By Samantha Sanders and Margaret Poydock Soon, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the American Franchise Act (AFA), which, if passed, will make U.S. workers’ lives less affordable and increase their vulnerability to exploitative employers. The bill would weaken joint employer standards, making it harder for workers to form a union and enforce …
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Republicans are once again threatening workers’ overtime pay by reviving their “comp time” bill
In November, the House Education & Workforce Committee quietly passed yet another version of the so-called “Working Families Flexibility Act” out of committee with a party-line vote. But will this benevolent-sounding bill actually help workers? Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), our most fundamental labor protections law, most workers are entitled to overtime pay—pay …
Taking just action against Trump
My 2017 book, The Color of Law, showed that “de facto,” accidental, neighborhood segregation is a myth; in truth, government purposely enforced it, creating racial inequality in wealth, education, employment, health, and criminal justice. Readers asked, “What can we do about it now?” So in 2023, Leah Rothstein and I published a sequel, Just Action, …