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October 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court. You can read OnLabor’s discussion of her history on workers’ issues on the Seventh Circuit here. You can read OnLabor’s discussion of her textualism as it relates to her Kleber decision here. Bloomberg Law has received more information on the whistleblower complaint regarding the […]

June 29, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

This past Wednesday, a group of about 50 Uber drivers staged a protest outside Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s house. According to Forbes, the protesters blasted labor-friendly music and held up a banner reading, “A Thief Lives Here” in front of the $17 million mansion. The Uber drivers were protesting the company’s efforts to avoid complying […]

June 1, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

As schools begin to adjourn for the summer, millions of people may lose eligibility for paid family leave programs created in response to the pandemic, Bloomberg reports. Under federal programs like the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), 61 million parents whose children’s schools closed due to the pandemic were eligible for 10 weeks of […]

December 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Construction unions, including North America’s Building Trades Unions and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, are concerned that the Trump administration may apply its apprenticeship plan to the construction industry. President Trump wants to ease the shortage of skilled workers by allowing employers to set standards for apprenticeships. Construction was originally excluded from this plan because […]

August 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

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. The Communications Workers of America, the union representing the workers, says that the negotiating team appointed by the company did “not have real authority to make proposals or to reach an […]

How the Anthem Backlash Violates Employment Discrimination Law

Oct 13, 2017 Noah Zatz

With Vice President Pence staging a counterprotest and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones issuing ultimatums to his team, it is worth reiterating that disciplining NFL players for taking a knee likely is illegal. Let us count the ways. Unlike a constitutional First Amendment analysis that must focus on government action (by, say, the President) to […]

Guest Post: The People’s Climate March and Labor

May 2, 2017 reneegerni

Renee Gerni is an Assistant General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union. The views expressed in this post are solely her own and should not be attributed to SEIU. This past weekend, when hundreds of thousands rallied in the People’s Climate March, a significant number of the marchers were union members. In fact, the labor […]

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