Report aims to reform American labor laws
Sharon Block, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program, and Benjamin Sachs, the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School (HLS) are calling for an overhaul of American labor law. The Gazette sat down with Block and Sachs to talk about their report “Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Democracy and Economy,” which was released today. Q&A Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs GAZETTE: Your report calls for a reimagining of American labor law. What’s wrong with what we currently have and why do we need a clean-slate approach? BLOCK: The simplest way to describe it is that American labor law doesn’t give workers sufficient tools to build the kind of power that can countervail the concentration of corporate power in both our economy and democracy. SACHS: The system we have is so fundamentally broken that tweaking it or amending it is no longer a sufficient response. We need a...