A state Supreme Court ruling sets a new, higher bar for determining when workers can count as independent contractors rather than employees. It might ruin some online firms' business models.
This guy wants to run the economy?
What happens when you reclassify independent contractors as employees?
The AFL-CIO's Twitter account appears to endorse a workers' revolution.
The Vermont socialist can muster a lot of emotional outrage at CEO pay, but his argument about a "moral economy" doesn't add up.
Being a presidential candidate means never having to say sorry for heavy-handed proposals to limit choice and promise free stuff.
Plus: life after ISIS, Kansas says state constitution guarantees abortion access, and more...
After the Janus ruling, AFSCME lost 98 percent of its agency fee-paying members, while the SEIU lost 94 percent.
Plus: closing the border is bad for U.S. "profits" and Jesse Singal on left-wing identitarianism.
Paul Cadmus's Herrin Massacre is "The Painting Our Art Critic Can't Stop Thinking About." If only he'd thought harder.
The drivers argued they should be classified as employees, not contractors.
Indicted union boss John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty ordered the soda tax passed to hurt the city's Teamsters union, federal prosecutors say.
But history suggests he's the anachronism.
A conservative technocrat tries to engineer a better world.
An investigation into why people are working more without accomplishing more
How a heavily subsidized Culver City development became the nation's most expensive affordable housing project.
Two unions called out for threats to sue if they don't get hired to build.
In California, new lawsuits aim to make unions respect the Supreme Court's authority.
Striking down exclusive representation would allow labor organizers to give the boot to free-riding employees.
A state supreme court ruling jeopardizes the very idea of independent contractors in several trades.
The Supreme Court says they can't forcibly collect dues from workers unwilling to pay them, but several unions don't seem to get it.
Think labor's share of America's economic output has been plunging? Think again.
Bernie Sanders has millions of viewers who watch his socialist videos.
Compelled Subsidies and the First Amendment -- a new article with co-blogger Eugene Volokh, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review
Restaurant workers and bartenders generally opposed the minimum wage ballot initiative, which passed despite their opposition.
After Janus ruling, state lawmaker in New York wants to include collective bargaining costs in state union contracts.
Economist Michael C. Munger argues the sharing economy is the next great economic revolution—and it's already underway.
The Culinary Workers Union is demanding financial compensation and replacement jobs for workers displaced by technology.
Seeing your kids held hostage in a battle between government factions is a great incentive to look for alternatives.
Union-backed report finds unions could be screwed.
Business and labor join forces to oppose an employee head tax.
Eliminating the tip credit will raise prices for consumers and leave fewer jobs for servers.
Teachers have shut down schools across the state, allegedly to protest pension changes. But those pension reforms are pretty mild.
"It seems to me your argument doesn't have much weight."
Janus v. AFSCME could end mandatory union dues payment. Counter-intuitively, it might strengthen the labor movement.
The social worker at the heart of Janus v. AFSCME explains why no public employee should be forced to pay union dues.
Exclusive city-mandated monopolies lead to sky-high prices and crappy service. Who could have predicted it?
Union influence (and the pursuit of deep pockets) temporarily overruled economic literacy and common sense.
Court-ordered program provides slave labor to private companies says new ACLU of Oklahoma lawsuit.
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
California lawmakers kept themselves busy.
Fighting for a piece of the action
"Project labor agreements" requiring union contracts on most government work are spreading in California.
Miami-Dade County spent more than $9 million over the past three years so county workers could do 300,000 hours of work for the benefit of public sector unions.
The NLRB's "arbitrary and capricious" decision-making no longer represents the interests of the public. It's been politicized to the point of no return.
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