminal Records Exclusion, “Rational Discrimination,” and Ban the Box

Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

Dissent in Exile: Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, 369 NLRB No. 91 (May 29, 2020)

The Power of Collective Action

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening

New Poll: Americans See Big Power Imbalance in the Workplace

Shelter From the Storm

Dissent in Exile: Baylor University Medical Center, 369 NLRB No. 43 (March 16, 2020)