The question is: Who is the client? Many ethical decisions attorneys must make emanate from this basic question. Thus, for those employment lawyers who represent, interact with, or sue unions or corporations, it is important to understand who the client is for different purposes such as...

Professor Levinson proposes a cohesive interpretation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) designed to protect employees’ fundamental right to privacy in their electronic communications. The difficulty of new technology outpacing the law’s ability to protect employees’...

Scholars generally agree that the law in the United States fails to adequately protect employees from technological monitoring by their employers. And groups as diverse as the ACLU and a coalition of multi-national businesses are calling for legislation to address privacy concerns stemming from...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has posited that mere presence of a union agent near a polling place is objectionable conduct. The National Labor Relations Board ("Board") should take the first opportunity to clarify that mere presence of a union organizer in the...

This is the first legal article, to the author’s knowledge, to apply social movement theory to the foundation of worker cooperatives in the United States. It also begins a series of articles with three goals. First, the application of social movement theory to worker cooperatives should...

Union worker-owned cooperatives (union co-ops) offer a means to combat growing income and wealth inequality, create jobs, and recirculate money in the communities in which they are located. This article contributes to the academic literature about cooperative economics, worker ownership, and...

Conservative organizations such as the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are promoting a national campaign encouraging municipal entities, such as counties and cities, to pass right-to-work ordinances. The litigation concerning these ordinances is being...

The global Covid pandemic and the Third Reconstruction and renewed labor activism within the U.S. challenge us to find more humane, sustainable, and egalitarian ways of living and working. Those in the labor movement and the cooperative movement, who have been working to build union...

Across the country, communities are establishing food cooperatives, or community groceries, as part of the solution to combating rising income inequality and food deserts. This article explains the challenges of income and wealth inequality and food deserts and how a community grocery can help...

“Geospatial data” is a term familiar to most geographers, but much less familiar to most attorneys, employment law scholars, and workers’ rights activists. In this article, we explain what geospatial data is and provides examples of the types of geospatial technology being used by...