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Continuing the Labor Law Reform Debate in 2018

Jan 3, 2018 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

By Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs In September, we shared our plan to hold a symposium at Harvard Law on the question of whether it is time to end labor preemption. The symposium brought together leading labor law scholars and practitioners to wrestle with this big question. To help give context to the symposium discussion, we had asked several […]

December 27, 2017
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

The Atlantic reports that the #metoo movement has yet to deliver justice for low-wage workers who are victims of sexual harassment. The piece explains that sexual harassment is rampant in low-wage industries–50% of workers in the restaurant industry reported facing “scary” or “unwanted” sexual advances in a 2014 report–the difficulty in proving claims and risk […]

At the NLRB, GOP Board Members Show How to Play Hard Ball

Dec 21, 2017 Andrew Strom

While the media was focusing on the drama over the Republican tax bill, last week the new Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board issued five decisions overturning precedents: UPMC, Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, The Boeing Company, Raytheon Company, and PCC Structurals, Inc. Sharon Block has provided a short summary of each of these cases […]

Miscimarra’s Parting Shot: Was It a December Massacre?

Dec 19, 2017 Sharon Block

In recent years, the end of a National Labor Relations Board member’s term occasioned an odd death watch for controversial precedent. Last week, Board Chair Phil Miscimarra finished his term with a flurry of big decisions, including five cases that overturned very significant precedent. In every one of the precedent-reversing cases, the Board split along […]

December 13, 2017
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board will publish a Request for Information in the Federal Register, asking for public input regarding the Board’s 2014 “Quickie Election” Rule. The amendments, which took effect on April 14, 2015, allowed union organizing to move at an accelerated pace by, among other things, significantly reducing the time between the […]

Why Not Hold Union Representation Elections on a Regular Schedule?

Nov 1, 2017 Andrew Strom

When the Obama NLRB modernized the Board’s election rules and eliminated some unnecessary delays, employers characterized the result as “ambush elections,” and insisted they would no longer have enough time to wage their anti-union campaigns. Even though the NLRB found substantial evidence that employers are generally aware of union organizing drives long before an election […]

October 31, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it will nominate Scott Mugno to lead the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Mugno, a safety official at FedEx Corporation, is an attorney who has worked at FedEx since 1994. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein’s firing (which we discussed here), and as details […]

September 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

American cities are going wild as Amazon looks for a place to build its second headquarters and employ 50,000 people. Tucson businessmen sent a 21-foot cactus to Jeff Bezos’ office. Philadelphia and Tulsa have expressed openness to modifying their tax codes. Canadian cities, meanwhile, highlight their more stable political environment and looser immigration policy. Contemplating […]

September 19, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Today, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will hold a hearing on the Trump administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominations. Janet Dhillon and Daniel Gade are the nominees. Dhillon, who is currently the general counsel of Burlington Stores, began her career at a large corporate law firm before transitioning in-house. She […]

September 18, 2017
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

Last Thursday, a new union of nontenure-track faculty at Northwestern University filed a charge with the NLRB that accused the university of violating labor laws by refusing to bargain over a first contract. The Chicago Tribune reports that the NLRB certified the election in May 2017, after months of delay caused by contested ballots, but […]

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