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Sharon Block Returns to Harvard as Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program

Mar 18, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

I am so happy to share with OnLabor readers the news that Sharon Block is returning to Harvard Law School as a professor of practice and the Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program. Sharon’s return is a great boon for labor law at Harvard and an incredible opportunity for us to consider the […]

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 […]

May 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The Clean Slate for Worker Power released a series of reports on Tuesday providing in-depth analysis and explanation of key policy recommendations designed to achieve fundamental labor law reform. The exciting new reports focus primarily on developing sectoral bargaining systems, expanding the scope of mandatory subjects of bargaining to include, among other things, decisions about […]

Renewing Interest in Interest Arbitration: First Contract Arbitration and the PRO Act

Apr 16, 2021 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

The reintroduction and passing of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act in the House last month offers some first steps on a path to reversing the dwindling power of unions in the U.S., and with it the growing economic and political inequality that the decades of decline in worker power has precipitated. One […]

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 […]

June 24, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Clean Slate for Worker Power released a report today outlining recommendations for empowering worker voices and building a more equitable economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The report focuses on various threats COVID poses to working people: not just threats to health and safety, but also limits on worker organizing imposed by social […]

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Sharon Block Returns to Harvard as Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program

Sectoral Bargaining is Coming to New Zealand

May 5, 2021

Renewing Interest in Interest Arbitration: First Contract Arbitration and the PRO Act

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

June 24, 2020

What’s Next For Labor Law Reform?