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On Labor is a blog by Harvard Law Professors Benjamin Sachs and Jack Goldsmith devoted to workers, unions, and their politics.
We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government – all three branches – in each of these issues.
02/20/2020
For all the sparks at the Democratic Debate, candidates from Bernie Sanders to Mike Bloomberg agree on one monumental labor policy proposal: sectoral bargaining.
Profs. Sharon Block and Ben Sachs detail the emerging Democratic consensus and what a sectoral bargaining would actually entail.
08/26/2019
20,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast are on strike after the company allegedly committed unfair labor practices in bargaining (or not bargaining) a new contract.
https://onlabor.org/todays-news-commentary-august-26-2019/
05/14/2019
Facebook is raising wages for contractors, states are suing the Trump administration to block an anti-union rule, and Macy's workers authorized a strike. Read today's news from Bibeka Shrestha:
https://onlabor.org/todays-news-and-commentary-may-14-2019/
05/13/2019
The Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents are currently engaged in a dispute over conflicts of interest that has the potential to completely change how the entertainment industry operates. Amy Maurer has what you need to know:
https://onlabor.org/writers-v-agents-a-fight-that-could-change-hollywood/
05/12/2019
"Volkswagen has tried to kill its employees’ union organizing drive in a remarkably brazen fashion—and all too predictably, the Trump Labor Board has acted as its accomplice."
https://onlabor.org/trump-nlrb-enables-volkswagens-chutzpah/
05/09/2019
Wonolo, short for “Work Now Locally,” is essentially a next-generation, blue-collar temp staffing agency that specializes in warehouse work (but also advertises to companies seeking temporary labor for delivery work, event staffing, janitorial services; etc.). It was “incubated” by Coca-Cola, whose retail outlets often needed spot labor to set up displays in supermarkets and convenience stores.
https://onlabor.org/the-digitalization-of-day-labor-as-gig-work/
05/06/2019
The taxicab exemption allows employers “engage[d] in the business of operating taxicabs” to be exempt from the overtime pay requirement. Thus, whether Uber falls within the exemption turns on whether rideshare companies are in the “business of operating taxicabs.”
https://onlabor.org/uber-overtime-and-the-taxicab-exemption/
05/01/2019
"Riot Games is the developer of League of Legends and runs the League of Legends Championship Series, the professional esports league with ten teams from North America competing. In 2017, Riot Games took a page from conventional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA, announcing its plans to start a players’ association called the North American League of Legends Championship Series Players Association. Its goal is to represent players’ interests at the negotiation table. Because of the structure of esports, there are three parties at play. Riot Games is the publisher and operator of the league, then the team, and finally the players.
Riot Games’ funding of its own union poses an obvious legal question: Are esports players employees of Riot Games, making it a violation for Riot Games to fund their own labor union under the NLRA?"
https://onlabor.org/is-riot-games-in-violation-of-the-nlra-for-funding-its-own-union/
Is Riot Games in Violation of the NLRA for Funding its Own Union?
04/23/2019
"[I]t’s hard to see this going well,” writes Jay Michaelson at The Daily Beast. “I am not optimistic,” says Georgetown Law professor Sheila Foster. “Not great news,” contends Columbia Law professor Katherine Franke. “Yikes,” tweets Mark Joseph Stern at Slate. Read Jared Odessky's roundup of the coverage.
Commentary Roundup for Bostock, Zarda and Harris Cert Grants Yesterday the Supreme Court granted cert in three cases that will decide whether Title VII’s bar against discrimination because of s*x extends to discrimination because of s*xual orientation and ge…
04/22/2019
The Supreme Court just granted cert. in three cases asking whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on workplace discrimination based on s*x also prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ workers. Many federal appeals courts have held that Title VII protects LGBTQ workers — but with Justice Kennedy off the Court and Justice Kavanaugh on, the future of those rights is unclear.
https://onlabor.org/scotus-weighing-lgbtq-workers-right-whats-at-risk/
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