Jon Weinberg is a student at Harvard Law School.
Professor Sachs will be participating in a panel at today’s White House Summit on Worker Voice. The Summit will be streamed live starting at 10:30AM ET at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live. Professor Sachs previewed his panel on how the law might change to better facilitate worker voice in a post yesterday. The full schedule is as follows:
· 10:30AM ET: Welcome & Opening Plenary Panel
· 12:00PM ET: President Obama remarks
· 12:45PM ET: “Exploring Promising New Models of Worker Voice”
· 2:15PM ET: “Millennials Finding Their Voice”
· 4:40PM ET: Town Hall with the President on the Future of Worker Voice
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August 31
Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians stave off first-ever strike; Cleveland Public Library workers ratify new contracts; New York State AFL-CIO makes endorsements
August 30
Seattle teachers vote to authorize a strike days before the school year begins; BNSF Railway’s AI dispatching system puts workers in danger; and a California court finds that the DOL’s pay cuts for non-citizen farmworkers are unlawful.
August 28
Calls for a “token tax” on AI consumption grow and the number of Amazon workers on federal aid explodes.
August 27
NLRB GC targets Biden-era precedent; Starbucks Workers United calls for boycott; Encore Boston Harbor workers authorize strike
August 26
Trump administration proposes $103,000 H-1B visa fee after court blocks earlier attempt; Illinois governor signs law enabling state investment in AFL-CIO housing trust; Deloitte pays $21.5 million to settle DOJ probe alleging DEI-related discrimination in federal contracts.
August 25
Hyundai workers reach a tentative agreement; Federal-sector unions sue the Trump Administration over OPM rule changes; Federal judge dismisses a teachers’ union free speech suit.