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Roundtable on Law and Countervailing Power

Jul 7, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

At a moment when many are looking for new strategies to advance progressive political goals, The American Prospect and The Forge have published a roundtable-style discussion based on Kate Andrias’s and my article Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality. In addition to Kate and me, the roundtable featured Steve […]

Mexico Labor Law Reform & the USMCA — An American Explainer

Jun 3, 2022 Maxwell Ulin

Last month, U.S. trade authorities filed a complaint with Mexican officials to address labor violations at a major Panasonic auto plant in Mexico. The petition marks the third U.S. labor rights complaint against Mexico under the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which established new measures to ensure that Mexico follows through on promised union law reforms. […]

May 20, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary, NLRB prosecutors plan to issue a complain against Amazon for unfair labor practices; Starbucks defends its captive audience meetings; and NLRB Prosecutors lay out their legal theory for why workers wearing Black Lives Matter buttons could be protected activity under the NLRA. NLRB prosecutors intend on issuing a complaint against […]

Federal Court Upholds New York’s Just Cause Protections for Fast Food Workers

May 9, 2022 Sarah Leadem

On February 11, 2022, the Southern District Court of New York preserved just cause protections for fast food workers in Restaurant Law Center v. City of New York. This decision lands a significant blow to the norm of at-will employment and is a boon to just cause advocacy in other cities and industries. The subject […]

April 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday, the NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released an important memorandum in which she stated her intent to ask the Board to rule that captive audience meetings, and other mandatory meetings where the employer presents anti-union rhetoric, violate the NLRA. The GC memo classifies unlawful mandatory meetings as those where employees are either forced to […]

March 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Thursday, tech workers at The New York Times overwhelmingly voted to certify their union – the Times Tech Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York (which also represents Times editorial workers) – as their exclusive collective bargaining representative in an NLRB election. The Times Tech Guild, which will represent the nearly-600 […]

Congressman Andy Levin’s Case for the PRO Act

Mar 2, 2022 Congressman Andy Levin and Colton Puckett

This is a condensed version of an article published in the March 2022 issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Despite increasing public support for unions, nationwide union membership is at its lowest point since 1936, one year after the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or “Wagner Act”). Since then, anti-worker legislation, […]

Mapping Union Activity at Amazon — February 21, 2022

Feb 21, 2022 Kevin Vazquez

This post is the second of an ongoing OnLabor feature that will update readers on union developments at Amazon. Here is the first. A second group of Amazon workers will officially have the opportunity to vote for union representation. Last Thursday, on February 16, the NLRB released a Stipulated Election Agreement between Amazon and the […]

The Battle Over Bargaining Units

Feb 15, 2022 Andrew Strom

In American Steel Construction, the National Labor Relations Board will once again decide how much it will tolerate employer litigation over bargaining units as an antiunion weapon. The National Labor Relations Act was supposed to give workers a voice in governing their workplaces, but only six percent of private-sector workers in this country have the right […]

February 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The New York Times published an exposé on Kroger, the U.S.’s largest supermarket chain and the fourth-largest employer in the Fortune 500, whose tremendous financial success during the pandemic has not translated into improved wages and working conditions for many of its employees. While Kroger, whose stock has risen about 36% over the past year, […]

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