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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’.
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Harvard Law labor expert Sharon Block on the Hollywood writers strike, AI, and what comes next
July 11, 2023
Labor expert Sharon Block says the Writers Guild of America’s weekslong strike could heat up in the fall when production companies run out of stockpiled scripts
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Supreme Court ruling could chill labor strikes
June 2, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered the latest in a series of rulings undercutting organized labor, with some legal experts predicting that the decision will…
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Curtailing Starbucks’s War on Its Unionized Baristas
May 22, 2023
Even a quick review of the huge number of complaints—93 of them—that the National Labor Relations Board has filed against Starbucks makes clear that the…
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Amazon delivery drivers unionized and negotiated their first contract with the Teamsters union last week — a huge feat for workers at a company that…
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Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal held a role-play session for managers about how to defeat union drives, a task the training materials for the exercise said was…
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Howard Schultz Takes the Hot Seat
March 28, 2023
When Starbucks founder Howard Schultz appears before U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday, he can expect a…
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Starbucks Corp. and other companies are on notice that, with a sweeping ruling from a judge last week, the National Labor Relations Board is signaling…
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‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing
February 27, 2023
US corporations have mounted a fierce counterattack against the union drives at Starbucks, Amazon and other companies, and in response, federal officials are working overtime…