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News & Commentary June 19, 2023
https://onlabor.org/june-19-2023/
By Morgan Sperry
Morgan Sperry is a student at Harvard Law School and also serves as OnLabor's Social Media Director.
In today’s News and Commentary, Juneteenth offers an opportunity to reflect upon how labor and employment law should be reformed to address systemic racism, and President Biden is rallying with labor.
Today is Juneteenth, a federal holiday to celebrate June 19, 1865—the day that news of the end of the Civil War reached Galveston, Texas, and the Emancipation Proclamation was finally enforced nationwide. Today offers an important opportunity to reflect upon how systemic racism has since been baked into today’s labor and employment laws—from disproportionately Black domestic workers’ exclusion from key National Labor Relations Act and Federal Labor Standards Act protections to the tipped subminimum wage. Labor law reform must start with addressing systemic racial oppression.
FULL story at link.