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Prof @BerkeleyLaw - work law, unions, political economy. Fellow @rooseveltinst . Prev @WeAreCTA @AFLCIO . Parent of 2 littles, TX-CA hybrid & lover of mediocre TV
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I started working on this piece ten years ago, as a teachers' union lawyer during the height of Recession-era critiques of public sector unionism. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested. I'm very happy to announce it's now officially forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal.
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I take it back.
Ok I know this is an annoyingly first-year law prof thing to say - but I'm really looking forward to reading my students' exams!!! I'm so proud of my
#WorkLaw
and
#UnionsAndInequality
students. It's a hard time in the world and in higher ed, and they sat with all the complexity.
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Justice Sotomayor in this morning's Glacier NW oral argument:
"[ER's counsel, what] you're saying [is], you as an employee have to continue an employment duty with me until all of my profits are safe. That's what I see you arguing."
(i.e. your position implicates the 13th Am)
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If American law schools were ranked based on institutional happiness -- kindness, collegiality, and communal well-being -- of students, staff, and faculty, what does the top ten look like?? (And don't you dare say empty! 😆)
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After a year of flying across the country meeting so many brilliant and kind people, I am thrilled to announce that...I'm not going anywhere! On July 1, I'll be starting as an Asst
#LawProf
right here at
@BerkeleyLaw
! I love this incredible community and am grateful beyond words!
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My advisor, dissertation chair, colleague, and friend, the brilliant and incomparable Lauren Edelman, passed away today. She was hilarious and down-to-earth and a fighter for causes and for people. It's such a painful loss.
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Look what arrived just in time for my bday! In honor of the occasion (+in hopes of not tripping over this box), can I mail you a copy?? So much work went into this, and I'd love to see it out there (also out of here). Comment or DM and I'll send!
#UnionsForAll
#LawReviewsForAll
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And...it's out! Agree with me? Disagree with me? Qs or concerns? I'll be discussing today at the
@HarvardLPE
@LPE_Project
conference at
@Harvard_Law
-- let's talk! Thanks to the
@YaleLJournal
and to all of you, for helping me through the approx 10,000 revisions that led here.
@dianareddy
(
@UCBerkeley
) examines the “Keynesian compromise” in labor law, which cast the social value of workers’ rights in economic terms. To reinvigorate the labor movement, we must revive argumentation about the meaning of justice at work:
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It's
#NewLawRevArticles
reveal day y'all: Thrilled that Transaction Benefits at Work is forthcoming in
@ColumLRev
! TL;DR - How we organize work matters not just for wealth max but for social cohesion. When it comes to these transaction benefits, employment trumps gig work/robots.
I've been thinking through this piece for years, and it's almost in a form that I can send out (
#LRSubmissions
!). For now, if you're interested in the
#FutureOfWork
or
#LPE
or how we bridge our disciplinary divides, LMK. I can share a draft and would *love* to get your thoughts.
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I've been thinking through this piece for years, and it's almost in a form that I can send out (
#LRSubmissions
!). For now, if you're interested in the
#FutureOfWork
or
#LPE
or how we bridge our disciplinary divides, LMK. I can share a draft and would *love* to get your thoughts.
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Ok I know this is an annoyingly first-year law prof thing to say - but I'm really looking forward to reading my students' exams!!! I'm so proud of my
#WorkLaw
and
#UnionsAndInequality
students. It's a hard time in the world and in higher ed, and they sat with all the complexity.
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Economic sociologists/LPE scholars don't say, "I'm going on the market." We say, "I'm going on the social sorting process." And I think that's beautiful.
#lawschool
#LPE
#lawtwitter
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@JuliaHlna
@oonahathaway
It wasn't until I returned to legal academia after practicing that I realized how dependent the entire system is on the unpaid labor of student editors (and, coming from a labor perspective here, how vulnerable it would be if those editors decided to engage in collective action)
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It's been a tough week. But then I received 30(!) applications from students interested in RAing for my "work law and social movements" project, analyzing changing discourse about work and how to regulate it from 1950-1990. Student excitement makes everything better.
#Berkeley
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Listen/read more here:
This is a case that's not just about union workers or union rights; it's about fundamental freedoms.
#scotus
#glacierNW
@Teamsters
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I had the honor of my life today as the master of ceremonies for the investiture of the Honorable Jennifer Sung. It fills me with joy that this great human has been entrusted with defending our Constitution and the rule of law in the United States.
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Ok, friends, I see y'alls glowing student evals and raise you this here one, which I'm truly delighted by: "She's an amazing professor...and one of the few I think who acts like a normal human being." 😂
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Excited to be part of this incredible group of scholars and experts; even more excited to talk with law students about how current law doesn't just fail, but constrains our ability to imagine substantive work justice, and where we go from here:
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Folks who have been doing this longer (or who are just wiser), advice on how to mindfully navigate
#LRSubmissions
without the rapid mood/self-worth cycling? Like how to just be steady and equanimous? Is this all a karmic test? (And if so, am I amazing at it or horrible at it?)
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Just submitted my FAR form...while on family vacation...during which my son came down with herpangina and cried 20% of the time, my husband caught a cold, and my toddler was...a toddler. There's not an emoji for this multitude but grateful still for everything, excerpt herpangina
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In the middle of this humane, funny, poingant, brilliant, yet fully accessible, book by
@jamalgreene
, and thinking maybe a stint as a reporter should be required training for all legal academics....???
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Our 4-yr-old got mad at us this morning about something and scrunched up his face and said, "Now I'm gonna sing a song you don't like!" Then he grabbed his ukulele and sang "Guns, guns, guns and guns, and guns, guns" to the tune of the ABCs for two minutes straight.
#Parenting
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Are there any labor politics folks out there with quant skills who might be interested in chatting about and/or potentially collaborating on some survey experiment work re: labor and public opinion?? If so, please msg! Would love to talk.
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And here's my piece from the LPE panel on the CRT panic. Money, organizations, and Milton Friedman.
Today,
@dianareddy
argues that recent attacks on CRT must be understood as part of the long effort by conservatives to promote "school choice."
Whether you want critical or uncritical race theory, the market can satisfy all “tastes” in racial education.
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Check out my amazing colleagues
Eight professors have just joined the Berkeley Law faculty, continuing a transformational run of hiring during Dean Erwin Chemerinsky’s tenure.
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It is still very much a work in progress. I'll post on SSRN soon. In the meantime, please let me know if you're interested in taking a look, and I'll send!
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talking about worker protest, law, and political economy in yale law journal forum: . so grateful to
@kateandrias
@CatherineFisk1
@JosephMcCartin
and many others for helping me think through this piece. and to
@YaleLJournal
for the...forum (ba dum tss!)
Now live: our Collection on The Progressive Era, 100 Years Later. Featuring Essays by
@Vermeullarmine
(
@Harvard_Law
), Philip K. Howard (
@CovingtonLLP
), James W. Fox Jr. (
@stetsonlaw
), and
@dianareddy
(PhD
@UCBerkeley
).
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One of many amazing responses to my survey research on attitudes towards unions: "I think they are a necessary evil. They help raise wages but through being annoying."
#ThereIsPowerInAnnoying
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Folks attending
@law_soc
this week: Our LPE 101 panel is where you bring all your questions (and all your friends who have questions!) about LPE -- as a theoretical perspective, a method, and an inevitably/inherently political project. Would love to see you there!
There are SO many panels in the 2023
@law_soc
LPE CRN (
@LPE_network
)!
Flagging just 1…
“LPE 101” w/
@akapczynski
Angela Harris
@dianareddy
&
@RaulACarrillo
Chair: Jay Varellas
Fri. @ 10AM!
Whether ur new to LPE or not, come join the roundtable chat!
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Thank you
@LPEblog
for this chance to discuss some of the questions that propelled me back to academia after years of practice: what is the relationship between unions, bargaining, and the common good...and who decides? Thanks also to the incredible
@LDHerrine
and Derrick Rice!
Today
@dianareddy
examines the possibilities and pitfalls of the emerging union strategy of "bargaining for the common good". What to do when, as in the case of school reopening during COVID, labor's conception of the "common good" is unpopular?
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There are many wonderful things about being on the law market this year (people are kind, and my neurons are on 🔥 from all the incisive feedback). It's also fascinating to hear so many folks reflect on the fact that, turns out, a 'lil centralized planning was a very good thing
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You'll never guess which two signs my kids contributed. Hint: one of them has decided to talk like Cookie Monster at all times, and one of them is 2 years old
#UAWonStrike
#Grateful
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"[T]he Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Jennifer Sung, a former union organizer, lawyer and Oregon state labor board member whose selection for the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit faced stiff Republican opposition."
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Flat Stanley projects create some very useful
#interestconvergence
. I'm on a work trip away from the family, but my 1st grader isn't mad, as long as I keep sending him these pics.
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best news of an otherwise difficult week: i have officially joined the club of those *forever indebted* to
@NoahZatz
for his support. really grateful for this generous and incisive review of my YLJF piece on illegal strikes:
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As soon as I saw the call for
#HotTopics
at
#AALS2024
, I knew there had to be one on
#HotLaborSummer
. Delighted I got to conceptualize this, bummed I couldn't be there (I helped my mom move out of her home of 40 years instead), & amazed as always by my brilliant colleagues.
I loved engaging on all things
#hotlabor
& discussing ways America's hundreds of millions of
#nonunion
workers are cut out of legislative protections, at
#AALS2024
. Thanks to
@MichaelMOswalt
@gracabi
@dau_schmidt
(
@dianareddy
in spirit). More to come on
#laborstrifeandpeace
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A lot of my writing is critical of the deregulatory impulses of mainstream second wave feminism. I think it's good for me to spend some time in the archives, and be reminded of the conditions that prompted those choices.
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I'd like to dedicate this incredible honor to all the argumentative Reddys in my family, current and ancestral, who made me this way
Writing a paper with a section titled "The Reddy Argument" following
@dianareddy
's awesome YLJ piece. Brilliant and useful. What more can one ask for in scholarship.
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Yesterday, I had the time of my life chatting
#LawofApoliticalEconomy
with the
@NLRB
as part of their annual
#ConstitutionalityDay
celeb (commemorating the 1937
#SCOTUS
decision upholding the
#NLRA
). The reverence that these public servants have for their legal mandate is 🥲🩷⚡️
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Profs out there, do any of y'all currently teach an Intro to Work Law, Work Law Survey, or just general Work Law course?? If so, would love to see your syllabus and would love to chat!
#lawtwitter
#lawschool
#worklaw
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I'll always remember the clerkship interview in which a *liberal* federal judge looked at the union organizing experience on my resume, and asked, with great concern, whether I was planning to organize a law clerk union. (I didn't get that clerkship.) We've come a long way!
"[T]he Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Jennifer Sung, a former union organizer, lawyer and Oregon state labor board member whose selection for the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit faced stiff Republican opposition."
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At
@AmericanLawEcon
Conference listening to econ folks talk seriously about unions, political participation, and Excelsior lists and it's thrilling.
#ALEA
#LawAndBidenomics
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Saw this sign and spent a good long while wondering whether the store was a sports museum or whether it sold equipment for old-timey sports. As it turns out, neither, because...archrival not archival.
#researchbrain
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Y'all, sometimes Twitter is a cesspool of negativity...and sometimes it's not! Thanks so much to
@womenknowlaw
for spreading the word about my work and the work of so many other ppl.
Hot off the press! Check out
@dianareddy
’s latest in
@YaleLJournal
, “After the Law of Apolitical Economy: Reclaiming the Normative Stakes of Labor Unions”
#WomenAlsoKnowLaw
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How do you describe the difference between private law and public law, and the messy area betwixt and between??
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A senior colleague wrote this comment on one of my drafts, and I'm delighted: "What exactly is 'hang together' supposed to mean here, Diana? To me, it connotes movements, frames, and legal interventions sitting on a porch smoking weed together."
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@ShawnFainUAW
said it best. When the wealthy and powerful talk about "the economy," they often just mean their immediate pecuniary interests. This strike is about much more than UAW members. It is about the economic lives of the 99% and
#TheFutureofAllWorkers
.
#StandUpUAW
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@corinneblalock
this is because of the work you and countless others have done to open up the conversation! academia is a dialogue, and when i was in law school, there simply was not an entry point for the things i wanted to say
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My take on Glacier -- and the footnote that didn't make it into the union's brief...
Here's
@dianareddy
on the logic behind the Court's latest labor rulings, and the insidious legacy of "the law of apolitical economy"—in which economic issues are analyzed as separate from, and less important than, social issues.
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The UC Berkeley HR Office is now called the Office of "People and Culture"
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@derektmuller
Faculty
#41
: "I just don't understand the directionality of your baking. Are you saying that the cake has chocolate in it, or that chocolate is in the cake?"
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who's in? i'll srsly lead a meditation on the feelings of
#LRSubmissions
that will last until we reach enlightenment
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Re-reading Cynthia Estlund's *1982 student note* in which she argued: "Current First Amendment doctrine concerning labor picketing and commercial advertising...has...revived the Lochner era's hierarchy of protected values." I'm self-interested here, but labor scholarship is imptI
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All that is to say, I think there's a huge value in having teachers for whom the material was never self-evident, who had to make their way through it step by step, and who can connect with students as they do the same. 2/2
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I'll be there, speaking about historical lessons for labor strategy! So very excited to be in dialogue with all these great folks.
🎺📜 HERE WE GO! In ~4 weeks, from March 31 - April 2, the LPE Project & LPE
@HLS
will host a small conference, “Law and Political Economy: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower,” at Harvard.
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Loving this conversation -- keep weighing in, y'all! But also -- apologies/much appreciation to the law school social media folks now working on a Saturday!
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Employers' claims about diversity increasingly advance a "particularly pernicious vision of employer control...characterized by...paternalistic rhetoric but committed at root to the 'institutionalization of hierarchical power.'" Ahmed A. White, My Coworker, My Enemy...(2015)
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Page 188 of Starbucks' post-hearing brief to the NLRB -- P.S. you're unconstitutional anyway!!!
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And as I truly can't say enough, I learned so much from being in conversation with
@DrMamaEsq
,
@nikhil_palsingh
, and Aziz Rana. And forever grateful for the work of
@j_e_brandt
,
@RaulACarrillo
,
@corinneblalock
,
@akapczynski
, and the
@LPEblog
and
@LPE_Project
.
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I think a lot about how I'd assumed that I'd be a good yoga teacher, because I'm naturally flexible. Instead, I was awful. I couldn't understand the process students were going through. I'd be like, "now, take your leg, and just wrap it all around your head." 1/2
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So glad this is happening (and so bummed I can't be there in person!!!)
The day after
@FlyingWithSara
gives the Gruber Lecture (in conversation with LPE's own
@akapczynski
), we are hosting a🤯 hybrid panel with
@FlyingWithSara
,
@_ericblanc
, Charles Du (
@32BJSEIU
), & Lorena Lopez (
@UNITEHERE11
), moderated by
@gabrielwinant
!
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As the
@USTreasury
just concluded, unions are economically impt. Unions help workers improve their jobs, and that rising tide lifts up other workers too, union & non-union. By more equitably distributing wealth, unions spur economic growth, not to mention promote equality. 2/3
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Is it too on the nose to say that climate change is now *literally* stealing my joy?
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@rsgexp
Because you are a brilliant organizer, you've been preparing us for this, to carry on the work without you, from the very beginning. Thank you for your incomparable generosity, wisdom, and faith. It will be heartbreaking but we're ready. You can rest now ❤️
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@billyez2
@EtienneT_Esq
Why do you think that is? Other than that they hire kind, collegial, wonderful human beings (e.g.
@_joymilligan
and
@Bertrall_Ross
)!
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Brilliant post, from a brilliant talk. And for those who haven't watched the video of the original panel discussion, it was so wonderfully generative and collaborative.
Today,
@DrMamaEsq
argues that anti-CRT activity treats education as property, rather than as a social public good. Parents & taxpayers are thus entitled to have their wishes granted, even when those wishes contradict the judgment of educational experts.
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@sanjuktampaul
just wanted you to know that there are a group of people in a plaza in lisbon rn discussing your work and relying on it to situate their own 💗🧠💗
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Team work law makes the dream work law! (FYI I have been told the weather will be perfect, although I have been able to unverify this.)
Bumping our CFP - work law junior scholars workshop
@cornellilr
- faculty, practitioners, students - all are welcome!
Tagging some folks to spread the word:
@kateandrias
@WorkLawProf
@matthewtbodie
@dianareddy
@DorfmanDoron
@PowerAtWorkBlog
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#WorkLaw
folks: heads up that
#BJELL
(perhaps you've heard of it!) is actively looking for more
#LRSubmissions
for the current cycle. Authors can submit articles through
@scholasticaLR
. More info here: . Email the editors with ?s here: bjell
@berkeley
.edu.
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As a former teachers' union attorney and a mom of a kid in public school, I certainly don't agree with every decision made by every union. But I also support the right of unions to do things I don't agree with.
We have to be able to talk abtthe harms of remote learning in a society where vaccines are available for all teachers without being accused of being anti-union or anti-teacher. We can disagree on what is the best thing to do when there are no good options without that accusation.
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#AcademicTwitter
#lawtwitter
-- Any recs on scholarship at the intersection of queer theory, labor/work studies, and (if at all possible) law??
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I could not be more excited and honored to share with you all my post-grad plants...
#PhalmostDone
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World -- what are some good written guides for workers that provide clear and strategic guidance on how to publicly shame unfair bosses, employers, and platforms without running afoul of defamation laws?
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I'm presenting in Atlanta today, otherwise this would be the sole focus of my day. Check it out, y'all!
As LPE's designated hypeman, I am excited about all of our events, but not many (if any) more than this one!
Today's 🔥🔥 Future of Worker Power event at 12:10pm includes
@FlyingWithSara
,
@_ericblanc
, Charles Du (
@32BJSEIU
), & Lorena Lopez (
@UNITEHERE11
), &
@gabrielwinant
!
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Two of my takeaways from this 🔥discussion: (1) do the Trumpian and progressive critiques of employer authoritarianism have any overlap, and if so, what is the political upshot?; and (2) what are the alternatives to the currently intractable political battle about vaccines?
Today,
@LDHerrine
,
@NoahZatz
,
@veenadubal
,
@BlakeProf
,
@dianareddy
,
@n_hold
, &
@cgrueskin
offer their initial reactions to the Court's recent decision blocking OSHA's vaccine-or-test mandate.
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American labor law demands that individual workers in individual workplaces scratch and claw, against all odds, to build and rebuild the conditions of their empowerment. But workplace democracy and countervailing power are *social* goods, and need to be regulated as such.
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Werk it law
#TBT
2023
@COSELLWorkLaw
@UofMNLawSchool
night out ft. attractive work law scholars
@nicolebporter
@StephBornstein
@DorfmanDoron
@dianareddy
@LawProfJHarris
@gracabi
@MichaelMOswalt
! Come hang out with us
@USanDiegoLaw
+
@CWSL_News
, Sep. 13-14🌊Register:
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THIS IS INCREDIBLE NEWS!
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In El Cerrito, where I live, the trash containers are *blue* and the recycling containers are *grey*, and every time I take out the trash, I feel like I'm in the middle of a poorly-conceived Implicit Association Test.
#psychology
#recycling
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@IvvyNemo
In my experience (and there's research to support it), the relationship between wealth, status, and actual happiness is only linear up to a certain point.
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"full freedom of association" and "actual liberty of contract" are what labor law is all about
I spoke with the economist
@JosephEStiglitz
about his new book, "The Road to Freedom," a timely effort to retake the language of individual liberty from the right. "Neoliberalism is on the defensive," he said. "But it's going to be a battle."
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ACS excerpting part of After the Law of Apolitical Economy in its
#ExpertForum
today!
In the
#ExpertForum
,
@dianareddy
explores how the apolitical economy has constrained the conversation about unions and obscured that the power to realize good jobs is itself a normative good.
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@david__simon
I mean, I really can't complain (this is the herpangina victim, bribed to smile his sweetest smile)
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Academics who use
#MTurk
, this is a huge ethical issue that should be of concern to us, our institutions, and our
#IRBs
.
@Amazon
permits
#MTurk
requestors to mass reject work, not pay the workers, and STILL KEEP THE WORK THEY PERFORMED. It's akin to wage theft.
#AcademicTwitter
Since then we’ve had 2 meetings w/Amazon
#Mturk
folks, sent multiple emails, and still have not been provided w/evidence of any progress.
Mass rejections harm worker ratings & livelihoods. Please stand w/us in telling Amazon workers deserve protection from unfair practices.
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a meditation teacher once told me to think of the difficult ppl in my life as impt teachers, b/c frictions reveal where you need to grow. i'm now thinking we should treat
#LRSubmissions
as a very difficult person in our lives -- a koan to help us ask "who am i? how do i know?"!
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