Professor of Management, Colorado State University
I teach labor and employment relations at Colorado State University. After earning my Ph.D. and J.D. degrees at the University of Colorado, I taught at Pennsylvania State University where I was a tenured associate professor in the Labor Studies Department until returning to Colorado. In 2007, I was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Labor Law at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. My fields of interest include labor history, workplace collective action, and economic justice. My most recent book is a study of American labor law and how it shaped union formation, published by Praeger in 2015 ("The End of American Labor Unions: The Right-to-Work Movement and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining").
How noncompete clauses clash with US labor laws
Aug 28, 2017 15:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Most Americans with jobs work at-will: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship and vice versa. Either party may terminate the arrangement at any time for a good or bad reason or none at all. In keeping...
Millions more voters legalizing marijuana won't clear up regulatory haze
Oct 28, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Law
Congress continues to resist decriminalizing marijuana even as a popular crusade to legalize its use state by state may soon mean almost a quarter of Americans can smoke up at will, not including the many more who can use...
How labor's decline opened door to billionaire Trump as 'savior' of American workers
Aug 08, 2016 04:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
Out of the economic maelstrom of the last decade, Donald Trump has emerged as the improbable, and self-proclaimed, champion of American workers. And thats despite the fact that Trump has failed to articulate substantive...
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