In New York, the business lobby resorts to apocalyptic ads to stop a ban on noncompete provisions.
Terri Gerstein
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Center for Labor and a Just Economy and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute.
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America’s Workplace Safety Crisis
Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.
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New Process Gives Undocumented Workers Legal Status to Report Employer Abuse
Should scofflaw employers be allowed to weaponize immigration enforcement? The Department of Homeland Security says no.
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The Real Victims of Cancel Culture Are America’s Workers
Employees are all too readily fired just for speaking out about conditions at work.
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In Massachusetts, a Limit on Gig Companies’ Deceptions
The state Supreme Court throws a Proposition 22–like initiative off November’s ballot.
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What Amazon and Starbucks Don’t Let Us Know
There are gaping holes in what the law requires employers to reveal about their campaigns to keep their workers from unionizing.
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Is Washington State About to Deprive Its Gig Drivers of Basic Rights?
A bill quietly sailing through the legislature could do just that.
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Will Starbucks Bargain With Its Baristas, or Just Pretend To?
Many newly unionized employers go discreetly AWOL (or worse) when it comes to negotiating a first contract. Coffee drinkers shouldn’t let Starbucks get away with that.
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Starbucks: Purveyor of Fresh Coffee and Stale Union-Busting
Management’s old-school battle against its Buffalo baristas’ organizing campaign reveals a failure to recognize how unionization can align the company with its consumers.
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State Attorneys General Are Helping Workers in Hard Times
Trump’s administration is AWOL in the fight for worker safety, but a growing number of state attorneys general are focusing on worker rights and protections.