Tag: labor law

Labor Law and the Democratic Primary

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 7, 2019

There’s quite a disconnect in how we are talking about work as the left has revitalized itself over the past decade. There is a nearly unprecedented conversation about big issues of inequality and the need to address these problems. That’s led to serious proposals about single-payer health care, the Fight for $15 and higher minimum […]

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Good Ideas That Will Go Nowhere

By Erik Loomis

On February 8, 2018

International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 has been pursuing a sophisticated legal strategy that forces conservatives to defend their blatant anti-union legislation and court decisions. When

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How the Courts Have Devastated Organized Labor

By Erik Loomis

On September 2, 2017

As I have said repeatedly, for all that so-called union reformers want to blame unions for their own problems today, it just doesn’t fit the evidence. Even if many union leaders were (or are) la

The New Labor Regulations Make Republicans Cry

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 26, 2016

Republicans continue to freak out over the Obama administration’s continuing advancements in giving American workers a fair shake. They are going to do whatever they can to repeal those regulations, even though these strategies won’t work. Buried on page 523 of the Senate’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 is a provision […]

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Cursing and Labor Law

By Erik Loomis

On January 31, 2016

Does labor law protect cussing at your bosses? It depends. And that’s the subject of this story about how Murray Energy, a horrible coal mining company, has fired a couple of workers for swearin

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WAGE Act

By Erik Loomis

On September 17, 2015

The United States has not passed comprehensive labor law reform that was pro-worker since 1938. 77 years is a long time. Democrats are now proposing a law to change that. The Workplace Action for a Gr

What Should Labor Law Do?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 5, 2015

Today is the 80th anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act. Of course, the NLRA is hardly working for workers these days, with regulatory capture and unfriendly court decisions creating a regime that keeps all the restrictions on workers and eliminates all the benefits. The extent to which labor should hope to keep using the […]