An upcoming case might nullify a California statute that allows employees to enforce violations of labor law, and possibly federal whistleblower cases too.
Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman is a writer and professor who teaches criminal justice and sociology at the City University of New York.
Posted inHousing
Want Affordable Housing? Strengthen Regional Governments.
Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, and it takes a metropolitan regional government to coordinate the growth in housing, transit, and employment that makes the region livable.
Posted inWorking in America
How Workers Really Get Canceled on the Job
Pre-hiring personality screening and ongoing employer monitoring explicitly weed out workers likely to agitate for a union.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Progressive Policing Requires a Well-Funded War on Corporate Crime
Under Reagan, the feds paid cities to make drug busts. Under Biden, the feds should pay cities to crack down on wage theft.
Posted inFeatures
Storming the Gates
As the Microsoft Corporation anxiously awaits the verdict of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, whose decision may determine its fate (Will certain practices be prohibited? Will the company be broken apart?), the software giant could be forgiven for feeling that the greatest threat to its dominance of the computing industry is the U.S. Department of Justice. […]
