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August 31, 2023
News & Commentary

Michelle Berger

Greater overtime eligibility proposed; Ben Sachs talks union optimism; two changes to Board doctrine.

April 13, 2023
News & Commentary

Michelle Berger

No injunction in Michigan; Rutgers strike continues; Gen Z supports unions

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, […]

The Court’s “Major Questions Doctrine” Is a Canon of Deregulation — and Could Be Bad News for Labor

Jul 6, 2022 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Last week, in West Virginia v. EPA, the Court concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act when it sought to regulate carbon dioxide emissions through a cap-and-trade system. West Virginia already has the damaging effect of severely limiting the EPA’s ability to “respond to the most pressing […]

What’s Next For Labor Law Reform?

Mar 3, 2020 Charlotte Garden

A version of this article was originally published by The Century Foundation. Labor law reform is having a renaissance, and not a minute too late. For starters, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act—a bill that, if enacted, would be the most ambitious pro-union labor law reform since the […]

This Labor Day, A Clean Slate for Reform

Sep 3, 2018 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

As divided as we have become as a country, we arrive at this Labor Day with a shared national understanding: both economic and political power are wildly out of balance, with dire consequences for the vast majority of Americans who find themselves on the losing end of this imbalance. Wherever we live, and however we […]

August 31, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Governor Bruce Rauner (R) of Illinois vetoed a bill that would have allowed graduate research assistants at the state’s public universities to join labor unions. Currently, graduate teaching assistants — but not research assistants — at the University of Illinois are unionized with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) affiliate. […]

New Work Towards a New Labor Law

Aug 16, 2018 Sharon Block

The New York Times editorial last week celebrating the landslide victory of the ballot initiative to repeal Missouri’s right-to-work (for less) law was entitled, “The Wind at Labor’s Back.” Those words haven’t been put together in that order in a long time, as we have witnessed a decades-long decline in the size, power, and vitality […]

September 1, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

Yesterday, a federal judge invalidated the Obama administration’s overtime rule, which would have doubled the overtime salary threshold to around $47,000. The rule would have made around 4 million additional workers overtime eligible. In an 18-page opinion, Judge Amos Mazzant (E.D. Tex.) concluded that, while the FLSA gives the Labor Department authority to use a […]

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August 31, 2023

April 13, 2023

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

The Court’s “Major Questions Doctrine” Is a Canon of Deregulation — and Could Be Bad News for Labor

What’s Next For Labor Law Reform?

This Labor Day, A Clean Slate for Reform

August 31, 2018

New Work Towards a New Labor Law

September 1, 2017

UBI and Labor: How Does Major Change Happen?