November 6 Transport Workers Union denounces Amtrak’s new policy permitting passengers to carry guns onboard; Texas Democrat wins offer hope for labor in the state.
November 5 ALJ finds cannabis workers fired for union activity; NY warehouse workers’ overtime claims advance; MLB and MLBPA continue clash over proposed salary cap.
November 4 Ninth Circuit revives cannabis retailer’s labor-law challenge and blocks California captive-audience law; NLRB names new solicitor.
November 3 Trump administration prepares to roll back PWFA regulations; AI whistleblower wins in federal court; voter enthusiasm among union members soars
November 2 DOL's domestic worker wage rules partially invalidated; Trump Administration restrained from threatening to prosecute election officials; USCIS forced to reinstate minimum notice period for unaccompanied children's asylum interviews.
Wired Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights Prof. Sachs on challenges to union organizing under the second Trump Administration.
Los Angeles Times Column: How anti-union southern governors may be violating federal law Ben Sachs quoted in a column about the anti-union governors' letter and the fragmentation of labor law; John Fry's post referenced on the question of whether state level card-check bans are preempted by the NLRA.
Fast Company Amazon’s Labor Union is divided but closing in on electing leadership Prof. Sachs on Amazon's use of legal roadblocks to delay negotiations.
Semafor Unions’ picket power now extends to U.S. boardrooms Prof. Block on the influence of labor unions on other playing fields.
Bloomberg Law Boeing Talks Will Test Unions’ Sway as Labor Market Softens Prof. Block on Boeing's labor negotiations with the International Association of Machinists.
College Basketball Eligibility Roddy Gayle, Jr. is a twenty-three year old basketball player who has spent the last four academic years playing at Ohio State and Michigan, making seven figures along the way and winning a national championship during his senior year. After his last season finished, Gayle was not drafted by an NBA team, tried to earn […]
We Should Be Worried About a Google-Spirit Deal When Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. collapsed this spring, 17,000 flight attendants, pilots, and workers lost their jobs. The decades of emails, Teams chats, grievances, and safety reports left behind are now up for sale. Google has agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit’s internal records, saying it wants to use the data to improve its […]
New Tools for Combatting Forced Labor Our colleague Aaron Halegua recently authored a two-part series on using legal advocacy tools in the US to combat forced labor outside the US. In this post, we explore the reverse angle: using legal advocacy tools outside the US to combat forced labor inside the U.S. We hope to illustrate that forced labor is a […]
New Labor Initiatives Under Evolving Policy Considerations In a conversation with The Regulatory Review, Kate Andrias discusses novel state worker-protection initiatives, federal preemption of state labor law, constitutional challenges to federal labor law, and obstacles to labor organizing. You can find the original interview here. The Regulatory Review: What are worker standards boards, what purpose do they serve, and what distinguishes them from […]
The Successor Bar: A Test for Board Policymaking After Loper Bright Two years after Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturned Chevron, its impact on labor law is beginning to take shape, most recently in Hospital Menonita De Guayama v. NLRB. As previous writers on the blog have detailed, Loper Bright has not had the immediate impact on labor law that some predicted. Hospital Menonita may be […]
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November 6
Transport Workers Union denounces Amtrak’s new policy permitting passengers to carry guns onboard; Texas Democrat wins offer hope for labor in the state.
November 5
ALJ finds cannabis workers fired for union activity; NY warehouse workers’ overtime claims advance; MLB and MLBPA continue clash over proposed salary cap.
November 4
Ninth Circuit revives cannabis retailer’s labor-law challenge and blocks California captive-audience law; NLRB names new solicitor.
November 3
Trump administration prepares to roll back PWFA regulations; AI whistleblower wins in federal court; voter enthusiasm among union members soars
November 2
DOL's domestic worker wage rules partially invalidated; Trump Administration restrained from threatening to prosecute election officials; USCIS forced to reinstate minimum notice period for unaccompanied children's asylum interviews.
November 1
Dockworkers strike to protest arms shipments; Weil closes its doors.