Benjamin Sachs is the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School and a leading expert in the field of labor law and labor relations. He is also faculty director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy. Professor Sachs teaches courses in labor law, employment law, and law and social change, and his writing focuses on union organizing and unions in American politics. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2008, Professor Sachs was the Joseph Goldstein Fellow at Yale Law School. From 2002-2006, he served as Assistant General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Washington, D.C. Professor Sachs graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, and served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His writing has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the New York Times and elsewhere. Professor Sachs received the Yale Law School teaching award in 2007 and in 2013 received the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence at Harvard Law School. He can be reached at [email protected].
Sharon and I have a piece up at WaPo today making the case that California should follow AB5 with a new law that gives gig workers the right to form unions and collectively bargain with their employers.
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November 4
Disney defends employment discrimination; UC student workers vote 99% for strike; Starbucks violates labor law (again).
November 3
Swedish unions take on Tesla, Starbucks and the NLRB litigate make-whole remedies, and workers at Waffle House organize for better better pay and conditions.
October 31
Unions make a final push in election campaigning and Lyft settles with FTC over misleading driver earnings claims.
October 30
Google's union announces unfair labor practice charge; NLRB shows growth in student unions; USW counting on clean energy
October 29
Volkswagen reveals plans to shut down German factories; Fifth Circuit allows pilots union’s lawsuit against Southwest to proceed; and USA Today features the role of union workers in the election.
October 28
5th Circuit overturned a ruling ordering Elon Musk to delete a tweet threatening workers stock options if they unionized; transportation workers vote to authorize a strike of SEPTA