Benjamin Sachs

Vans marked with Amazon’s arrow logo have become ubiquitous on residential streets, a symbol of the nearly instantaneous delivery that has transformed online shopping. But…

Lilith and Velveeta used to love dancing at the Star Garden topless bar in Los Angeles. A large stage and free rein to pick their…

Earlier this year Senate Democrats penned a letter attacking Amazon over its labor practices, calling the retail giant’s subcontracted delivery network a big scheme to…

Six Republican governors in the Deep South want their constituents to know that they’re looking out for them. That’s why they issued a joint statement…

An article by Benjamin Sachs: Following the UAW’s election victory at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, TN and its defeat at Mercedes near Tuscaloosa, AL the union…

Just days before workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama began voting last week on whether to unionize, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed a new…

A United Auto Workers organizing campaign at southern plants including Volkswagen AG, Hyundai Motor Co., and Mercedes-Benz has reinvigorated union resistance from Republican state lawmakers…

Dozens of former Google workers filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday after they were fired or placed on administrative…

An article by Benjamin Sachs: Kate Andrias and I have a new piece out today in Columbia Law Review. The piece attempts to address a…

Two years after clenching a historic victory at a warehouse in New York City, the first labor union for Amazon workers in the United States…

GOP lawmakers in Georgia passed a bill Wednesday to punish employers that make it easier for workers to form unions, sending the legislation to Republican…

Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking to cripple the country’s top labor watchdog, the…

An article by Benjamin Sachs: ALEC is promoting a model statute that conditions a corporation’s eligibility for any state “economic development incentives” on the corporation’s…

Outside the shiny Cambridge offices of the social-media behemoth Meta, in the heart of high-tech Kendall Square, an old-fashioned worker dispute is brewing. When Meta’s…

An article by Kate Andrias, Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs: In 2023, workers are organizing, striking, bargaining and, most surprisingly, winning, like at no time…

Thousands of Starbucks union members walked off the job on the coffee retailer’s biggest promotional day of the year. Timing is everything. Starbucks’s “Red Cup…