Today on TAP: Building on workers’ historic victories in auto plants, delivery trucks, hospitals, campuses, and (maybe) Hollywood
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Lawyers, Not Persuaders
The anti-labor law firm Littler Mendelson’s reputation is a premier example of the limitations in existing labor law.
Posted inTAP
Can the UAW Strike Help It Expand to Non-Union Plants?
Today on TAP: Probably not directly, but a good contract is a good selling point to workers at those factories.
Posted inTAP
How to Reform Labor Law Without Exactly Reforming Labor Law
Today on TAP: Federal agencies and Democratic states are enhancing worker rights despite congressional inaction.
Posted inWorking in America
NLRB Complaint Calls a Noncompete Agreement an Unfair Labor Practice
The complaint against an Ohio spa follows General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s memo seeking these kinds of cases.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Maine Tries to Take Back Its Utilities
A ballot measure would convert two investor-owned power companies into a public nonprofit. Unionized utility workers aren’t sold.
Posted inTAP
Voters, Shmoters
Today on TAP: Wisconsin Republicans are poised to impeach a state Supreme Court justice whom the voters just recently overwhelmingly elected.
Posted inWorking in America
Artificial Intelligence Emerges as a Union-Buster
How one employer used AI against workers even when the technology fell short
Posted inWorking in America
A Labor Day Like No Other
With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns.
Posted inWorking in America
Biden’s NLRB Brings Workers’ Rights Back From the Dead
A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.