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September 24, 2025
News & Commentary

Gurtaran Johal

The Trump administration proposes an overhaul to the H-1B process conditioning entry to the United States on a $100,000 fee; Amazon sues the New York State Public Employment Relations Board over a state law that claims authority over private-sector labor disputes; and Mayor Karen Bass signs an agreement with labor unions that protects Los Angeles city workers from layoffs.

An Article III Labor Court Is a Nonstarter

Sep 2, 2025 Samuel Estreicher, G. Roger King and David Sherwyn

This post is a response to Andrew Strom’s post, Why Not a Real Labor Court? In order to preserve the vital role the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA or Act) and its administrative agency, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), plays in effectuating the right of workers to form unions of […]

Labor Day 2.0: Reviving Worker Power through Sectoral Bargaining

Sep 1, 2025 Sharon Block and Seema Nanda

Decades of Labor Days have come and gone with no hope of labor law reform legislation moving through the U.S. Congress. Since the Taft-Hartley reforms of the 1940s, few issues have divided the parties more clearly than labor law reform. The last Republican to consider voting for comprehensive labor law reform was Arlen Specter — and then […]

July 15, 2025
News & Commentary

Miriam Li

The Department of Labor announces new guidance around Occupational Safety and Health Administration penalty and debt collection procedures; a Cornell University graduate student challenges graduate student employee-status under the National Labor Relations Act; the Supreme Court clears the way for the Trump administration to move forward with a significant staff reduction at the Department of Education.

The Lawsuit That Could Strip Over a Million Immigrants of Their Labor Protections

May 15, 2025 Tamara Shamir

In its final minutes in power, the increasingly anti-immigrant Biden administration snuck in a buzzer-beating act of mercy: extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from four countries. In early February, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security reversed these protections, threatening roughly a million immigrants with the loss of their legal status. The gravity of the […]

Towards Sustainable Labor Law Reform

May 12, 2025 Samuel Estreicher

Rather than a wish list of labor law reforms, we need “Labor Law Reform for the Long Haul”—sensible changes that can attract bipartisan support and that will not result in endless policy oscillation with each new administration. What follows is a sketch of some such changes; others are also possible. I. Bolstering the Acceptability/Durability of Secret-Ballot […]

Labor Law in Crisis: The Case for Worker Cooperatives

Mar 24, 2025 Riva Han

It’s dark days for the U.S. labor movement. Within weeks of taking office, President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Gwynne Wilcox without cause or due process—an unprecedented move that directly violates the statute establishing the Board as an independent agency. Although the District Court for the District of Columbia recently ordered Wilcox’s […]

Here’s How Loper Bright is Stripping Away Workers’ Rights

Oct 4, 2024 Andrew Strom

The Supreme Court’s opinion in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo was not exactly something most workers were likely to discuss in the break room. Every time I’ve tried to explain it to non-lawyers, I find myself struggling to explain the concept of “deference,” and what it means in the real world for courts to apply […]

The “Canada Problem” in Professional Sports Collective Bargaining, Part II

Jun 7, 2024 David Doorey

David Doorey on the application of the NLRA to Canadian employees.

Glacier Northwest Postscript Shows How Right Justice Jackson Was

Jan 16, 2024 Andrew Strom

Andrew Strom on the aftermath of Glacier Northwest and Justice Jackson's prescient dissent.

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