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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, […]

What’s Next For Labor Law Reform?

Mar 3, 2020 Charlotte Garden

A version of this article was originally published by The Century Foundation. Labor law reform is having a renaissance, and not a minute too late. For starters, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act—a bill that, if enacted, would be the most ambitious pro-union labor law reform since the […]

Sectoral Bargaining on the Ballot

Feb 19, 2020 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

During this Democratic primary season, there has been much focus on what divides the candidates – who is for Medicare for All and who is for Medicare for anyone who wants it, who is for a Green New Deal and who is for a carbon tax, who wants structural change and who wants incremental change. […]

Dissent in Exile: UPS, 369 NLRB No. 1 (December 23, 2019)

Jan 7, 2020 Sharon Block

In the new Board’s first decision of the post-McFerran era, United Parcel Service, Inc., 369 NLRB No. 1 (2019), the Board’s three Republican members overturn yet another Obama Board decision. This time, the Republican-only Board has taken on arbitral deferral standards, reversing the Board’s 2014 decision in Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., 261 NLRB 1127, […]

What Labor Law Teaches Us About Trump’s Defenses

Dec 20, 2019 Andrew Strom

Two of the key talking points Republicans in the House of Representatives repeated endlessly in defense of Donald Trump were that Trump did not directly threaten Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the July 25th telephone call, and Zelensky later said that he didn’t feel pressured by Trump. A landmark 50-year-old Supreme Court labor law case, […]

How Labor Law Could Help – Not Hinder – Tackling Big Problems

Dec 6, 2019 Sharon Block

As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, the question of the role of labor in finding solutions also becomes more urgent. As OnLabor has tracked, significant parts of the labor movement have expressed support for the climate fight. Labor groups joined the Global Climate Strikes this fall. Numerous alliances between labor and environmentalists have […]

The State of the Deregulatory First Amendment at the NLRB

Nov 22, 2019 Charlotte Garden

I often criticize the Trump NLRB for taking too narrow a view of workers’ rights, creating an inevitable clash with First Amendment principles. But recently, I’ve had the opposite complaint: the Board and its General Counsel have been taking too broad a view of the First Amendment, suggesting that workers’ collective action or collective bargaining […]

The Trump NLRB is in a Hurry to Rewrite Labor Law

Sep 17, 2019 Andrew Strom

Donald Trump’s appointees on the National Labor Relations Board seem to have come to the conclusion that he’s going to be a one-term President, so they are racing as fast as they can to chip away at workers’ rights. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post nominating Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation […]

The Necessary Next Step for Gig Workers in California

Sep 13, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

Sharon and I have a piece up at WaPo today making the case that California should follow AB5 with a new law that gives gig workers the right to form unions and collectively bargain with their employers.

Will California Legislate Fairness for Gig Workers?

Sep 9, 2019 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

The battle for the gig economy’s future is underway in California. The fight is over a proposed bill – AB5 – that would classify many gig workers, including Uber and Lyft drivers, as employees for purposes of California employment law. Should AB5 be enacted, gig workers would win important protections like minimum wage, overtime pay, […]

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

What’s Next For Labor Law Reform?

Sectoral Bargaining on the Ballot

Dissent in Exile: UPS, 369 NLRB No. 1 (December 23, 2019)

What Labor Law Teaches Us About Trump’s Defenses

How Labor Law Could Help – Not Hinder – Tackling Big Problems

The State of the Deregulatory First Amendment at the NLRB

The Trump NLRB is in a Hurry to Rewrite Labor Law

The Necessary Next Step for Gig Workers in California

Will California Legislate Fairness for Gig Workers?