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Overturning Ex-Cell-O in the Wake of Jarkesy

Dec 23, 2025 Hugh O'Neil

An employer that refuses to bargain with a union violates NLRA §8(a)(5) — the duty to bargain in good faith. The only remedy available to a union faced with an employer’s 8(a)(5) violation is a bargaining order. But §8(a)(5) already requires the parties to bargain — a bargaining order remedies nothing. Capitalizing on the impotence of the remedy, […]

Foster Care Parents and the Push for Collective Bargaining Rights

Dec 22, 2025 Mila Rostain

Massachusetts struggles to recruit and retain qualified foster parents. Foster parents, including licensed kinship caregivers, provide temporary homes to children in the custody of the state. By some reports, Massachusetts has lower rates of kinship foster care than other states. Foster parents receive stipends, ranging from $34.12 to $40.39 per day, which are often well below the […]

Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Sectoral Strategies and Worker Democracy

Dec 22, 2025 Sharon Block, Seema Nanda, Rajesh Nayak and Benjamin Sachs

This post launches a new series exploring how states and cities can expand worker power in the United States. The series is grounded in a set of working papers and policy briefs that offer creative approaches for state and local action in a time when the federal labor law framework is increasingly unreliable. Each post […]

Hospitals Become Sites of Confrontation for Healthcare Workers and Immigration Agents

Dec 19, 2025 Ariel Boone

On January 20, 2025, the Trump administration rescinded a longstanding policy which previously protected “sensitive” areas like hospitals and clinics from immigration enforcement. Stripped of these protections, healthcare workers and noncitizen patients now face escalating intrusions by federal agents. Masked ICE agents are entering hospitals and clinics, refusing to show identification, surveilling patients, and stopping workers from […]

The Boss Has Entered the Chat

Dec 18, 2025 Paneez Oliai

In recognition of the “inequality of bargaining power” between employees and employers, Congress protected workers’ rights to participate in concerted activity as defined by § 7 of the NLRA. Yet employers have long sought to limit the scope of § 7 protections. Now, a set of firings by a Vermont-based company has forced the D.C. […]

The Untapped Potential of Rideshare Take-Rate Disclosure Requirements

Dec 17, 2025 Mila Rostain

Rideshare drivers are winning through the legislative process. In the last year, two states have enacted pathways to unionization. Unionizing is critical, but drivers need additional structural changes if they are to curb the largely unchecked power of gig corporations and win meaningful improvements in the terms and conditions of their work. One such structural change is access to […]

Trademark Times: The Use of Logos to Union Bust

Dec 16, 2025 Madeline Cargill

Union busting is old as unionization itself. From illegal actions like terminating union organizers to sometimes-permissible sometimes-impermissible tactics like captive audience meetings, employers consistently attempt to deter and defeat union drives. Recently, an older tactic has reemerged: trademark infringement lawsuits. Noteworthy employers like Medieval Times, Starbucks, and Trader Joe’s have all brought lawsuits against their respective […]

The Employee-Ownership Mirage: Private Equity’s Latest PR Strategy

Dec 15, 2025 Nikishka Iyengar

For an industry that employs roughly 12 million people in the United States, or about 8% of the labor force, the fundamentals of how private equity operates remain notoriously opaque. The big headlines about deals gone wrong — Toys “R” Us collapsing after a leveraged buyout, private equity firms buying up housing stock, Deadspin abruptly […]

The Faculty Union Seesaw

Dec 12, 2025 Otto Barenberg

Independent monitors. Restrictions on protest and dissent. Censorship of curricula. Firings of professors for classroom speech. Long in the crosshairs of the conservative movement, colleges and universities have been hit by a barrage of Trump Administration-led attacks on academic freedom, shared governance, and the mission of higher education. The assault has at once revealed faculties’ lack of control over university decision-making and spurred university administrators […]

NLRB, RIP

Dec 11, 2025 Andrew Strom

The oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter removed any doubt that the six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court are eager to deliver a death blow to independent administrative agencies as they have existed for the past 135 years. And, two Trump appointees on the D.C. Circuit, anticipating the Supreme Court’s ruling, held, in Wilcox v. Trump, that the Constitution […]

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