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A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

Jul 29, 2022 David Doorey

The recent wave of union organizing in the service sector has raised hopes that a fundamental transformation is occurring in the United States that will revitalize collective bargaining and bring millions of young workers into the labor movement. At the epicentre of this movement is a mass campaign to organize Starbucks’s employees. As of this […]

GOP Judges Find Anti-Union Threats Funny

May 25, 2022 Andrew Strom

Assume you work at a media company, and workers at a rival media company go on strike. Your boss responds by tweeting, “FYI @[your company] first one of you tries to unionize I swear I’ll send you back to the salt mine.” That’s what happened in June 2019 when workers at Vox Media walked off […]

Janus and the Court’s Decision to Overrule Roe v. Wade

May 5, 2022 Andrew Strom

The country has been rocked by the news that the Supreme Court seems poised to issue a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that will overrule the 49 year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade guaranteeing the right to an abortion for women who can find a provider. (As a blog that deals with issues […]

Amazon’s Objections Show Labor Law’s Flaws

Apr 13, 2022 Andrew Strom

Workers at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island voted by a margin of 2,654 to 2,131 in favor of unionizing with the independent Amazon Labor Union (ALU). If our labor laws worked, Amazon would now be required to bargain with ALU. But, instead of accepting the election results, Amazon is doing its best Donald Trump impression, claiming […]

How Far Will the Court Go in Allowing Forced Arbitration for Workers?

Mar 10, 2022 Andrew Strom

Reading the briefs in Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, a case the Supreme Court will hear at the end of the month, I was reminded of two aphorisms. The first is “what a tangled web we weave when first we start to deceive,” and the second is Karl Marx’s observation that history repeats itself, the first […]

How Canadian Unions Responded to Vaccine Mandates, Protests, and Blockades

Mar 8, 2022 David Doorey and Rawan Abdelbaki

Not very often do events in Canada make global headlines. The recent protest convoy that occupied Ottawa for several weeks in February and shut down international borders proved the exception to the rule. The organizers of the protest were a mishmash of right-wing insurrectionists and QAnon delusionists seeking to end vaccine mandates, charge Prime Minister […]

The State of Labor in the State of the Union

Mar 3, 2022 Sharon Block

I think it is fair to say that based on President Biden’s first State of the Union (SOTU) address, the state of labor’s interests in the Biden Administration is strong. Even before President Biden entered the House Chamber Tuesday night, Biden sent a signal about how central the labor movement is to his presidency. Starting with […]

The Law & Politics of Noncompete Reform: A Cross-Border Perspective

Feb 24, 2022 Rachel Arnow-Richman and David Doorey

Noncompete reform is currently the rage in the United States. In recent years, numerous states have enacted laws limiting the reach of these agreements and proscribing their use with low-wage workers. Yet Ontario — Canada’s largest province — blew past its southern neighbor when it enacted an all-out ban on employee noncompetes late in 2021. Although bans […]

The Battle Over Bargaining Units

Feb 15, 2022 Andrew Strom

In American Steel Construction, the National Labor Relations Board will once again decide how much it will tolerate employer litigation over bargaining units as an antiunion weapon. The National Labor Relations Act was supposed to give workers a voice in governing their workplaces, but only six percent of private-sector workers in this country have the right […]

The Surprising Agreement Between Uber and UFCW in Canada in Legal Context

Jan 31, 2022 David Doorey

Last week, Uber Canada and UFCW-Canada made a surprise announcement that they had reached “a historic national agreement” for representation rights affecting some 100,000 Uber workers in Canada. The “Agreement” has not been made public yet, but the press releases provide some details. Under the Agreement, Uber recognizes a right of UFCW to represent drivers and […]

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A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

GOP Judges Find Anti-Union Threats Funny

Janus and the Court’s Decision to Overrule Roe v. Wade

Amazon’s Objections Show Labor Law’s Flaws

How Far Will the Court Go in Allowing Forced Arbitration for Workers?

How Canadian Unions Responded to Vaccine Mandates, Protests, and Blockades

The State of Labor in the State of the Union

The Law & Politics of Noncompete Reform: A Cross-Border Perspective

The Battle Over Bargaining Units

The Surprising Agreement Between Uber and UFCW in Canada in Legal Context