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January 24, 2018
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

Slate’s editorial staff voted 45-7 to unionize with the Writers Guild of America East, the company’s organizing committee announced, reports Splinter. Slate’s bargaining unit includes all but six senior newsroom employees and six podcast staffers. It does not count employees at Panoply, a podcast network that is part of the Slate Group but produces programs […]

January 22, 2018
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

Public Citizen filed a lawsuit on January 19th asking Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to turn over copies of forms employers were required to file with the government. In 2017, for the first time, OSHA required companies with 250 or more workers and those in high-hazard industries with 20 or more […]

Janus Amicus: Ben Sachs

Jan 22, 2018 Maddy Joseph

An amicus filed on Friday in Janus and based on Ben’s new article Agency Fees and the First Amendment, 131 Harv. L. Rev. 1046 urges the Court to reject Janus’s challenge on the ground that it does not raise a valid First Amendment claim. The amicus argues that mandatory agency fees should be treated not as compelled employee […]

Estlund on Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government

Jan 19, 2018 Benjamin Sachs

Cindy Estlund (NYU Law Professor and OnLabor contributor) has a terrific new piece in the Harvard Law Review. In Rethinking Autocracy at Work, Estlund reviews Elizabeth Anderson’s Tanner Lectures (published as Private Government) which “aim to bring the problem of workplace governance back into the exalted domain of political theory and political discourse, where it resided a century ago.” Anderson’s […]

January 19, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb may be seeking to reorganize the NLRB’s field offices, Bloomberg reported yesterday. His proposal involves consolidating regional offices and placing at the top of each an official who would report directly to him. This could strengthen central control over regional offices and reduce the number of officials who have the authority to […]

Law and Organizing

Jan 18, 2018 Benjamin Sachs

I have a new essay in the Texas Law Review that aims to help explain how a legal regime like labor law can (if actually enforced) facilitate organizing and collective action. The essay – Law, Organizing, and Status Quo Vulnerability – draws on social movement theory that will be familiar to many readers, and it benefits from the work of OnLabor contributors […]

January 18, 2018
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

This Splinternews article highlights Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL), a worker center in Minneapolis that trains workers to become organizers and leaders in their own community. The article highlights Alexis Collins, who was a 17-year-old Burger King employee when she joined the fight for $15. After the initial success of securing paid sick […]

January 4, 2018
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

Administrative Law Judge Anna Hamburg-Gal found that the Chicago Police Department violated stated labor laws by failing to negotiate an expansion of its body camera program with the city’s police union. The Judge found that state labor law requires dialogue with the union on “safety and discipline matters.” If this ruling is adopted by the […]

December 27, 2017
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

The Atlantic reports that the #metoo movement has yet to deliver justice for low-wage workers who are victims of sexual harassment. The piece explains that sexual harassment is rampant in low-wage industries–50% of workers in the restaurant industry reported facing “scary” or “unwanted” sexual advances in a 2014 report–the difficulty in proving claims and risk […]

December 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford Motor Company, apologized to Ford employees last week following accusations of sexual harassment in two Chicago plants to which the plants responded inadequately. Hackett published an open letter expressing a zero tolerance policy for workplace harassment. The letter was published in response to a New York Times profile of rampant misconduct […]

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