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Law and Order Beats Bread and Butter: Politics and the White Working-Class

Apr 26, 2016 Aabid Allibhai

The Rise of the Silent Majority In 1969, President Richard Nixon read a piece in New York Magazine that heavily influenced his political strategy for the 1972 elections. Pete Hamill’s The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class argued that the white working-class felt alienated, disrespected, and forgotten—they felt the government did not care about […]

Who’s Afraid of Collective Action?

Apr 1, 2016 Kelsey Bleiweiss

The law of the workplace is in the midst of a critical debate about collectivity. In case after case courts and the National Labor Relations Board have fought over the availability of collective action in two areas relevant to workers: class actions and class arbitration. (Union rights and collective bargaining represent a third area, but […]

When Green Meets Blue: the Clean Power Plan and its Effect on Jobs

Feb 17, 2016 Hannah Belitz

The Clean Power Plan: An Overview On August 3, 2015, President Obama and the EPA announced the Clean Power Plan, an ambitious initiative to take action on climate change by reducing carbon pollution from power plants. It does so by establishing carbon pollution standards, called carbon dioxide (CO2) emission performance rates. States are required to […]

Guest Post: Working Class Politics after the Great Exception

Feb 2, 2016 Jefferson Cowie

Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman Chair at Vanderbilt University. In addition to the The Great Exception, Cowie is the author of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of The Working Class. It is difficult to imagine that in the last big Democratic primary back in 2008, people were talking about the […]

Labor Law and Political Entrenchment

Nov 23, 2015 Benjamin Sachs

My new article (with Daryl Levinson) is now available from the Yale Law Journal. The article, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, details the ways incumbents use substantive legal policy to entrench themselves in office. One of our lead case studies is labor law. We show, as one example, how white conservatives in the South during the 1940s used restrictive labor […]

White House Summit on Worker Voice

Oct 6, 2015 Benjamin Sachs

I’m heading to D.C. tonight to participate in a panel at tomorrow’s White House Summit on Worker Voice. The panel (which includes Mark Barenberg from Columbia Law School, Dorian Warren of the Roosevelt Institute, and Rep. Bobby Scott) will focus on how the law might change to better facilitate worker voice. As I see it, this […]

Guest Post: Should Municipal Bankruptcy be Allowed in Illinois?

May 5, 2015 David Skeel

David Skeel is a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. In her characteristically thoughtful post, Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson points out that Illinois cities might not alter their pensions (or might not alter them much) even if Illinois enacted legislation authorizing its cities to file for municipal bankruptcy. I think Professor Anderson is completely right […]

An Explainer: What's Happening In Wisconsin?

Mar 2, 2015 Rachel Homer

This past Thursday, the Wisconsin Senate passed a so-called “Right to Work” bill, leading to protests in the state’s capital. What Is Wisconsin’s “Right To Work” Bill? Once a union is recognized as the representative of a bargaining unit, that union is obligated to collectively bargain on behalf of all employees, not just union members. […]

Local Labor Law

Dec 4, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

Moshe Marvit has an interesting new piece in The Nation about a push to pass local (city- and county-level) right-to-work legislation. Marvit’s piece responds to a Heritage Foundation paper (by James Sherk and Andrew Kloster) that argues in favor of such legislation and to an upcoming ALEC meeting at which such legislation will be discussed. […]

Update: The Midterm Elections and the NLRB

Nov 14, 2014 Mark Kaltenbach

President Obama withdrew his nomination of Sharon Block to replace Nancy Schiffer on the NLRB when Schiffer’s term expires on December 16, 2014. He has nominated Lauren McFerran to the position instead On Tuesday, I wrote that Senate Democrats had to decide how to handle replacing NLRB Member Nancy Schiffer, whose term expires on December […]

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