Well before the 2016 presidential election, worker movements like “Fight for Fifteen” had begun to rack up wins in left-leaning states and cities on issues including the minimum wage and paid sick time. Then the election made necessity out of virtue, with states and cities adopting a key role in resisting policies of the Trump administration. Now, with the Trump National Labor Relations Board and Department of Labor starting to roll back pro-worker gains made during the Obama Administration, this emerging progressive federalism has only become more important for improving working conditions and expanding opportunities for workers’ collective action. This essay focuses on one innovative workers’ rights measure: a Seattle ordinance allowing t...
The “sharing economy” goes by many names such as the “gig economy,” the “1099 economy,” and the “on-...
Labor legislation in the United States and other countries has been rooted in a basic premise that i...
(Excerpt) In the shadow of the 2020 United States Presidential election, an important vote was also ...
Well before the 2016 presidential election, worker movements like “Fight for Fifteen” had begun to r...
This Article analyzes the viability of legislation extending labor rights to workers currently exclu...
There are seismic changes going on in the political system. The United States Supreme Court has cons...
There are seismic changes going on in the political system. The United States Supreme Court has cons...
In September 2019, California legislators approved a bill, known as AB5, that extended employee stat...
Membership in traditional unions has steeply declined over the past two decades. As the White House ...
A well-documented problem motivates this symposium: The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does not...
“Autonomous” workers include most gig-platform drivers, like those working globally for Uber and Lyf...
This Note examines whether the organizational methods successfully employed by the “Fight for 15” fa...
The article examines the case Clark v. City of Seattle which addresses the advantages of regulating ...
Legislation has been introduced in the United States that will allow workers to form unions without ...
(This paper is a working draft, which will be published in final form by the University of Chicago L...
The “sharing economy” goes by many names such as the “gig economy,” the “1099 economy,” and the “on-...
Labor legislation in the United States and other countries has been rooted in a basic premise that i...
(Excerpt) In the shadow of the 2020 United States Presidential election, an important vote was also ...
Well before the 2016 presidential election, worker movements like “Fight for Fifteen” had begun to r...
This Article analyzes the viability of legislation extending labor rights to workers currently exclu...
There are seismic changes going on in the political system. The United States Supreme Court has cons...
There are seismic changes going on in the political system. The United States Supreme Court has cons...
In September 2019, California legislators approved a bill, known as AB5, that extended employee stat...
Membership in traditional unions has steeply declined over the past two decades. As the White House ...
A well-documented problem motivates this symposium: The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does not...
“Autonomous” workers include most gig-platform drivers, like those working globally for Uber and Lyf...
This Note examines whether the organizational methods successfully employed by the “Fight for 15” fa...
The article examines the case Clark v. City of Seattle which addresses the advantages of regulating ...
Legislation has been introduced in the United States that will allow workers to form unions without ...
(This paper is a working draft, which will be published in final form by the University of Chicago L...
The “sharing economy” goes by many names such as the “gig economy,” the “1099 economy,” and the “on-...
Labor legislation in the United States and other countries has been rooted in a basic premise that i...
(Excerpt) In the shadow of the 2020 United States Presidential election, an important vote was also ...