OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Tag:joy silk

August 25, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

NLRB revives Joy Silk; OSHA gives options for worker heat stress rule; DOJ sues SpaceX for asylee and refugee discrimination.

Is Joy Silk on the Menu at Starbucks?

Oct 28, 2022 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

A recent ALJ decision gives the NLRB an opportunity to reconsider its remedial certification decisions.

June 26, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday, in news that has roiled the country and much of the Western world, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion and peeling back decades of women’s rights and autonomy in a raw exercise of judicial power that is shocking […]

April 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

A brief filed this week by NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo called for the reinstatement of the Joy Silk doctrine, Bloomberg Law reports. Currently, a bargaining order may only issue in cases where an “employer’s misdeeds are so widespread they make a fair election impossible,” a standard which the brief argues has “failed to deter […]

February 7, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

The White House’s Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released a detailed report this morning containing nearly 70 recommendations to spur unionization in the private and public sectors. Formed last April, the Task Force was tasked with “mobilizing the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize and successfully bargain with […]

October 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

In response to the historic unionization drive in Buffalo, Starbucks management has seemingly launched a “counteroffensive … intended to intimidate workers, disrupt normal operations and undermine support for the union.” Starbucks headquarters has sent two managers—imported from out of state—into three Buffalo area stores that have separately filed for union elections with the NLRB. Michelle […]

Joy Silk Can’t Help the Workers in Bessemer. What Can?

Oct 4, 2021 Jon Levitan

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 signaled that she intends to revive the 70 year-old doctrine. Joy Silk requires that when […]

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.

Learn more about OnLabor

Copyright © 2025 OnLabor. All rights reserved.

OnLabor is unable to accept unsolicited submissions.

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Contact: [email protected]
Site design: Jon White Studio

Sections

All Editorial Writing
All News & Commentary
From The Editor
From Senior Contributors
Analysis From Guest Voices
OnLabor In The News
All Featured Coverage
About

Connect

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Search for: