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Benjamin Sachs
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Anti-Union Governors and Employee Free Choice
June 14, 2024
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…
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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…
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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…
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Former Google workers fired for protesting Israel deal file complaint claiming protected speech
May 3, 2024
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…
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The Chicken-and-Egg of Law and Organizing
April 19, 2024
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…
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Two years after its historic win, a divided Amazon Labor Union lurches toward a leadership election
April 8, 2024
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…
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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…
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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…
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Hey ALEC, Be Careful What You Wish For
March 11, 2024
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…
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FTC Chair Lina Khan is determined to preserve “competition and the potential for disruption” in the fast-moving AI industry.
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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…
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A new path for unionizing Uber and Lyft
December 4, 2023
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…
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‘Red Cup Rebellion’: The worker strike on Starbucks’s most iconic day
November 27, 2023
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…
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Detroit Today: Exploring the labor movement’s recent successes
October 5, 2023
The labor movement is having a big moment in the U.S., with multiple efforts underway by union leaders across various industries to negotiate better contracts…
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UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.”
September 22, 2023
After invoking the legacy of Ronald Reagan to suggest that striking United Auto Workers members should be fired for demanding higher wages, Sen. Tim Scott,…
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NLRB Decisions Curb Employers’ Ability to Make Unilateral Changes
September 6, 2023
Two new rulings from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) prohibit employers from modifying employment terms, such as pay, schedules and benefits, during a gap…
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Will Starbucks’ union-busting stifle a union rebirth in the US?
September 5, 2023
With more than 340 victories at Starbucks stores across the US, the campaign to organize the coffee chain’s workers is one of the most successful…
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Harvard Law’s Benjamin I. Sachs says the labor movement’s successes this year may be the ‘start of a virtuous cycle of union wins’.