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This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

For those of us who support unions, we have an unfamiliar feeling this Labor Day. It’s a feeling of hope and celebration. This is unfamiliar territory because union organizing has been in a free fall for decades now. But we can smile this Labor Day because American workers have delivered a lot to celebrate and, […]

Sectoral Bargaining is Coming to New Zealand

May 21, 2021 Pauline Bomball

In a recent post on this blog, Dr David Madland examined the resurgence of interest in sectoral collective bargaining in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Support for sectoral bargaining has also gained traction in New Zealand in recent years, culminating in a proposal, by the New Zealand government, for the implementation […]

The Re-emergence of Sectoral Bargaining in the US, Britain, Australia and Canada

Apr 22, 2021 David Madland

Sectoral bargaining — which seeks to cover all workers in an industry or region with a collective bargaining agreement and ensure that similar work receives similar pay — has re-emerged as a political issue in the US as well as Britain, Australia, and Canada. As I highlight in my new book, Re-Union: How Bold Labor […]

Clean Slate and the Future of Labor Law Reform

Jan 19, 2021 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

One year ago, we released our Clean Slate for Worker Power report. The report opened by invoking the idea that concentrated economic and political power threatens the functioning of democracy. We recognized that this idea shaped the New Deal and led to the National Labor Relations Act’s historic protection for union organizing and collective bargaining. […]

Yet Another Reason Why We Need a Clean Slate for Labor Law

Aug 11, 2020 Andrew Strom

If there is a silver lining in the efforts of Donald Trump’s appointees to crank out as many anti-worker decisions as possible at the National Labor Relations Board, it is that each new decision highlights the need for a fundamental overhaul of our labor laws. Buried in a footnote in a blizzard of decisions issued […]

Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

Jul 13, 2020 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred multiple crises in our country including a public health crisis and an economic one. The need to protect the health of Americans and the need to protect their livelihoods might seem to require disparate approaches. But, as unlikely as it may seem, we believe that rewriting the rules of how […]

July 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer contraception mandate. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence […]

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening

May 20, 2020 Sharon Block, Brishen Rogers and Benjamin Sachs

As the country moves toward “reopening,” we face a critical pair of questions. The first is how businesses can begin operating again while ensuring the safety of the millions of workers who will return to their jobs. It is clear that we cannot rely on the Trump administration to accomplish this crucial task – after […]

Implications for Corporate Governance Reform of the (Almost) First Food Delivery App Union

May 18, 2020 Tara Boghosian

It was supposed to be the first union for food delivery app couriers in North America. In February 2020, the labor relations board for the Canadian province of Ontario found that couriers working for Foodora, a food delivery app, were eligible to unionize. Yet, before the union votes could even be counted, Foodora announced in […]

Shelter From the Storm

May 4, 2020 Charlotte Garden

For many of us, our main contribution to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic is staying home. Many governors have issued orders to “shelter in place,” borrowing the term from natural disaster response. That is, stay where you are, leave only if absolutely necessary. This post considers what it would mean to apply the same […]

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This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sectoral Bargaining is Coming to New Zealand

The Re-emergence of Sectoral Bargaining in the US, Britain, Australia and Canada

Clean Slate and the Future of Labor Law Reform

Yet Another Reason Why We Need a Clean Slate for Labor Law

Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

July 9, 2020

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening

Implications for Corporate Governance Reform of the (Almost) First Food Delivery App Union

Shelter From the Storm