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Structural Labor Rights, Hiba Hafiz Feb 2021

Structural Labor Rights, Hiba Hafiz

Michigan Law Review

American labor law was designed to ensure equal bargaining power between workers and employers. But workers’ collective power against increasingly dominant employers has disintegrated. With union density at an abysmal 6.2 percent in the private sector—a level unequaled since the Great Depression— the vast majority of workers depend only on individual negotiations with employers to lift stagnant wages and ensure upward economic mobility. But decentralized, individual bargaining is not enough. Economists and legal scholars increasingly agree that, absent regulation to protect workers’ collective rights, labor markets naturally strengthen employers’ bargaining power over workers. Existing labor and antitrust law have failed …


Peril And Possibility: Strikes, Rights, And Legal Change In The Era Of Trump, Kate Andrias Apr 2018

Peril And Possibility: Strikes, Rights, And Legal Change In The Era Of Trump, Kate Andrias

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Everyone in this audience is well aware of the problems plaguing reiterating. The wealthiest one percent of Americans takes home nearly a quarter of our national income and owns forty percent of the nation's wealth.


The New Labor Law, Kate Andrias Oct 2016

The New Labor Law, Kate Andrias

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Labor law is failing. Disfigured by courts, attacked by employers, and rendered inapt by a global and fissured economy, many of labor law’s most ardent proponents have abandoned it altogether. And for good reason: the law that governs collective organization and bargaining among workers has little to offer those it purports to protect. Several scholars have suggested ways to breathe new life into the old regime, yet their proposals do not solve the basic problem. Labor law developed for the New Deal does not provide solutions to today’s inequities. But all hope is not lost. From the remnants of the …


Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: The Inadequacy Of Modest Proposals To Reform Labor Law, Charles B. Craver May 1995

Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: The Inadequacy Of Modest Proposals To Reform Labor Law, Charles B. Craver

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Agenda for Reform: The Future of Employment Relationships and the Law by William B. Gould IV


Evaluating Unions: Labor Economics And The Law, Michael J. Goldberg Apr 1986

Evaluating Unions: Labor Economics And The Law, Michael J. Goldberg

Michigan Law Review

A Review ofWhat Do Unions Do? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff