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Brishen Rogers

@brishen.bsky.social

Prof at Georgetown Law. Labor law, political economy, technology, other things. I no longer have a twitter account. Author, Data & Democracy at Work, The MIT Press. Open Access version at https://tinyurl.com/btv74buj

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Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 5d ago

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
Ntina Tzouvala@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just one day left to submit your abstracts for this year's meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies: lpeproject.org/events/cfp-m... This year we focus on the role of law in right- and left-leaning world building visions and experiments.

CFP – Making and Breaking Worlds: Old and New Struggles in Law and Political Economy

Neoliberalism – understood both as a political philosophy and as an actually-existing model of governing capitalism – appears to be in terminal decline. The renewed acceptability of industrial policy…

lpeproject.org

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · last mo.

Recipe for building political power: Continuous, relationship based,& fun infused organizing not episodic high stakes transactional mobilization. It’s actually just good for democracy regardless of ideology but DSA is the only non right wing, party-like apparatus doing it. Kudos to DSA, honestly.

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · last mo.

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

Gabriel Winant@gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Once again beating the drum for recruits to test out (virtually) my ultra-elaborate simulation, Durban mass strikes of 1973. Just worked out the rules by which the Zulu chief figure can bring scabs on the train from the homeland, and the strikers can meet them with bread or fists

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My idea would be that the next time people want to support a working class candidate for public office, we look for someone like a nurse or a public school teacher or a home health aide or a nice HR lady. And ideally someone with a track record of commitment to organized left politics.

Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Bill Kuchman@billkuchman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Sameer Ashar@sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“capitalism inexorably kills and injures working class people, and it adds to those injuries the insults of rationalizing, victim blaming, and forgetting“ @nhold.bsky.social toward moral clarity

Nate Holdren@nhold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LaborOnline kindly ran a short essay of mine where I talk a bit about the personal backstory of my recent journal article in Labor and explore some of the larger themes. I'd appreciate if you'd check it out! lawcha.org/2026/06/13/t...

Jeanne Fromer@jeannefromer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

State Supreme Courts Can Resolve Early Legal Recruiting Mess

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I will never understand why the sensible moderate position on Social Security is usually (a) preserve/increase benefits for the worst-off seniors (correct) (b) raise the retirement age for everyone (a type of cut targeted at the same group, b/c they have the shortest life expectancy)

There is still time to do this right. The first step is looking at whom the system is failing. We spend roughly $1.5 trillion a year on Social Security and still leave millions of seniors in poverty, despite the fact that, by my calculations, about 3 percent of the program’s budget, properly applied, could lift all older adults out of poverty. Any plan that protects benefits across the board while leaving the poorest seniors where they are has its priorities backward. The rest of the options are well known: Index the retirement age so that as people live longer they have to wait longer for full benefits; further tweak the benefits formula to reduce payments to higher-income beneficiaries; or expand taxes by either raising the payroll tax rate or broadening the base to cover all forms of compensation, at all levels.
Amy Kapczynski@akapczynski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The partisan attack on higher ed is undermining learning and research on campus all around the country - and, now we know, at Yale too. Read our report, based on a survey of 177 faculty members at Yale.

Yale AAUP@aaupyale.org · 3mo ago

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

Brishen Rogers@brishen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Platner's definition of the working class as anyone who earns income from work rather than investments is increasingly common on the left. It's appealing but it is clearly wrong. Culturally, economically, and legally there are major differences between wage-earners and the middle classes. 1/3

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