labor relations
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Sharon Block is a professor of practice at Harvard Law School and a former member of the National Labor Relations Board.
Sharon Block, a professor of practice at Harvard Law School and a former member of the National Labor Relations Board, is optimistic, saying Americans are increasingly seeking a counterweight to excessive corporate power, and a revitalized labor movement is a natural contender.
Last year in Massachusetts, voters approved a measure—initiated by large unions such as the Service Employees International Union and the International Association of Machinists—to give Uber and Lyft drivers the ability to unionize and collectively bargain while maintaining their status as independent contractors, a class of worker excluded from the National Labor Relations Act under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Congress created the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the stock market and the National Labor Relations Board to resolve labor disputes.
From Los Angeles Times
Similar firing rules exist for other independent agencies like the National Labor Relations Board.
From BBC
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