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The Verizon Strike, The Virtual Picket Line, & The Labor Movement

May 4, 2016 Jon Weinberg

36,000 Verizon workers across the Northeastern United States are currently on strike in the largest American work stoppage since 2011. The workers, represented by the Communication Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, are primarily motivated by concerns about job protection from outsourcing and the creation of well-paying jobs via expansion of services. […]

Use and Abuse of the Non-Compete: When Employers Utilize Non-Compete Clauses to Undercut Vulnerable Workers

May 3, 2016 Hannah Belitz

The use of non-compete clauses in the United States is fairly widespread. Recent research suggests that 18 percent of all workers, or nearly 30 million people, are covered by non-compete agreements. These agreements are, at least in theory, primarily intended to protect trade secrets: they prevent employees from taking proprietary information to a firm’s competitor. […]

College Athletes’ Next Play

May 2, 2016 Edward Nasser

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which brings in nearly $1 billion a year in revenue, faces increasing scrutiny of its business model in the media and in courts. Administrators, athletic directors, and coaches are handsomely paid, but players can earn no income beyond academic scholarships and stipends. Advocates argue that athletes are the economic […]

Arizona as a Test Case for Immigration Effects on Employment

Apr 29, 2016 Lauren Godles

In Arizona, between 2007 and 2012, the number of undocumented immigrants dropped by forty percent. The exodus has been largely attributed to two sweeping laws targeting undocumented immigrants: the Legal Arizona Worker’s Act (LAWA) (2008) and the controversial SB 1070 law (2010), which advocates on both sides of the issue called “the broadest and strictest […]

Enforcing Seattle’s Minimum Wage Law

Apr 28, 2016 Edward Nasser

April 1st marked the one-year anniversary of the effective date of Seattle’s headline-making minimum wage law. The law mandated a graduated increase to $15/hour by 2018 for employers with more than 500 employees and 2021 for all employers with less. New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. have followed with their own variations. […]

Gig News: Uber Settlement Raises Questions on Monetary Payments and Tipping

Apr 27, 2016 Jon Weinberg

The recent settlement announced between Uber and drivers in California and Massachusetts in suits over driver classification (analyzed here) continues to receive extensive coverage. While questions about the “drivers’ association” have been highlighted in recent commentary, controversy has also arisen over the settlement amounts and how the settlement treats the tipping of drivers. Settlement Amounts […]

Second Circuit Drops the Ball on Workers’ Rights

Apr 27, 2016 Benjamin Levin

Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. That sound you hear isn’t the air being let out of footballs. It’s the collective groans of New England Patriots fans. On Monday, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension […]

The Brady Decision is Good for Unions

Apr 26, 2016 Andrew Strom

The National Football League is celebrating its victory at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals over the NFL Players’ Association in the case involving the four-game suspension of Tom Brady. But, while the Player’s Association may have lost, they accomplished two important things in their defeat. First, they called attention to fundamental flaws in the […]

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 […]

Teamsters to form its own Uber "Drivers' Association" in Cal.

Apr 22, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

On a day of huge Uber news, there’s another interesting item. According to a Teamsters’ press release, Teamsters Joint Council 7 “notified Uber of their intent to organize California drivers” yesterday – the day before Uber announced its intent to create a drivers’ association (as part of the O’Connor settlement). As the union press release states, “After receiving overwhelming outreach […]

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