The Ideal ‘Right to Strike’ Would Merge the Strengths of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Law Models Canadian and U.S. labor law can each learn from the other about how to better protect workers' right to strike
Striketober Must Have Really Scared the Supreme Court Worker strikes in the U.S. are already rare measures of last resort. The Supreme Court might decide to discourage them even further.
October 23, 2022 News & Commentary The American Prospect: Using Policy to Reorganize Power; SEIU-UHW's minimum wage campaign for California healthcare workers
October 21, 2022 News & Commentary GC Abruzzo releases a memo on 10(j) settlements; Amazon workers vote against unionization; internal Starbucks survey shows office workers’ faith in the company is at an all-time low
October 16, 2022 News & Commentary Apple retail employees in OKC unionize; Amazon union vote near Albany underway; WaPo profiles NLRB GC Abruzzo
October 14, 2022 News & Commentary Starbucks fights NLRB over mail-in voting, while closing another unionized store; another rail union ratifies the tentative agreement
October 13, 2022 News & Commentary Amazon workers stage walk-out; NLRB judge: Starbucks violated labor law (again); Home Depot workers to vote in union election; NLRB judge lays groundwork for potential Joy Silk revival
October 11, 2022 News & Commentary Third-largest rail union rejects tentative agreement; University of Minn. voters authorize a strike; a critique of the "freedom to contract" model
October 10, 2022 News & Commentary Another NLRB complaint against Starbucks; more on Howard Schultz's anti-unionism; the plight of immigrant workers after Hurricane Ian
Supreme Court Grants Cert in Glacier Northwest The Supreme Court takes on its first major labor law case of the Term.