@ryanquinn
Assistant teaching professor of labor and employment law at @nusl.bsky.social. Co-founder, Organization of Workplace Lawyers (OWL). Former union organizer. America’s least-beloved singing cowboy in Salvation Alley String Band. he/him
“A Christian engineer with L.A. County claims his bosses discriminated against him by forcing him to pass by a Pride flag on the way to his office, the latest legal challenge to the.. policy of requiring many government buildings to display the flag throughout June.”
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Legal writers: I've posted to SSRN a short user's guide about how to use the Zotero citation manager and its Word plugin to automatically generate Bluebook citations that are 95%* compliant. The paper explains which fields to use for which type of source, and examples of generated citations.
Silicosis cases from artificial engineered quartz countertops are sickening and killing workers all over the country. But instead of moving to safer substitutes, countertop manufacturers want Congress to exempt them from lawsuits. kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...
Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired.
My latest for @motherjones.com.
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Equal protection and due process are the more obvious arguments, and those arguments should prevail before a non-fascist judiciary, but reading this decision from the EU shows that there are SO MANY PATHS to reaching the clear conclusion that Kansas is acting unconstitutionally.
The logic here—that the EU “right to move” will be hindered by a member state denying a passport gender change—strikes me as a compelling explanation of (one reason) why Kansas revoking licenses was unconstitutional. It burdens the right to travel under US privileges and immunities clause.
oint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development January 07, 2026 Question: Do you agree with the Chair's recommendation to give the bill a favorable report? Favorable: 10 Bruce J. AyersHannah BowenRob ConsalvoDennis C. GallagherRyan M. HamiltonPaul McMurtryAdrianne Pusateri RamosKenneth P. SweezeyMark D. SylviaTommy Vitolo Adverse: 0 Reserve Right: 0 No Action: 1 Donald H. Wong
Why are Massachusetts Democrats advancing a right-wing bill filed by Republicans to create a subminimum wage for teenagers?
#mapoli
malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2...
Other parties who object to the appropriateness of ballot questions sue the Attorney General for approving the question and the SJC has jurisdiction to consider the question. Here, it would look bad for the legislature to do so, and would only strengthen the arguments of those seeking to reform it.
This seems like the key to understanding why the Senate would seek an advisory opinion rather than suing the AG: “su[ing] to block a ballot question from advancing…could give ballot question proponents more ammunition to paint Beacon Hill as an opaque fiefdom in need of outside reform.”
NEW: Here is my simple idea, folks. Breaking the #Massachusetts Public Records Law should not be de facto legal!
The state already has an office that’s supposed to hold law-breaking officials accountable—it should be empowered to actually carry out this mission!
#mapoli
I am against oaths for public employees as a general rule, but deporting people with suspicious politics to Connecticut seems like sound policy.
read Marx
For contentious records, like those he has been seeking from District Attorney Sullivan’s office, it takes actual litigation, with all the costs associated. Attorneys' fee shifting doesn't go far enough; if we want a transparent, accountable government, prevailing requesters should receive bounties.
Saw this piece after reading the SJC case this morning: massdump.ghost.io/breaking-the... . @andrewqmr.bsky.social is absolutely right about the problems of enforcement. You generally need either the AG to act or a credible threat of litigation to get even relatively innocuous public records in MA.
We need an AFL-CIO Article XX hearing on this.
Respectfully, this is a good idea and Massachusetts is asserting jurisdiction over Michigan nursing now.
(to be perfectly clear, I am not affiliated with either of these unions)
The ruling class is in a permanent tax revolt, but not because its members fear higher taxes. They successfully evade taxes set at any level. What worries them is the proliferation of public goods, which tends to enhance the independence of the working classes.
Justice Georges wrote for a unanimous court that charter schools are unambiguously within the definition of covered entities as "any authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose." M.G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth. Slip op. at 8.
Great decision from the MA Supreme Judicial Court today in Attorney General v. Mystic Valley Reg'l Charter School holding that charter schools are subject to the Massachusetts public records law, M.G.L. c. 66, § 10, and must therefore respond to public records requests. www.mass.gov/doc/attorney...
“Shoot low, sheriff: she’s riding a Shetland”
I had thought so
[Rockwell freedom of speech guy] "I think the town should do something about raccoons acting strangely during the daytime."
Photograph of police report in newspaper saying "Saturday, Feb. 21 at 3:44 p.m. -- Caller reported seeing a seemingly sick raccoon on the back deck of a building in the area of Grapevine Road, saying it was acting strange and sluggish and had not moved when shooed. The caller said the animal had remained in place for about half an hour by the time of the call. The Animal Control Officer was notified and said that the raccoon should move on its own eventually."
My favorite recent entry in this genre (same town).
Some really great perspectives on labor and the U.S. constitution in @lpeblog.bsky.social this morning lpeproject.org/blog/four-pe...
'If generative AI is shaped by power, politics and principle, then education cannot treat it as neutral infrastructure. It is not simply a tool that reflects human bias. It is a technology aligned to particular visions of the future.' 3/3
bsky.app/profile/will... @williamlidc.bsky.social proved me wrong
the people yearn for woke 2
When people say that technologies embody ideologies or power relationships, this is what they mean. ChatGPT seems like an incredibly useful tool for careless people who want to use it only to "smash[] up things and creatures and then retreat[] back into their money..." as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it.
This is a good correction. You have to actually work to be a scab.