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Janus and the Court’s Decision to Overrule Roe v. Wade

May 5, 2022 Andrew Strom

The country has been rocked by the news that the Supreme Court seems poised to issue a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that will overrule the 49 year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade guaranteeing the right to an abortion for women who can find a provider. (As a blog that deals with issues […]

May 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Happy May Day! Across the world, workers and unions are rallying to celebrate International Workers’ Day. Events and protests are planned throughout Europe and the rest of the world, stretching from Slovakia and the Czech Republic to France, Italy, Turkey, and the United States, commemorating the labor movement, honoring workers and their contributions to society, […]

April 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

The latest Starbucks store successfully voted to unionize 38-27 on Thursday. The store, a flagship Starbucks Reserve Roastery, and the first to open of only six Starbucks Reserve locations worldwide, is located in Starbucks’ hometown of Seattle, Washington. As voting continues across the more than 200 locations that have filed for union elections, Starbucks has […]

March 31, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument regarding whether a worker who has signed a private arbitration agreement, under which all legal disputes must be handled outside of court, may sue their employer in court under a California labor law that permits private people to bring a public enforcement action. The law, called the […]

March 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The New York Times reported that the White House will request that Congress pass a new minimum wealth tax on the ultra-rich as part of the Biden Administration’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Called the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the tax would stipulate that households worth more than $100 million pay a rate […]

March 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, the New York Times settles allegations of suppressing pro-union worker speech and the Supreme Court takes up a(nother) forced-arbitration dispute. The New York Times is at the center of another free-speech controversy. The Times recently agreed to stop illegally interfering with workers’ organizing rights by telling technology workers that they […]

March 20, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

This weekend, legislative kerfuffle over the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) – which Jason described for OnLabor earlier this month – continued. Last year, the USPS awarded Oshkosh Defense (a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation, a public conglomerate traded on the New York Stock exchange) a 10-year contract to produce a new fleet of delivery vehicles, which […]

PAGA at the Supreme Court: An Update on Viking River Cruises

Mar 16, 2022 Grace Bennett

On March 30, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana. The case focuses on whether California employers can force employees to waive their right to bring claims under the Private Attorney Generals Act, which allows California workers to sue their employers on behalf of the state for employment […]

March 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Forced arbitration denies workers their day in court. Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court has made it increasingly difficult for workers to avoid arbitration. This month, the Court will hear three more cases involving arbitration-related disputes. The first — Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. — concerns whether an employee must make an additional showing of […]

How Far Will the Court Go in Allowing Forced Arbitration for Workers?

Mar 10, 2022 Andrew Strom

Reading the briefs in Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, a case the Supreme Court will hear at the end of the month, I was reminded of two aphorisms. The first is “what a tangled web we weave when first we start to deceive,” and the second is Karl Marx’s observation that history repeats itself, the first […]

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How Far Will the Court Go in Allowing Forced Arbitration for Workers?