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May 6, 2020

Jon Levitan

Jon Levitan is a student at Harvard Law School and a member of the Labor and Employment Lab.

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February 3

New Jersey advances a temp worker rights bill; Johns Hopkins doctoral students join a wave of unionized graduate students; canvassers systematically misrepresented a petition for a veto referendum on the California fast food workers bill; and strikes continue in the UK

February 2

Starbucks made illegal threats during a union election; an Illinois bill would paid time off; and the UK cost of living strike continues.

February 1

Judge rules Amazon violated labor law and HuffPost workers announce readiness to strike.

January 31

Apple faces ULP charge; public school teachers strike in Massachusetts; UAW runoff voting begins; a Jacobin article discusses a new app that could facilitate union organizing

January 30

[email protected] — Illinois’s highest court considers whether federal collective bargaining law preempts BIPA; the EEOC publishes a new plan to enforce nondiscrimination laws against AI hiring technology; and working professionals discover the wonders — and dangers — of ChatGPT.

January 29

Republican states challenge DOL's ESG rule, Ninth Circuit agrees to hear lawsuit challenging private prison labor

OnLabor In The News

The New Republic

Starbucks Workers Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain.: Prof. Block on how employers' refusal to bargain harms the labor movement

Talking Points Memo

Chipotle Borrows From Starbucks’ Playbook As Workers Push To Unionize: Prof. Sachs on how though "policies in Washington have made it very difficult for workers to organize; at the moment, workers are defying those fierce headwinds."

SHRM

A Beneficial Union: Prof. Sachs on how employers can benefit from unions, explaining how unions "open up a new line of communication between management and workers" and how voluntary recognition "can be faster and less acrimonious" than using the NLRB process

Bloomberg

Apple to Withhold Latest Employee Perks From Unionized Store: Prof. Sachs explains why employers like Apple and Starbucks are wrong when they say they can't offer union workers the same perks that they're extending to nonunion employees.

The American Prospect

Laws That Create Countervailing Power: A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Sachs, Kate Andrias, Steve Kest, and Robert Kuttner.

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