In Wake of Rare Pro-Worker Supreme Court Ruling on Mandatory Arbitration, Open Markets Calls on Congress to Restore Strong Private Rights of Action for Workers, Consumers, and Businesses

Open Markets believes that reestablishing the right of workers, consumers, and business to litigate cases on a collective basis is essential for taming the excesses of concentrated corporate power.

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Open Markets Signs on to Letter Opposing NLRB Change in Joint Employer Rule

Today, the Open Markets Institute joined five law professors and one public interest group in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board criticizing a proposed rule that would make it harder for workers to organize and collectively bargain with franchise businesses.

Report Reveals Big Ag's Plans to Use Carbon Markets, and Farmer Data to Tighten Stranglehold on Food System

Claire Kelloway, food program director , and Jason Davidson, senior food and agriculture campaigner at Friends of the Earth, collaborate in this policy brief revealing the reality farmers face in the midst of carbon markets and the presence of Big Ag.

Report | "What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices"

Brian Callaci, an economist at Open Markets Institute, recently published “What Do Franchisees Do? Vertical Restraints as Workplace Fissuring and Labor Discipline Devices”.

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