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Labor in Climate Crisis: Union Action for a Cleaner, Greener Future

Apr 15, 2025 Anjali Katta

From working in fields during wildfires to working in factories without air conditioning in summer heat, many workers are all too familiar with the harsh realities of the climate crisis. Many responses to the climate crisis, like the Green New Deal, recognize that marginalized people are the most affected and any solution must uplift both […]

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 […]

No Tax on Tips?

Apr 14, 2025 Rohan Chakravarty

During the 2024 presidential campaign, both President Trump and Vice President Harris expressed support for eliminating taxes on tipped wages. The President did so in June 2024 after a Las Vegas server complained to him about the taxes. In August 2024, also in Las Vegas, Vice President Harris promised to “eliminate taxes on tips for […]

Question 3 Still a Question: Massachusetts’ Experiment in Sectoral Bargaining for Gig Workers

Apr 8, 2025 Ted Parker

Last November, rideshare drivers in Massachusetts won the right to unionize. The ballot initiative that secured this right, Question 3, attempts to solve a fundamental problem posed by the nature of gig work. As independent contractors, rideshare drivers do not enjoy the rights and protections that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) grants to employees. […]

The Laken Riley Act Doesn’t Just Hurt Immigrants—It Harms All Workers

Apr 7, 2025 Meredith Gudesblatt

In 2016 Rajdai Roopnarayan, an immigrant housekeeper in New York City, was arrested after a necklace and some rings went missing from an apartment she cleaned. Any relief Roopnarayan felt the next day upon release was eclipsed by the gravity of the charge she faced—grand larceny for stealing $20,000 in jewelry. Ultimately, the prosecutor dismissed […]

April 6, 2025
News & Commentary

Liana Wang

In today’s news and commentary, Alabama enacts paid parental leave for state employees, a new jobs report could be upended by tariff policies, and labor unions help plan mass demonstrations across the country. In Alabama, Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill that provides paid parental leave to state employees, including public school teachers. The law, […]

Name-Image-Likeness and the Post-Work Economy

Apr 3, 2025 Benjamin Levin

For years, it’s been hard not to feel at least a little guilty watching March Madness. The annual college basketball tournament generates over a billion dollars. Schools, coaches, advertisers, and tv networks make money hand over fist. Yet, one group was always left out in the cold: the players. Despite the obvious profit motive of […]

April 1, 2025
News & Commentary

Anjali Katta

In today’s news and commentary, Aramark workers at Philly stadiums reach tentative agreement, Crystal Carey is poised to take general counsel at NLRB, President Trump’s nominees for key DOL positions, and the National Treasury Employees Union sues the Trump administration. UNITE HERE Local 274, which represents thousands of food service workers in the Philadelphia region, […]

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 […]

Labor’s Antitrust Immunity for Independent-Contractor Workers

Mar 25, 2025 Samuel Estreicher and Jack Samuel

The emergence of gig work is putting pressure on traditional notions of who is an employee and who is the employer. Workers classified as independent contractors rather than employees can lose state and federal protections for wages, overtime, whistleblowing, discriminatory firing, and more. They also lose federal labor law protections for group protest activity, union […]

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Labor in Climate Crisis: Union Action for a Cleaner, Greener Future

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

No Tax on Tips?

Question 3 Still a Question: Massachusetts’ Experiment in Sectoral Bargaining for Gig Workers

The Laken Riley Act Doesn’t Just Hurt Immigrants—It Harms All Workers

April 6, 2025

Name-Image-Likeness and the Post-Work Economy

April 1, 2025

How Work, and Workers, Can Influence Heat Action Plans

Labor’s Antitrust Immunity for Independent-Contractor Workers