OnLabor

A blog covering workers, unions, and their politics.

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Hundreds of tenants have launched the largest rent strike in decades.

They're demanding a 3% national rent cap, collective rent bargaining, and more.

These Kansas City tenants aren't just targeting their landlords, they're aiming at how the government treats renters.

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The Truth About the Parties and Labor https://t.co/TZPKPEw5ht

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In today’s news, General Counsel Abruzzo takes aim at noncompetes; Boeing and union resume West Coast talks amid South Carolina organizing; and Stellantis sues to prevent a UAW strike in California. https://t.co/UfA4H7yGw9 via @OnLaborBlog

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Tracking Attacks on the NLRB: Fifth Circuit Continues to Stand Alone https://t.co/8hsnyH5Egj via @OnLaborBlog

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Here’s How Loper Bright is Stripping Away Workers’ Rights https://t.co/XwIh4AWgCB via @OnLaborBlog

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Watchful AI: Artificial Intelligence and Job Quality in the Fissured Workplace https://t.co/0gt88uHxE4 via @OnLaborBlog

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A federal judge in Texas has endorsed SpaceX’s constitutional challenge to the NLRB. We’re tracking attacks on the labor board https://t.co/8e3GIGauvS via @OnLaborBlog

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"The Supreme Court has left too much slack in the system to ignore. Our best hope is for states to pick it up." @sharblock and @rdnayak on what states can do to protect workers post-Chevron
https://t.co/yPrQZL02hl

[Dave Jamieson @jamieson]

It's not just opposition to the PRO Act. As @bsachs noted, if Vance likes sectoral bargaining, why did he vote to kill the NLRB's joint employer rule, which could expand union footprints within sectors?

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How California can take the sting out of Cedar Point and protect union access rights for farm workers https://t.co/JlIMbYdnSZ via @OnLaborBlog

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Now that SCOTUS has limited what federal agencies can do for workers’ rights, states need to pick up the slack https://t.co/yPrQZL02hl via @OnLaborBlog

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And second: Darin Dalmat on the two roads to NLRB deference that remain open
https://t.co/RIh7Tw4pCN

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"Chevron is dead. What does that mean for labor law?" Two reflections on Loper Bright this morning. First, @tascha_sp discusses what Loper means for the NLRA: https://t.co/INpSiQLYBR

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Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become | Steven Greenhouse https://t.co/H2h2DkfR1j

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"Legislative redistricting and bargaining-unit determinations both involve defining an electorate. But beyond that, the gerrymander analogy breaks down on closer inspection." Joel Heller on where analogies bw labor and democracy are useful -- versus not.
https://t.co/ScgbUlif9Q

[Noah Zatz @NoahZatz]

And another thing! The U. of California’s TRO flouts CA’s Little Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act. On either UAW’s (ULP strike) or UC’s (political strike) view, the narrow "Boys Markets" exception wouldn’t apply, even if CA follows the feds. Details 👇 https://t.co/TwQPJZLr3K

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Back with part two of yesterday's post: Senior Contributor @NoahZatz on the second major flaw of the court order enjoining UC grad students' ULP strike. https://t.co/V0wjxWaF6c

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Senior Contributor @NoahZatz on the recent state court order enjoining the UC grad students' strike.
https://t.co/J4TKpozcNI

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Now in @OnLaborBlog, how the U. of Caliornia's TRO against the UAW strike is serious & destructive judicial overreach. This piece focuses on the end run around the CA labor board's "exclusive jurisdiction" over unfair labor practice (ULP) determinations. https://t.co/6bEUDTh2xD