Liz Ford
@lizford.bsky.social
Law prof @ Seattle University, Workers' Rights Clinic. Write about wage theft and worker centers.
Don't be fooled. This is bad. www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...
Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID)
Resolve wage and leave issues quickly through WHD's self-audit program without litigation.
www.dol.gov
July 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Don't be fooled. This is bad. www.dol.gov/agencies/whd...
With the closing of the Pineville W.V. office of the Mine Safety Health Administration, it's a good day to listen to Ghost of West Virginia. 22:43: "don't tell me you couldn't foresee what everyone reckons was a matter of time." www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Qq...
Union, God and Country: A Livestream Performance of Ghosts of West Virginia + Q&A
YouTube video by Steve Earle
www.youtube.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
With the closing of the Pineville W.V. office of the Mine Safety Health Administration, it's a good day to listen to Ghost of West Virginia. 22:43: "don't tell me you couldn't foresee what everyone reckons was a matter of time." www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Qq...
According to a new DOL WHD policy, it will now be brokering interest free loans from employees to their employers.
This means that every time an employer gets caught by WHD committing wage theft, the employer makes money.
I need a Bat Signal for @warren.senate.gov.
www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...
This means that every time an employer gets caught by WHD committing wage theft, the employer makes money.
I need a Bat Signal for @warren.senate.gov.
www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...
www.dol.gov
July 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
According to a new DOL WHD policy, it will now be brokering interest free loans from employees to their employers.
This means that every time an employer gets caught by WHD committing wage theft, the employer makes money.
I need a Bat Signal for @warren.senate.gov.
www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...
This means that every time an employer gets caught by WHD committing wage theft, the employer makes money.
I need a Bat Signal for @warren.senate.gov.
www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...
Thank you @cfrosado.bsky.social and @jotwell.bsky.social for this wonderful review and mostly for engaging with my ideas. It's such a thrill to see my name next to César's and under JOTWEL's. Wow!
Jotwell Worklaw:
Cesar Rosado Marzán, Lawyers Can Build Worker Power, JOTWELL (June 25, 2025) (reviewing Elizabeth Ford, Alt-Legal Services: Re-Visioning Lawyers’ Role In The Fight For Worker Power, 46 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 1 (2025)), worklaw.jotwell.com/lawyers-can-....
Cesar Rosado Marzán, Lawyers Can Build Worker Power, JOTWELL (June 25, 2025) (reviewing Elizabeth Ford, Alt-Legal Services: Re-Visioning Lawyers’ Role In The Fight For Worker Power, 46 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 1 (2025)), worklaw.jotwell.com/lawyers-can-....
June 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Thank you @cfrosado.bsky.social and @jotwell.bsky.social for this wonderful review and mostly for engaging with my ideas. It's such a thrill to see my name next to César's and under JOTWEL's. Wow!
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For the “unions fighting for democracy” file
BREAKING: The NewsGuild and @aclusocal.bsky.social are suing DHS for unconstitutional attacks on journalists in LA.
This state-sanctioned violence is meant to stop coverage from reaching the public. We won’t let them silence the workers behind our free press.
newsguild.org/release-aclu...
This state-sanctioned violence is meant to stop coverage from reaching the public. We won’t let them silence the workers behind our free press.
newsguild.org/release-aclu...
RELEASE: ACLU, LA Press Club, NewsGuild sue DHS for unconstitutional attacks on reporters and protestors | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
NewsGuild joins federal lawsuit against DHS, alleging unconstitutional attacks on journalists exercising their First Amendment rights.
newsguild.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
For the “unions fighting for democracy” file
In good news, here are the good folks of Astoria, Oregon, population 10,000., saying “no kings!”
June 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In good news, here are the good folks of Astoria, Oregon, population 10,000., saying “no kings!”
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About 1 in 5 veterans go to bed hungry each day. The money used for Trump’s birthday parade could provide SNAP food assistance for nearly 18,000 veterans for an entire year.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
About 1 in 5 veterans go to bed hungry each day. The money used for Trump’s birthday parade could provide SNAP food assistance for nearly 18,000 veterans for an entire year.
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Congratulations to the 2025 Mary Ellen Krug Award recipients! Calum Bryant, Teresa Dennerlein & Ates Serifsoy, three outstanding labor & employment law students from the U. of Washington Law School and Seattle U. Law School, were honored at the 2025 Pacific Coast L&E Law Conference #employmentlaw
April 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 Mary Ellen Krug Award recipients! Calum Bryant, Teresa Dennerlein & Ates Serifsoy, three outstanding labor & employment law students from the U. of Washington Law School and Seattle U. Law School, were honored at the 2025 Pacific Coast L&E Law Conference #employmentlaw
It's bad enough that Trump just pretended to prohibit collective bargaining in almost all federal departments, but check out who's totally exempted:
March 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's bad enough that Trump just pretended to prohibit collective bargaining in almost all federal departments, but check out who's totally exempted:
I am so excited to say that my article “Alt Legal Services: Revisioning Lawyers' Role in the Fight for Worker Power” was just came out in BJELL! www.law.berkeley.edu/library/ir/b...
Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
www.law.berkeley.edu
March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am so excited to say that my article “Alt Legal Services: Revisioning Lawyers' Role in the Fight for Worker Power” was just came out in BJELL! www.law.berkeley.edu/library/ir/b...
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Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.
February 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here's what the entire federal workforce actually looks like. It's mostly doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in VA hospitals, the military, and then everything else.
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Lawsuit filed today against Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to enjoin him from continuing to give Musk and his minions personal and financial information about millions of Americans. Complaint at www.courtlistener.com/docket/69607.... 1/
Complaint – #1 in ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS v. BESSENT (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00313) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-11453107) filed by ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION AFL-CIO, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERN...
www.courtlistener.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Lawsuit filed today against Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to enjoin him from continuing to give Musk and his minions personal and financial information about millions of Americans. Complaint at www.courtlistener.com/docket/69607.... 1/
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
I'm loving this thread! I wish I could contribute something more than a promise to share the results of my research on whether there is two tiered regulation of public sector bargaining across the country, one for police departments and one for everyone else. Spoiler alert: the answer is yes.
Adding to this great thread on public sector labor history - still a neglected topic, but lots of great recent work.
January 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm loving this thread! I wish I could contribute something more than a promise to share the results of my research on whether there is two tiered regulation of public sector bargaining across the country, one for police departments and one for everyone else. Spoiler alert: the answer is yes.
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"Meritocracy is a precondition for efficiency" is nonsense, but is being used to mean "we're coming for public-sector collective bargaining & the civil service."
("Any other standard for success inherently has negative externalities" means "I think saying 'externalities' makes me sound smart")
("Any other standard for success inherently has negative externalities" means "I think saying 'externalities' makes me sound smart")
December 3, 2024 at 7:57 PM
"Meritocracy is a precondition for efficiency" is nonsense, but is being used to mean "we're coming for public-sector collective bargaining & the civil service."
("Any other standard for success inherently has negative externalities" means "I think saying 'externalities' makes me sound smart")
("Any other standard for success inherently has negative externalities" means "I think saying 'externalities' makes me sound smart")
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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Grateful to Cornell's wonderful Gali Racabi and Yiran Zhang for organizing and hosting the first annual Worklaw Junior Scholars Workshop. I can't imagine a better way to move through this hard moment than to gather with thoughtful and dedicated scholars in a beautiful place. Thank you!
November 10, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Grateful to Cornell's wonderful Gali Racabi and Yiran Zhang for organizing and hosting the first annual Worklaw Junior Scholars Workshop. I can't imagine a better way to move through this hard moment than to gather with thoughtful and dedicated scholars in a beautiful place. Thank you!
Huge thank you to the organizers of #cosell2024. It was, as usual, wildly inspiring and so fun. And, the feedback was invaluable! The venue in San Diego was a glorious added bonus.
September 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Huge thank you to the organizers of #cosell2024. It was, as usual, wildly inspiring and so fun. And, the feedback was invaluable! The venue in San Diego was a glorious added bonus.
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Hey, does anyone have the briefs in the new Wisconsin Act 10 case, Abbotsford Educ Assn v. WERC?
July 23, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Hey, does anyone have the briefs in the new Wisconsin Act 10 case, Abbotsford Educ Assn v. WERC?
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Today, Brooke Coleman argues that federal judges are increasingly demonstrating a lack of respect for the very self-governing system of which they are a part.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-jud...
lpeproject.org/blog/the-jud...
The Judiciary, Self-Governance, and the Rule of Law
Earlier this year, in an effort to limit judge-shopping, the Judicial Conference adopted a policy requiring judges to be assigned through a district-wide random selection process.
lpeproject.org
July 22, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Today, Brooke Coleman argues that federal judges are increasingly demonstrating a lack of respect for the very self-governing system of which they are a part.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-jud...
lpeproject.org/blog/the-jud...
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I accidentally read this op ed and it brought up something I've been meaning to say for a while:
If you want to understand - REALLY understand - what Project 2025 will do, take a look at Alabama. (Buckle in, this is going to take a few)
www.al.com/politics/202...
If you want to understand - REALLY understand - what Project 2025 will do, take a look at Alabama. (Buckle in, this is going to take a few)
www.al.com/politics/202...
Smith: Project 2025 is better than what we're currently doing
Conservatives putting forth conservative policy ideas isn’t a threat to America. It is a clear and vital challenge to progressive liberalism and the federal bureaucracy.
www.al.com
July 18, 2024 at 11:49 AM
I accidentally read this op ed and it brought up something I've been meaning to say for a while:
If you want to understand - REALLY understand - what Project 2025 will do, take a look at Alabama. (Buckle in, this is going to take a few)
www.al.com/politics/202...
If you want to understand - REALLY understand - what Project 2025 will do, take a look at Alabama. (Buckle in, this is going to take a few)
www.al.com/politics/202...
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"So, read her books and take her trainings, but not to deify her — nothing could be further from her mission. Take them so that you can put into practice the same methods that Jane McAlevey spent a lifetime practicing, modelling, and instilling in others." - Ethan Earle
Remembering Jane McAlevey (1964–2024) - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The ground-breaking labour organizer and internationalist leaves behind a powerful legacy
www.rosalux.de
July 8, 2024 at 6:49 PM
"So, read her books and take her trainings, but not to deify her — nothing could be further from her mission. Take them so that you can put into practice the same methods that Jane McAlevey spent a lifetime practicing, modelling, and instilling in others." - Ethan Earle
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My ode to one of the great ones, Jane McAlevey. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fix-your-u...
Fix your union, fight for journalism, repair the world
RIP Jane Frances McAlevey, 1964-2024.
mattdpearce.substack.com
July 8, 2024 at 11:53 PM
My ode to one of the great ones, Jane McAlevey. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fix-your-u...