March 4, 2024 News & Commentary Dartmouth University files a motion to stay the men’s basketball team’s unionization election scheduled for tomorrow; Kentucky’s House of Representatives will consider a bill that repeals mandatory lunch and rest breaks; Georgia’s State Senate passes a bill requiring secret-ballot elections for companies that accept state incentives
The Death of the Non-Compete Clause May Be Imminent Sandeep Vaheesan and Daniel Hanley on the coercive nature of non-compete clauses and recent efforts to outlaw such contracts.
February 25, 2024 News & Commentary Starbucks challenges the constitutionality of the NLRB; Swedish economists debate Tesla’s anti-collective bargaining stance; Gina Carano claims she was fired by Disney and Lucasfilm for expressing her political views.
February 22, 2024 News & Commentary NLRB orders Home Depot to reinstate employee fired for wearing BLM logo, and Senate headed to another vote on acting Secretary Su’s nomination.
February 21, 2024 News & Commentary SCOTUS heard oral arguments on the FAA exemption involving transportation workers; Fifth Circuit allowed SpaceX's lawsuit challenging the NLRB to stay in Texas.
Tracking Attacks on the NLRB: Amazon Invokes the Major Questions Doctrine John Fry on the major questions doctrine as a threat to labor law.
February 18, 2024 News & Commentary UAW plans to strike at a Kentucky Ford factory; Amazon claims that the NLRB is unconstitutional; and Starbucks shareholders push for disclosure of company’s spending on union-busting.
Tracking Attacks on the NLRB As companies increasingly attack the NLRB's constitutionality, OnLabor's John Fry will begin writing a new series titled "Tracking Attacks on the NLRB" to cover the arguments and implications of these challenges to the Board's structure.
February 6, 2024 News & Commentary Vegas hospitality workers call off strike, the NLRB rules that Dartmouth basketball players can unionize, and German airline workers plan for strike.
February 4, 2024 News & Commentary Ridehail drivers and union leaders sue to block Massachusetts ballot initiative that would define ridehail drivers as independent contractors; the Washington Post analyzes 2023 data on child labor; and the NLRB accuses the Washington Post of violating labor law by refusing to bargain with its employees’ union over return to office.
