What the OnlyFans Saga Says About Financial Institutions’ Power Over Sex Workers
On August 19th, OnlyFans—a London-based company popularized for its subscription-based user content—announced its plan to ban media that “shows, promotes, advertises, or refers to real or simulated sex.” While the site later suspended its plans after backlash from...
Today’s News & Commentary — October 4, 2021
The results of the IATSE strike vote came in yesterday, and they were emphatic: over 98% voted to authorize a nationwide strike in the film and television industry. Perhaps even more encouraging for the union is that voter turnout was nearly 90% despite there being...
Today’s News & Commentary — October 4, 2021
Today is the opening day of the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term. And, for the first time in years, the Court’s merits docket is bereft of disputes bearing directly on the rights of workers. The absence of labor and employment cases should be the subject of...
Joy Silk Can’t Help the Workers in Bessemer. What Can?
The Joy Silk doctrine—which would raise the penalty for employers who commit unfair labor practices in the run-up to a representation election, and thus provide a powerful deterrent—is poised for a comeback. The new NLRB General Counsel, Jennfier Abruzzo, has...
Weekend News & Commentary — October 3, 2021
The big story this weekend comes out of Washington. The terse negotiations currently unfolding within the Democratic Party are somewhat complicated – but deeply, if indirectly, implicate unions and the labor movement – so it might be helpful to offer some...
Today’s News and Commentary — October 1, 2021
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), responded to a letter by members of Congress urging the FTC (and the DOJ) to implement certain changes in order to protect workers organizing from antitrust enforcement. As Nikita explained in a previous post,...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 30, 2021
In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
NLRB General Counsel on Players at Academic Institutions
As Fred reported earlier this morning, Board GC Abruzzo has released a memo in which she states her position that "the scholarship football players at issue in Northwestern University, and similarly situated Players at Academic Institutions, are employees under the...
What the OnlyFans Saga Says About Financial Institutions’ Power Over Sex Workers
On August 19th, OnlyFans—a London-based company popularized for its subscription-based user content—announced its plan to ban media that “shows, promotes, advertises, or refers to real or simulated sex.” While the site later suspended its plans after backlash from...
Today’s News & Commentary — October 4, 2021
The results of the IATSE strike vote came in yesterday, and they were emphatic: over 98% voted to authorize a nationwide strike in the film and television industry. Perhaps even more encouraging for the union is that voter turnout was nearly 90% despite there being...
Today’s News & Commentary — October 4, 2021
Today is the opening day of the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term. And, for the first time in years, the Court’s merits docket is bereft of disputes bearing directly on the rights of workers. The absence of labor and employment cases should be the subject of...
Joy Silk Can’t Help the Workers in Bessemer. What Can?
The Joy Silk doctrine—which would raise the penalty for employers who commit unfair labor practices in the run-up to a representation election, and thus provide a powerful deterrent—is poised for a comeback. The new NLRB General Counsel, Jennfier Abruzzo, has...
Weekend News & Commentary — October 3, 2021
The big story this weekend comes out of Washington. The terse negotiations currently unfolding within the Democratic Party are somewhat complicated – but deeply, if indirectly, implicate unions and the labor movement – so it might be helpful to offer some...
Today’s News and Commentary — October 1, 2021
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), responded to a letter by members of Congress urging the FTC (and the DOJ) to implement certain changes in order to protect workers organizing from antitrust enforcement. As Nikita explained in a previous post,...
Today’s News & Commentary—September 30, 2021
In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
NLRB General Counsel on Players at Academic Institutions
As Fred reported earlier this morning, Board GC Abruzzo has released a memo in which she states her position that "the scholarship football players at issue in Northwestern University, and similarly situated Players at Academic Institutions, are employees under the...
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