David Weil

Professor @TheHellerSchool and Visiting Faculty Fellow @HarvardAsh. Always fighting for a fair day's pay for a fair day's work!

[David Weil @profsheena]

@dannyjschneider and I are hiring a full-time post-doc to work with us on strategic enforcement research. Folks interested in computational methods, labor policy, industrial relations, labor economics, etc.. please apply! Apps due 1/8; Fall 2024 start. https://t.co/SFU9lkq1qn

[David Weil @profsheena]

It's time to cut through noise and start getting some basic facts about gig work out there. Here's a start folks: https://t.co/xqZrczWHyB

[David Weil @profsheena]

As @michaelsjoel notes, even good laws don't implement themselves: Inflation Reduction Act incentives for quality and green jobs require that recipients follow through and requires resources and effective engagement to work. Read more here! https://t.co/Q3PI9G4aOr @TheProspect

[David Weil @profsheena]

Fissuring explained: The companies using PSSI are some of the biggest meatpackers in the US (JBS USA; Turkey Valley Farms) who profess no tolerance for child labor. Yet children under 16 were cleaning up their killing floors. @jbarab @DebbieBerkowitz

[David Weil @profsheena]

Outrageous child labor violations found by @WHD_DOL at PSSI: "Initial evidence indicates the company may also employ more kids under similar conditions at 400 other sites across the country." This is #fissuring at its worst. https://t.co/Fad9A6Wbbe via @nbcnews

[David Weil @profsheena]

@noamscheiber Exactly. And I'm sure JBS who hired Packers-and one of the largest meatpackers in the world-will say they were shocked that their contractor hired 13 year-old children to clean their killing floors. Implausible deniability.

[David Weil @profsheena]

“Federal laws were established decades ago to prevent employers from profiting by putting children in harm’s way,” Michael Lazzeri, the regional administrator in the Labor Department’s @WHD_DOL

[David Weil @profsheena]

Child labor in a US meatpacking facility in 2022: Anyone who believes that we don't need vigorous, well resourced and robust enforcement to protect workers should read this. @WHD_DOL https://t.co/RbHaDYoazp

[David Weil @profsheena]

The contractor, Packers Sanitation Services, had children, some as young as 13 "...cleaning kill floors, meat- and bone-cutting saws, grinding machines and electric knives."

[David Weil @profsheena]

Folks: This is a stunning report that indicates how technology (doorbell cameras) are used as a means of monitoring and supervision. Result is #fissuring on steroids: control + gigified work. A must read. @datasociety

[Data & Society @datasociety]

New report! 📣 "At the Digital Doorstep," by D&S Labor Futures program director @aihanguyen & research analyst @zel_eve, explores how surveillance designed to protect private property is used to manage the workforce outside of it. 🧵 1/10 https://t.co/bYjf384V2g

[David Weil @profsheena]

This piece by @LaurenKGurley provides reasons for realistic optimism that the wave of organizing can continue even with gathering clouds over the labor market. https://t.co/JS8QnEidEY @washingtonpost @amazonlabor @SBWorkersUnited @NELPaction @EconomicPolicy

[David Weil @profsheena]

@andy_garin Ouch.

[David Weil @profsheena]

Folks: A fair and equitable society requires accommodations as a core part of disability policy (remember the #ADA?). John Fetterman's use of captioning is an example of that. https://t.co/TiHZdyUbnh @LurieInstitute @TheHellerSchool

[David Weil @profsheena]

Proposed @USDOL rule on who is an employee brings that definition back to where it should be: based on #FLSA law and how the @WHD_DOL and courts have been interpreting it for decades. Workers deserve the broad protections of our basic labor standards. https://t.co/ipBg1Xx3Y1

[David Weil @profsheena]

@LarryMishel @tanyalea16 @INETeconomics @EconomicPolicy Thank you @LarryMishel. Very kind. @tanyalea16

[David Weil @profsheena]

Very proud to say that Starbucks workers voted to unionize (20-1!) at my hometown of Greeley, Colorado! https://t.co/L5CrAzF6jR @GreeleyTribune @SBWorkersUnited

[David Weil @profsheena]

NJ Labor Commissioner @NJDOLCommish continues to break new ground in leading his agency and protecting workers. https://t.co/eDwoqA9fDQ

[David Weil @profsheena]

An inspired and effective organizing and bargaining approach by @unitehere to respond to #fissuredworkplace outsourcing. It's yielded better wages and conditions for 4000 cafeteria workers. https://t.co/nDERh0XFgG

[David Weil @profsheena]

Massachusetts needs a strong Attorney General to fight for working people. I am proud to endorse Shannon Liss-Riordan who has a career of fighting and winning on their behalf. I urge you to cast your ballot for her by September 6th! https://t.co/z1RvCN1xf9 @ShannonForAG

[David Weil @profsheena]

Sometimes humor is more effective at conveying an idea than dry economic reasoning...Thanks @The_TUC for this history lesson.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Raise the minimum wage.

#FightFor15