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The NLRB Can Do Better When it Comes to Protecting Work Stoppages

Aug 18, 2023 Andrew Strom

Andrew Strom on the NLRB's recent ten-factor test in its recent Serta decision.

November 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Biden NLRB proposes changes to its decertification rules; Ontario education workers plan to strike in the face of legislation threatening fines of $4,000/day per worker; Illinois voters gear up for a constitutional amendment to ban right-to-work laws in the state

September 26, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: Union workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art strike for better wages and healthcare; and a “Workers’ Right Amendment” will be on the ballot in Illinois this fall. Nearly 200 union workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are set to strike today, as contract negotiations with the Museum’s management […]

March 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

New York has started manufacturing its own hand sanitizer in an effort to save costs amid widespread shortages and price gouging as fears over a coronavirus outbreak spread. It will produce 100,000 gallons per week and distribute it to state run agencies and schools. How has New York managed to produce the hand sanitizer so […]

Respecting the Right to Strike at Harvard

Dec 16, 2019 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Laura Weinrib

According to the Crimson, Harvard has circulated an email advising departments seeking to hire spring teaching fellows (and other student workers) to include certain language in job postings and offer letters. The Crimson reports that the email “recommends departments include a provision in postings and offer letters that conditions teaching fellow positions on whether candidates […]

Harvard Grad Students Announce Strike Authorization Vote

Oct 10, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

Harvard University’s graduate student union (HGSU-UAW) has announced that they will hold a strike authorization vote beginning October 15. A two-thirds vote of the membership will allow the negotiating committee to call a strike. I thought it might be useful to reiterate two very basic points in the lead-up to the authorization vote and possible […]

August 30, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

A new Gallup poll finds that Americans’ support for labor unions continues to remain high at 62 percent approval. This year’s level of support is the highest since 2003, when 65 percent of Americans approved of organized labor, and is on par with last year’s 61 percent figure. The same poll indicates that 39 percent […]

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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The NLRB Can Do Better When it Comes to Protecting Work Stoppages

November 4, 2022

September 26, 2022

March 10, 2020

Respecting the Right to Strike at Harvard

Harvard Grad Students Announce Strike Authorization Vote

August 30, 2018

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