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At the NLRB, GOP Board Members Show How to Play Hard Ball

Dec 21, 2017 Andrew Strom

While the media was focusing on the drama over the Republican tax bill, last week the new Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board issued five decisions overturning precedents: UPMC, Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, The Boeing Company, Raytheon Company, and PCC Structurals, Inc. Sharon Block has provided a short summary of each of these cases […]

December 21, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

Both the House and Senate passed a tax reform bill, and President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law in the coming days. The plan provides significant tax cuts for businesses by slashing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. The plan also increases the standard deduction, reduces some of the individual […]

December 7, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

The Trump Administration has sided against public-sector unions by filing a brief in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees in support of a constitutional challenge to fair-share fees. While 28 states already have right-to-work laws, this case could outlaw fair-share fees and thereby impose right-to-work laws on public-sector unions in all […]

What Harvey Weinstein Has To Teach Us About the Weakness of Our Laws

Nov 28, 2017 Sharon Block

We clearly are in a different moment in the country now in how we respond to sexual harassment in the workplace. It is yet to be seen whether this moment will lead to something bigger and longer lasting. But one thing seems certain in the wake of this new moment – the law that is […]

It should be illegal to fire the cyclist who gave Trump the finger

Nov 8, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

Some more analysis, via the Washington Post, on political expression at work and how Trump is changing the interaction between constitutional rights and the private-sector workplace.

The Cyclist’s Middle Finger: Politics and Work Under Trump

Nov 6, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

Judging by the number of times it was viewed, this now-famous photograph of a lone cyclist flipping the bird to Donald Trump’s motorcade captured something a lot of people wish to express. But the woman in the photo has been fired for the gesture. Or, more specifically, she was fired for using the photograph […]

Standing or Kneeling: Who Can File a Charge Under the NLRA

Oct 16, 2017 Sharon Block

In addition to many POTUS tweets, the controversy over NFL players’ national anthem protest has also generated a number of interesting labor law questions, about which Ben has written. A new issue arose, however, in a curious exchange in the Bloomberg Daily Labor Report (subscription only) on Thursday about the charge filed with the National […]

Unity and the 1987 NFL Players’ Strike

Oct 3, 2017 Matthew Bodie

This past weekend saw a continuation of the remarkable show of solidarity amongst players in the National Football League. Prior to Donald Trump’s denouncing of former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, only a handful of players had joined Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem. Last Sunday’s games saw a dramatic change—many players knelt or […]

September 28, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

According to the New York Times, apprenticeships have the power to help Americans gain jobs and secure rising wages. This article details Destina Garcia, a woman who secured an apprenticeship as a community health worker and then secured a permanent job. President Trump has called on using federal job-training money to expand the number of […]

September 10, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

The Trump Administration’s announcement that it plans to end DACA has understandably been the topic of the moment (see our coverage here and here). At the Atlantic, Priscilla Alvarez profiles the fears and challenges “Dreamers” face in light of the announcement. “Where can ‘Dreamers’ put their trust?” Jose Antonio Vargas queries in a New York Times opinion […]

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