Beyond the race to the bottom: Reforming labor law preemption to allow state experimentation

Charlotte Garden

doi:10.1017/9781108610070.008

Beyond the race to the bottom: Reforming labor law preemption to allow state experimentation

Charlotte Garden

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Abstract

Work has changed since the National Labor Relations Act became law more than eighty years ago. But as Cynthia Estlund’s chapter in this volume discusses, the NLRA has proven mostly impervious to amendment, with the significant exceptions of 1947‘s Taft-Hartley Act and 1959‘s Landrum-Griffin Act. The contrast with the public sector could not be sharper: where the NLRA has been stable, states have changed the laws governing concerted activity and collective bargaining by public employees relatively frequently. Likewise, an increasing list of states have raised the minimum wage and implemented other employment protections for both private- and public-sector workers, including paid sick days, predictable scheduling, and more.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	46-55
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108610070
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610070.008
State	Published - Jan 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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