Check out new research from @adamdean.bsky.social and @jamiemccallum.bsky.social, which looks at the nation's first outdoor heat standard. Findings suggest that properly designed and enforced comprehensive heat standards can protect workers as temperatures rise www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

A look back at 2025: through worker-centered research and convenings to collaborate on innovative labor policies, we’ve continued to strive to advance ideas for building worker power in increasingly challenging times. Here’s to more innovation in 2026. clje.law.harvard.edu/a-year-in-re...

Check out our year in review! From publishing reports on state and local policy and the relationship between labor and democracy to hosting former senators and ambassadors, we’ve had a productive 2025. Here’s to more collaboration and innovation in 2026. clje.law.harvard.edu/a-year-in-re...

Check out our Year in Review! It's been a productive year: through worker-centered research and convenings to collaborate on innovative labor policies, we’ve continued to strive to advance ideas for building worker power in increasingly challenging times. clje.law.harvard.edu/a-year-in-re...

"Finding a middle ground between the progressive and conservative versions of labor-law reform will [not] be easy. But the consensus on at least the need for reform is a reason for optimism." - @sharblock.bsky.social debating the future of unions in @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

We hosted Ambassador Katherine Tai to talk about her time as the 19th U.S. Trade Representative under President Biden, where she conducted unprecendented investigations and enforced novel actions to center workers' rights in trade. Watch the conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqSn...

What does it look like for a trade policy that promotes economic growth, opportunity, and security to put workers front and center? Join us TODAY at 12:30pm ET to hear from Ambassador Katherine Tai moderated by @sharblock.bsky.social. Register at tinyurl.com/KTaiZoom:

In automating hiring, employers are automating bias. AI plays a major role in hiring, yet the U.S. has failed to establish coherent guardrails even as jurisdictions like the European Union have acted decisively. Read our latest on regulating AI in the workplace: onlabor.org/europe-is-re...

What does it look like for a trade policy that promotes economic growth, opportunity, and security to put workers front and center? Join us on Zoom Nov. 20 at 12:30pm ET to hear from Ambassador Katherine Tai moderated by @sharblock.bsky.social. Join us at tinyurl.com/KTaiZoom

Catch our Director of Innovation, @michelleimiller.bsky.social, at the New York Public Library on Nov. 20 for Understanding AI with Data & Society: Standing Up for Human Value in the AI Economy. Register in person or livestream: www.showclix.com/event/unders...

“The board of Starbucks has suggested that they believe shareholders hold all the power. But this is a consumer-based company, consumers hold a lot of power. And there’s going to be a direct ask of them.” - @sharblock.bsky.social in @prospect.org prospect.org/2025/11/13/s...

“It’s certainly not good for the effort for workers to see that the law is so weak." - @sharblock.bsky.social in Bon Appétit on how baristas may feel deflated watching Starbucks employees gain union victories without ratified contracts www.bonappetit.com/story/barist...

Fellow Mark Erlich comments for @npr.org on declining unionization and the impact of America's current immigration policy: "There's tension between the political imperative of deportations and the interests of contractors who want certainty in planning their business." www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...

To protect the public’s rights, Congress should expand private rights of action in statutes where agencies currently serve as the only enforcers. Read more from @sharblock.bsky.social and Tanya Goldman in Harvard Law's new Journal on Legislation: journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/2025/11/...

Based on interviews with Harris County Essential Workers Board members, county officials, and worker organization representatives, our report explores challenges and strategies from the Board's early years and provides recommendations for future all-worker boards clje.law.harvard.edu/workers-at-t...

We hosted @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social for a lecture on the impact of the EU's Minimum Wage Directive on labor organizing and the power of sectoral bargaining, offering lessons for the US. Check it out below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyM...

We were honored to host Dr. Thorsten Schulten on campus at Harvard Law yesterday for a lecture on the impact of the EU's Minimum Wage Directive and the power of sectoral bargaining in Europe. Check it out below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyM... @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social

(1/2) What does it mean for working people and their communities to have a meaningful say in the policies that affect their safety and livelihoods? Watch our conversation with members of the groundbreaking Harris County Essential Workers Board to learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBJ...

Congratualtions to MI home care workers! Watch our roundtable with Mary Kay Henry and some amazing women representing the childcare, homecare, and rideshare industries, who shared their powerful stories on how they overcame challenges to organizing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElbV...

Focused on addressing global rising temperatures and the research and policy gaps that leave 2 billion workers around the world vulnerable to extreme heat, CLJE's new working group will assess the efficacy and economic impacts of heat adaptation measures. Learn more: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Check out our panel ft members of the Harris County Essential Workers Board, the Harris County Department of Economic Equity and Opportunity, and @jwj.org on the importance of including workers with lived experience in the policy-making that impacts their daily lives: www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

@poweratwork.bsky.social's 10th ep of the Power Half-Hour is out! Joining @mrsethharris.bsky.social is @cljeharvard.bsky.social Executive Director @sharblock.bsky.social, @seattleulaw.bsky.social professor Elizabeth Ford, & @chicagotribune.com reporter Talia Soglin: poweratwork.us/power-half-h...

Focused on addressing global rising temperatures and the research and policy gaps that leave 2 billion workers around the world vulnerable, CLJE's new working group will assess the efficacy and economic impacts of heat adaptation measures. Learn more: tinyurl.com/hsbwe38h

Join us 10/1 at 12:15pm ET on Zoom to hear from @greenwell.bsky.social, author of "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream." Register: tinyurl.com/GreenwellZoom

Tomorrow, 1:30pm ET: Join CLJE, Harris County Essential Workers Board members, the Harris County Department of Economic Equity and Opportunity, and @jwj.org for a webinar on the lessons, challenges, and takeaways from the early years of the board. Register: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

WEBINAR: Join CLJE this Thursday 9/25 at 1:30pm ET for a webinar featuring board members, county officials, and policy experts to unpack our new case study on the Harris County Essential Workers Board and to explore how it builds worker power. Register: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

How can workers' boards help working people have a meaningful say in the policies that affect their health, safety, and livelihoods? Join us Sept. 25 at 1:30pm ET for a webinar unpacking our latest report on the Harris County Essential Workers Board. Register ⬇️ clje.law.harvard.edu/events/worke...

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Tomorrow 9am ET! Join us for a webinar exploring heat action plans in Ahmedabad, Boston, and Cape Town, and why engaging with workers and their representatives is central to their success. Register: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On Sept. 16 at 9am ET, join CLJE, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, and @africaharvard.bsky.social to learn from the challenges and impacts of heat action plans implemented in India, South Africa, and Massachusetts. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"In [a] sectoral bargaining regime, no firm in a market is disadvantaged by being union because every firm in the market is covered by the union contract." CLJE's Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs weigh in on what's needed to reform labor law @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Join us Sept. 16, 9am ET for “Protecting Workers in Heat Action Plans,” a webinar that will explore how Ahmedabad, Boston, and Cape Town have developed and implemented Heat Action Plans, and why engaging with workers is central to their success. Register: tinyurl.com/HeatPlans

Essential workers kept things running during COVID, yet lacked substantive protections and voice on the job. Read about how the Harris County Essential Workers Board sought to address these issues and continues to empower essential workers today: tinyurl.com/CLJE-HCEWB

🌆 Join CLJE, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, and the Harvard Center for African Studies, Africa Office on Sept. 16 to learn how Ahmedabad, Boston, and Cape Town have developed and implemented Heat Action Plans. Register ⬇️ harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Building a labor law that actually enables workers to form unions requires a lot more than tinkering with the existing systems." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

What does it mean for working people to have a meaningful say in the policies that affect their safety and livelihoods? Check out our new report on the groundbreaking Harris County Essential Workers Board, which ensures policy is shaped by lived experience: clje.law.harvard.edu/workers-at-t...

(1/2) Happy Labor Day! Check out our new case study report on the groundbreaking Harris County Essential Workers Board for insights and recommendations for policymakers, members of future boards, and government staff: clje.law.harvard.edu/workers-at-t...

A recent email to EPA employees discouraging union activity on personal time raises ethics concerns and could "have a pretty serious chilling effect on their willingness to engage with their union at all," according to @sharblock.bsky.social. More from @wgbh.org ⬇️ www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Currently, one in six live below the federal poverty line. If the 2015 rule is rescinded, these workers wouldn’t even be required to be paid $7.25 under federal law.

"Rolling back [protections for care workers] isn’t modernization—it’s choosing corporations and their profits over working women." CLJE Fellow Seema Nanda in @msmagazine.com on the rule that would rollback wage protections for more than 1.5 million care workers msmagazine.com/2025/08/20/t...

"The democratic principles that give workers a claim to voice over wages and hours similarly demand workers have voice in these other decisions...that have profound impacts on the workers and their communities." Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/arch...

"It matters not whether someone is employed directly, is employed by a subcontractor or by a franchisee, or is an independent contractor." Professors Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs describe the power of sectoral bargaining in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/arch...

As OSHA continues to move their heat stress rule forward, many of us agree: we need to work together to adapt to rising temperatures in a way that centers worker safety. We've been learning from action plans created by cities and states around the world: salatainstitute.harvard.edu/how-work-and...

We recommend AI impact monitors in any new regulatory or statutory scheme related to the use of AI in the workplace. The basic idea of the monitor is worker access to accurate information. Check out more of our recommendations in our report: clje.law.harvard.edu/worker-power...

"It would be devastating for workers to lose the bedrock protections of the NLRA...Equally concerning, the fall of the NLRA would have troubling consequences for our democracy." Read our analysis in Democracy Journal ⬇️ democracyjournal.org/magazine/77/...

Our report, The Varied Voice of Labor: Unpacking the Political Engagement of Labor in the 2024 Election, focuses on unions’ role in political education, communication, and mobilization. Check out data on political engagement within unions, how union members voted, and more: tinyurl.com/VariedVoices

"Maybe people will be mad that another worker is making $5 more than them. Don’t begrudge them that. We should all be [asking] why someone else is making millions in a stock buyback. It all comes down to divide and conquer.” - @dropkickmurphys.com's Ken Casey @harvard.edu tinyurl.com/ab8vvpbe

Come for the music, stay for the message! Watch an extended excerpt from our interview with Ken Casey (@dropkickmurphys.com), Professor @sharblock.bsky.social, and Sing for Science podcast host Matt Whyte: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ53...

Looking for summer reading? 🏖️📚 Explore the inspiring landscape of policies that build worker power at the state and local levels with our toolkit, Building Worker Power in Cities and States! ⬇️ #workerpower clje.law.harvard.edu/publication/...

On July 2nd, Harvard announced that it had decided to remove a significant number of graduate students from the bargaining unit represented by HGSU. These conclusions run counter to recent history in the law and at Harvard. For more, check out our recent analysis: onlabor.org/the-hgsu-bar...