I love to explain the Saturday Night Massacre in class (relevant to labor law primarily for those it involved, sometimes comes up in other classes) and then note to people born in the 21st century that “this was considered quite a scandal in its day.”

There are some real improvements to labor law in Mass. Chapter 150F, which extended state labor law coverage to Uber and Lyft drivers. Voters passed it through initiative, and it fixes a number of problems with remedies under the NLRA and the MA baby Wagner Act in Chapter 150A. 1/

first state employment relations board to say high school junior varsity athletes are workers protected by their law will go immediately into the labor hall of fame

“The Mandalorian and Grogu” is about a worker locked into an ideology in which he believes independent contractor status would give him more freedom than employee status. Also, large poisonous space snakes.

It is "unionize or die" time in American higher ed. Yes, that means you and your special work. I don't care if you're "not political," because our enemies are very political.

If Massachusetts is getting hit by meteors (big if at his point), do we think it’s just the one?

it’s also the fact that the right stormed the capitol and 5 years later are asking for millions out of it. the left and the right are absolutely not living under similar first amendment paradigms

one of the old union lawyers i worked for used to lament that protest and action in this country had been reduced to "walking in a circle in a fenced off designated area holding signs" and said it was a bad sign for our society and you know what

NB: This is a great time to get involved with a group like LUCE

Need @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online to weigh in on apparent SovCit case in MA this morning. Pl. attempted to change name because "continued use of the all-capitalized variant constitutes an ens legis (legal fiction) inconsistent with [p]etitioner's living identity and right to self-determination."

Wu won't cross grad-student picket line; cancels Harvard Law commencement address www.universalhub.com/2026/wu-wont... #Boston #CambridgeMA

Anyway I am very happy to fight for free college and childcare both because I want that for my kid and cause I want that for everyone else's kids too.

Massachusetts is now officially home to the country's first union of Uber and Lyft drivers, 18 months after the ballot question that gave them the right to collectively bargain. Here's a look at their next steps: www.wbur.org/news/2026/05... @wbur.org

Yes, it has indeed made shareholders (and some franchisees quite rich). It has done so, in large part, by incentivizing franchisees to drive worker wages as low as people, while systematically excluding workers from labor rights.

"The 14-judge panel of the International Court of Justice, by 10 votes to ​four, said the right to strike is protected under the ​International Labour Organization's 1948 Freedom of Association treaty signed ⁠by 158 countries." www.reuters.com/business/wor...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Lawyers for Civil Rights, with Brown's Promise and Wilmer Hale, filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for constitutional violations resulting from racially segregated schools that concentrate poverty: lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/e...

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

Behave accordingly

“Don’t be mad when union workers make a good living. Instead, get a union of your own, and join them.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-the-lir...

I appreciate @natecohn.bsky.social & Eve Washington's NYT piece pointing out that random simulations of nonpartisan districting tend to produce many minority opportunity districts, perhaps as many as we have now. But although the subhead comes close, the authors do not ever quite say the key point—

No low-ballers. I know what I got.

The grocery store situation in Hamilton is dire, but “driving to Leominster” is not one of the options. There’s a Demoulas in Rowley! That said, if that type shops themselves, they rely on (1) delivery from the Beverly Whole Foods, supplemented by (2) using Crosby’s as a convenience store.

Major news! A state court in Kansas has just blocked the states gender affirming care ban! Nobody is at our desk right now so we can’t draft up a story but you all deserve to know this incredible news. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

I once organized a union at a college where we won by something like 97% and management sent out an email after the count that started “because at least 51% voted for the union…”

Hire more labor journalists!

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

Welcome to the higher ed labor movement, Penn State Faculty Alliance!

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Does Massachusetts’ constitutional guarantee for education require us to radically expand state funding and end reliance on local property taxes for ed. funding?

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

The Legal Rights of Union Stewards is now available as an audiobook! With this professional narration, you can complete your crash course on this classic Robert Schwartz manual wherever you are, in just 2.5 hours. Purchase your copy here: labornotes.org/legalrightsa...

I have been doing union work for almost two years full-time and much longer in an informal capacity and I am still amazed by how the most effective strategies continue to be Refusing to Let Things Go and Being Extremely Annoying.

It’s time for Massachusetts to create labor courts. Here’s Rep. Blanchette’s 1989 bill to create them: archives.lib.state.ma.us/server/api/c... . Give a single trial court jurisdiction over employment disputes and then fill the bench with employee- and union-side labor and employment lawyers.

The real message of Frogger is the dangers of commuting in a city that doesn't have reliable public transit.

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

"After four efforts to weaken the bill, Republican[] Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester) joined Democrats in voting for it.... His amendment to bar any entity receiving public funds for legal representation in immigration law from representing undocumented people...failed...." Tarr usually runs unopposed.

I can’t learn a new content management system for teaching. I don’t have it in me.

University Distinguished Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, was honored with a Congressional Proclamation recognizing his lifetime of contributions to public health law and policy. #NUSLPride law.northeastern.edu/daynard-hono...

this is my Massachusetts

The Odyssey but it's just trying to get from Amherst to Boston without a car

The plan? First, get a bunch of NIMBY "pricks" to approve a multifamily zoning district on a golf course. Then, take the gold course by eminent domain to build housing.

“Are you sure we’re talking about the same Christopher Columbus?” -my kindergartner, after asking me about an historical figure he learned about in school.

I'm in love with Massachusetts www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy88...

Those of us who know what Critical Race Theory is were appalled when reactionaries glommed on to the phrase to ply their agenda. It never stopped being a useful school of thought, and its authors never stopped being a hundred times more brilliant than their latter-day critics.

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Judges walked up to me—big strong men with tears in their eyes—and they said “sir, it’s the most unitary executive we’ve ever seen. Maybe the most unitary executive ever.”

Wonder how giving every pro se litigant in the country an electronic draftsman to grant credence to their delusions is going just kidding

"Employees at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston are gearing up for contract negotiations with the Seaport museum after quietly opting to unionize last month." 📰 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/03/b...