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Fast-Food Strikes and the Minimum Wage

Aug 9, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

Sam linked to Jared Bernstein’s Economix piece today on the fast-food strikes and the feasibility of minimum wage hikes. Those interested in this debate should also take a look at Megan McArdle’s review of the issue at BloombergView.

The Court and the Future of Unions: Private Sector Edition

Aug 9, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

This Term, the Court will hear what could be the most significant labor law case in a generation. The case is Mulhall v. Unite HERE Local 355 and it involves the ability of unions and management to set alternative ground rules for union organizing campaigns. Because essentially all successful union organizing campaigns today are conducted […]

Equal Treatment: Union and Corporate Politics

Aug 8, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

In an opinion piece yesterday, the Wall Street Journal attacks a proposal that the SEC require public companies to disclose political spending. One prong of the Journal’s attack is that “no such regulation” applies to labor unions. But this statement, like many in the public debate about political disclosure, rests on the flawed assumption that […]

Why I Am Blogging About Labor

Aug 8, 2013 Jack Goldsmith

My academic fields of expertise are at the intersection of national security law and international law, and I already blog at a site devoted to these topics. One thus might wonder why I am participating in this blog on labor law and politics. The short answer is that I grew up in a labor family, I have […]

Welcome to On Labor

Aug 8, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

Welcome to On Labor, a new blog by Jack Goldsmith and myself dedicated to current developments in the world of workers, unions, and politics. Labor is a complicated field today. Complicated because the traditional labor movement is in dramatic decline, and, on some accounts, on the brink of disappearing entirely. The decline of unions – […]

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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