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Childcare Organizing—Meeting Unique Challenges with Innovative Strategy

Oct 20, 2021 Alex Blutman

Labor activism and organizing has flourished recently, as the pandemic exacerbated fractures in various industries that jumpstarted organizing. The shockwaves were also felt in childcare, where high costs, low wages, and staffing problems worsened, yet the associated organizing surge was more difficult to spot. What does successful organizing look like in childcare now? Our flawed […]

August 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

In the aftermath of the unexpected death of Richard Trumka on Thursday, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., as noted by the New York Times earlier today, faces a moment of decision – a “crossroads,” in the words of the Times. Despite Trumka’s impassioned and experienced leadership, his 12-year tenure at the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. coincided with the […]

July 29, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Employee are fighting back against Activision Blizzard, one of the largest companies in the world, as it continues to reel over recent revelations of rampant sexual harassment and discrimination. The video game company, known for its production of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, was sued by the State of California. Allegations against the […]

July 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In an awaited decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a series of Arizona laws restricting voting access—which have a disparate impact on voters of color—did not violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). The first of these restrictions nullified any ballots cast at the wrong precinct. 10,979 such ballots were discarded in […]

The NLRB’s unjustified expansion of Catholic Bishop is a threat to all employees at religious institutions.

May 24, 2021 Ross Slaughter

Should workers lose the protections of labor law simply because they work for religious organizations? As Jenny explained, the Supreme Court has become increasingly receptive to employers’ religious objections to laws governing the workplace. But at least these claims require employers to point to a specific religious exercise that the law burdens. It is something […]

Law and Organizing for Countervailing Power

Mar 26, 2021 Kate Andrias and Benjamin Sachs

This post was originally published on the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project Blog. Readers of this blog need no reminder of the pervasive inequalities that define American society. Nor do readers need to be convinced that a perverse concentration of wealth has had profoundly corrosive effects on the viability of American democracy. In a […]

March 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

The anniversary of the first lockdowns in the United States approaches, but even as optimism concerning the possibility of returning to “normal” mounts, many companies plan to retain work-from-home models regardless of the status of the pandemic. In a Stanford and University of Chicago survey of over 17,000 workers, 27.3% said they would prefer to […]

Law and Political Organizing

Feb 4, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

Kate Andrias and I have a new law review article out today showing how legal systems can be designed to fuel political organizing by the poor and working class. The article, Constructing Countervailing Power: Law and Organizing in an Era of Political Inequality is available here. The abstract is below: This Article proposes an innovative […]

The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Oct 28, 2020 Andrew Strom

If Joe Biden wins the Presidential election and the Democrats win control of the Senate, then the Trump National Labor Relations Board will soon be just a bad memory. But, the D.C. Circuit’s recent decision in Davidson Hotel Co. v. NLRB is a reminder that changing the composition of the NLRB will not, by itself, […]

Peter Robb’s Vacuous Attack on Voluntary Recognition Agreements

Sep 21, 2020 Andrew Strom

Thanks to Donald Trump and Republican Senators, Peter Robb is the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, the most powerful position at the agency. Robb oversees the hundreds of lawyers and investigators who are charged with protecting the rights of workers “to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives […]

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Childcare Organizing—Meeting Unique Challenges with Innovative Strategy

August 8, 2021

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The NLRB’s unjustified expansion of Catholic Bishop is a threat to all employees at religious institutions.

Law and Organizing for Countervailing Power

March 1, 2021

Law and Political Organizing

The D.C. Circuit Reminds Us How Hard it Will be to Restore the Right to Organize

Peter Robb’s Vacuous Attack on Voluntary Recognition Agreements