October 27th 2021
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When I talk to union organizers, I often remind them that labor law is full of traps for the unwary, and the recent resignation of Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach Jon Gruden reminded me of one of those traps. Gruden resigned in the wake of revelations that he...
On Tuesday, former Apple employee Ashley Gjovik filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that certain company policies and statements from management that restrict disclosure of internal company information violate federal labor...
After more than a year of impasse at the bargaining table over “an assortment of pay and benefit issues,” nearly 1,500 Kellogg Company workers went on strike on Tuesday, halting production at all four of the multinational snack manufacturer’s U.S. factories,...
Today is the opening day of the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term. And, for the first time in years, the Court’s merits docket is bereft of disputes bearing directly on the rights of workers. The absence of labor and employment cases should be the subject of...
In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and...
After the Supreme Court announced in Janus that the First Amendment prohibits mandatory agency fees in the public sector, plaintiffs supported by right-to-work groups flooded the courts with related claims. At the time, we feared that these plaintiffs, aided...
Six U.S. senators, including Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have called on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate allegations that Amazon.com Inc. fails to make adequate provisions for pregnant employees at its...
Representatives from the People's Parity Project have argued that President Biden's bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform is missing a key constituency: women and working people. They note that the vast majority of people testifying before the Commission...
In the midst of The New York Times’ efforts to beat back a union drive among hundreds of its technology and product staffers, management-side lawyers representing the company accidentally leaked a private strategy memo to the union seeking to represent its...
Hours into his administration, President Biden fired the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) Trump-era general counsel (GC), Peter Robb. Upon Robb’s termination, many Republicans clamored that Biden’s move was inappropriate, divisive, even illegal. ...
Ben recently appeared on Dissent Magazine's Belabored podcast to discuss the fallout from Cedar Point v. Hassid, where the Supreme Court held that a California law requiring farmowners to allow union organizers onto their property to speak with workers was...
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...