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Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

Jul 13, 2020 Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred multiple crises in our country including a public health crisis and an economic one. The need to protect the health of Americans and the need to protect their livelihoods might seem to require disparate approaches. But, as unlikely as it may seem, we believe that rewriting the rules of how […]

January 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Babb v. Wilkie. The question before the Court was whether federal workers alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must show that the adverse action would not have happened “but for” their age, or whether the government can be held liable if age […]

January 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

More than 32,000 teachers in Los Angeles went on strike yesterday asking for higher pay, smaller class sizes, and schools fully staffed with nurses, counselors, and librarians. After negotiations stalled between the school district and the teachers’ union, United Teachers Los Angeles, an overwhelming 98% of teachers voted to authorize a strike. LAUSD is the […]

Kavanaugh Nomination: What’s at Stake for Federal Sector Collective Bargaining

Aug 28, 2018 Sharon Block

If you can define success as preventing something bad from happening, the labor movement notched a victory Saturday morning for public sector collective bargaining rights. D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a strongly worded opinion, invalidating the Trump administration’s executive orders that sought to rewrite the rules for federal sector collective bargaining. When […]

June 28, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

“The day that organized labor has been dreading for several years is finally here,” Sarah Jaffe writes at the Times’ opinion page. Jaffe is one of many arguing that workers and their unions must get back to basics — to old fashioned organizing, to strikes modeled on the recent teacher actions — in order to […]

April 24, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

“Public Servants Are Losing Their Foothold in the Middle Class” was the front page headline of the New York Times yesterday. The Times reported that the “steady erosion of the public sector” has contributed to the decline of the middle class in recent decades. Severe budget cuts have reduced government jobs such that state and […]

Will Masterpiece Cakeshop and Janus Create a First Amendment Right to Strike for Teachers?

Apr 5, 2018 Andrew Strom

Sometime in the next few weeks, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, one of the most closely watched cases of this Term. In that case, Jack Phillips, the co-owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, argues that the State of Colorado violated his First Amendment rights when it […]

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Why Workers Need Voice on the Job Now More than Ever

January 16, 2020

January 15, 2019

Kavanaugh Nomination: What’s at Stake for Federal Sector Collective Bargaining

June 28, 2018

April 24, 2018

Will Masterpiece Cakeshop and Janus Create a First Amendment Right to Strike for Teachers?