American labor law is broken, and we need new strategies. @cljeharvard.bsky.social has released a Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law, offering a framework and user guide for legislating sectoral bargaining systems for states: clje.law.harvard.edu/model-state-...

Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

Labor law in the United States is broken. The Center for Labor and a Just Economy is proud to release…

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American labor law is broken. Sectoral strategies have long been recognized as powerful tools for raising labor standards. We're proud to release a Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law for states, a framework and user guide for legislators: clje.law.harvard.edu/model-state-...

Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

Labor law in the United States is broken. The Center for Labor and a Just Economy is proud to release…

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Labor law in the United States is broken. We’re proud to release a Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law, which offers lawmakers a framework for legislating groundbreaking sectoral bargaining systems in states. Check it out here: clje.law.harvard.edu/model-state-...

Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

Labor law in the United States is broken. The Center for Labor and a Just Economy is proud to release…

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Our working paper, “Sectoral Models: Expanding Sectoral Standard Setting Under NLRA Preemption” explores a promising strategy to protect and build worker power across industries. Check it out on our site and stay tuned for more: tinyurl.com/yp3r395b

State and Local Labor Policy Working Paper Series - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

State and Local Labor Policy Working Paper Series CLJE and Workshop hosted working groups and a convening in the fall…

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In his latest in @prospect.org, David Weil breaks down why flexibility in gig work has become the lynchpin of a well-traveled myth that corporations have spun to their employees, policymakers, and the public @profsheenalives.bsky.social prospect.org/2026/07/09/d...

The Dangerous Myth of Flexibility - The American Prospect

Uber and Lyft insist it benefits their drivers. In actuality, it benefits Uber and Lyft.

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“The likelihood of increasing the supply of housing is diminished by an aggressive deportation policy, and would be better served by having some sort of path to citizenship, and ending the underground economy." CLJE Fellow Mark Erlich in @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/09/b...

Trump’s immigration crackdown is leaving Mass. construction sites without workers - The Boston Globe

President Trump's policies are stoking fear and putting the industry at risk of a labor shortage amid a severe demand for housing in the state.

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"They're not feeling well...especially if there are underlying conditions, they may die at home, and it isn't always then labeled an occupational fatality." @sharblock.bsky.social talks about the fatal consequences of heat on the job with @wthrcom.bsky.social www.wthr.com/article/news...

Expanding executive power, today's SCOTUS decision allows the president to fire leaders of independent agencies, threatening their function and even their existence. @sharblock.bsky.social and @tanyalea.bsky.social break down today's decision in @ms.now www.ms.now/opinion/supr...

Opinion | The Supreme Court just gutted independent agencies. Congress must fight back

After the conservative majority’s ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, it’s up to the legislative branch to protect the American people.

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Have you ever thought about how AI personality shapes your team's success? Managers should treat AI interaction style as a governable design choice. Read more from CLJE Fellow @przega.bsky.social and CLJE Faculty Co-Director Richard Freeman in @hbr.org hbr.org/2026/06/does...

Does Your AI Have a Personality Problem?

As companies embed AI more deeply into work, performance depends not only on what systems can do but how they behave. Research shows that AI personas—supportive or hostile—shape employee stress, resis...

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When it comes to heat on the job, we need regulations. @sharblock.bsky.social lays out the reasons regulations and heat standards are increasingly crucial and why state legislatures have a big role to play @keranews.org www.keranews.org/news/2026-06...

Former Labor Department official says regulations are needed to protect workers in extreme heat

Extreme heat this summer can be dangerous and even deadly for folks who work outside or those who work indoors without adequate air conditioning.

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In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past. Read more from CLJE Fellow Mark Erlich @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/jewi...

Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine

In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.

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Last month at an interdisciplinary convening on heat protections, @sharblock.bsky.social moderated a panel on protecting low-wage workers who can't avoid working in extreme temperatures. Read her three takeaways @harvardsalata.bsky.social salatainstitute.harvard.edu/mays-heatwav...

May’s heatwaves offer early warning for workers - The Salata Institute

As cities prepare for hotter summers, protecting people on the job will require enforceable rules, local action, and workers’ voices.

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We can prevent as many as 1,500 deaths per year in America if we pass adequate heat standards. The choice facing policymakers is not whether we can afford to protect workers from extreme heat, but whether we can afford not to. Read more in @azcentral.com www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

Arizonans die from working in the heat. Fixing it is simple | Opinion

We know it gets hot in Phoenix in the summer. But requiring access to shade and water could keep outdoor workers safer and avoid heat-related deaths.

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‪It's 95 degrees in Cambridge today. If you can't imagine spending time outside, imagine being a worker on a shift with no heat standards at your outdoor job. It's dangerous and it's preventable. Check out our latest report with @groundwork.bsky.social clje.law.harvard.edu/extreme-heat...

Extreme Heat is Killing America’s Workers - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

A report from Groundwork Collaborative, Workshop, and Center for Labor and a Just Economy outlines a coordinated campaign by corporations,…

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Science saves lives: check out our new interactive resource created with our partners @harvardgh.bsky.social that busts myths about heat and worker safety. Don’t see one? Submit your own for publication! clje.law.harvard.edu/heat-worker-...

Our nation’s labor laws are broken. There are strategies that worker advocates and lawmakers in pro-worker and even anti-worker states can employ to fill gaps left by federal labor law. Read the latest from @sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social clje.law.harvard.edu/leveraging-t...

Leveraging the Laboratories of Democracy to Empower Workers - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

Our nation’s labor laws are broken. A record number of Americans approve of unions, but there’s a tremendous gap between…

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Misinformation can be deadly. It’s time to bust the myths about heat and worker safety: check out our new interactive resource with our partners @harvardgh.bsky.social and submit your own myth for publication ⬇️ clje.law.harvard.edu/heat-worker-...

"Organized labor is a key ally not only in providing skilled workers but also in building the political coalitions that make large-scale public investment possible." Read more from @rdnayak.bsky.social on why prevailing wages matter for abundance @onlabor.bsky.social onlabor.org/why-prevaili...

Why Prevailing Wages Matter for Abundance ✦ OnLabor

We’ve seen some important post-mortems of the Biden administration’s Investing in America agenda, a massive industrial policy effort aimed at leveraging public and private-sector investments to expand...

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NEW: Extreme heat causes 28,000 workplace injuries in the US. Ensuring workers have access to water, shade, & rest could prevent up to 1,500 deaths every year. The solutions exist. Corporations & politicians alike would rather raise profits than save lives.

Extreme Heat is Killing America’s Workers - Groundwork Collaborative

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NEW: UPS & Amazon have been cited for hundreds of safety heat-related violations — with fines exceeding $2 million. These companies would rather spend millions fighting safety rules than spend far less implementing them. Meanwhile workers are dying in their trucks and on their worksites.

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A new paper from @harvardsalata.bsky.social underscores the importance of collaboration across disciplines in developing the country’s heat adaptation strategies. We're grateful for such dedicated partners in our shared pursuit of equitable solutions salatainstitute.harvard.edu/rethinking-h...

Rethinking how India adapts to extreme heat - The Salata Institute

A new white paper brings together multiple disciplines to examine how extreme heat is reshaping life and livelihoods across India.

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Find CLJE Fellow @rdnayak.bsky.social and Executive Director @sharblock.bsky.social in @harvardsalata.bsky.social’s new interdisciplinary white paper on how extreme heat is reshaping life and livelihoods across India ⬇️ salatainstitute.harvard.edu/rethinking-h...

Rethinking how India adapts to extreme heat - The Salata Institute

A new white paper brings together multiple disciplines to examine how extreme heat is reshaping life and livelihoods across India.

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We have some amazing CLJE alums! Check out our recent profile on former research assistant Tascha Shahriari-Parsa to hear about his journey into labor law, what motivates him to protect workers' rights, and how CLJE shaped his time at Harvard Law School and beyond: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMyW...

CLJE Alumni Profiles: Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

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Partisan divides in judicial review are deepening. “Labor law has been at the leading edge of the politicization in the courts that a lot of other policy areas are more recently experiencing." @sharblock.bsky.social @bloomberglaw.com @robertiafolla.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Growing Judicial Polarization Complicates NLRB’s Court Tests

Partisan differences in judicial review of National Labor Relations Board decisions are poised to expand as the Trump administration adds even more judges to courts that have stepped up their scrutiny...

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“There is a pattern that we’re seeing developing at MGB to be maximalist in their sort of litigating approach to their employees’ desire to unionize. Just because they can make an argument doesn’t mean that they should.” @sharblock.bsky.social in @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/23/b...

‘We’re sick of these discrepancies’: MGB cancer clinicians say they’re underpaid, face battle to unionize - The Boston Globe

MGB is facing yet another round of growing pains as it tries to integrate its two flagship hospitals and position itself as a cancer powerhouse.'

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Check out our new working papers on state and local strategies to fund labor organizations. In partnership with Workshop, the papers are part of our State and Local Labor Policy Working Paper Series. Stay tuned for more: clje.law.harvard.edu/state-and-lo...

State and Local Labor Policy Working Paper Series - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

NEW WORKING PAPERS: 3/18/2026 State and Local Labor Policy Working Paper Series CLJE and Workshop hosted working groups and a…

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Our new working paper, “Government Funding for Worker Organizations for Outreach and Education, Enforcement, and/or Delivering Public Benefits or Training,” proposes organizations receive public funds to help agencies implement worker protection laws or training programs: tinyurl.com/GovFundingLa...

In partnership with Workshop, we’ve launched two new working papers on state and local strategies to fund labor organizations, as part of our State and Local Labor Policy Working Paper Series. Read more @onlabor.bsky.social: onlabor.org/building-wor...

Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Funding Labor Organizations to Build Power ✦ OnLabor

Labor unions and other worker organizations serve vital roles in our economy, protecting workers and fighting for their voice in the workplace and in politics. But despite skyrocketing public support ...

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“We were always very interested in finding strange coalitions that we could be building, in terms of support for parts of the work that didn’t necessarily fall on partisan lines.” Read more from our visit from @linamkhan.bsky.social ⬇️ hls.harvard.edu/today/khan-o...

Khan on ‘finding strange coalitions’ at the FTC - Harvard Law School

Former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan discusses her advocacy for enforcing antitrust laws.

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Former FTC Chair @linamkhan.bsky.social joined us last week for a conversation with @sharblock.bsky.social reflecting on her tenure at the FTC and the role of antitrust in protecting workers, consumers, innovation, and broad-based economic growth. Catch the talk here: tinyurl.com/yevxphrt #antitrust

Antitrust and the Rule of Law: A Conversation with Former FTC Chair Lina Khan

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