Ryan Quinn

@ryanquinn.bsky.social

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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

Screenshot of the National Labor Relations Board website with a header saying “The NLRB public website is scheduled to undergo routine maintenance from Friday, July 24, 2026, at 11:00 p.m. ET (8:00 p.m. PT) until Monday, July 27, 2026, at 6:00 a.m. ET. From Friday night at 11:00 p.m. ET through Saturday morning at about 9:00 a.m. ET, E-Filing will not be available. From Saturday through Monday morning, the E-Filing applications (E-Filing, Online Charge and Petition, and My Account Portal) may be periodically unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Jeff Daniels portraying Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin in the miniseries “Gettysburg.” Chamberlin, who in civilian life was a professor of oratory at Bowdoin, is yelling “bayonets!” and preparing the 20th Maine to charge down Little Round Top in a decisive battle on the second day of Gettysburg.
“Borat 2 tonight Queen?” meme, with “court packing” replacing “borat 2.” The text shows a series of text messages sent over the course of several days saying “court packing tonite 👀,” “court packing tonight queen??,” and court packing tonite 👀.”
Three five-quart containers of different grades of automotive oil, arrayed on a grey garage floor.
Nathan Fielder of "Nathan for You," about to explain the plan.
A photo of a red sweatshirt with white text saying “go ahead / call HR.” The sweatshirt has a price tag on it and in the background are other items being sold at an indoor flea market.
A screenshot of an email to "me" reading "Thank you for joining the AAUP" from AAUP Membership Services.
Edited December 29, 2020 tweet from @metalgearobama with screen name "Kafka, Esq." reading: "Reading SCOTUS decisions and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with it." The words "SCOTUS decisions" have been incompetently edited in to cover up text which had previously been in the tweet.
38 The exercise of the right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, however, enshrined in Article 21 TFEU, is likely to be hindered by a Member State’s refusal to recognise a change of gender identity made pursuant to the procedures laid down for that purpose in the Member State in which the Union citizen concerned exercised that right, whether or not that change is linked to a change of family name or first name.
Then, there are intertwined concerns over politics and logistics. Officials are unsure if the Senate would need to hire outside counsel to represent it in court. It’s also not clear if either branch of the Legislature as a body has ever sued to block a ballot question from advancing, and doing so could give ballot question proponents more ammunition to paint Beacon Hill as an opaque fiefdom in need of outside reform.
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Text reading "When the Trump administration went looking last spring for National Endowment for the Humanities grants to cut, it turned to a familiar scourge of professors: ChatGPT."
A wooden shelving unit built onto a black metal gate. The shelf is labeled “Stick Library” in red lettering with images of dog’s paw prints on either side of the text. On the shelves are branches, free for passing dogs to borrow.
A still from "The Godfather Part 2" depicting Hyman Roth's birthday in Havana, in late December, 1958. A cake with a decoration depicting Cuba is about to be cut, symbolizing Roth dividing up his Cuban holdings among various criminals.
A black and white picture of IWW cofounder "Big" Bill Haywood. Haywood is wearing a coat, tie, and vest, and a brimmed hat with a center crease.
“In pursuing so many things all simultaneously, we overloaded our system,” he said. “We have a weird historic case intake, and as well as historic staffing lows. It’s so sort of high volume, low capacity. And so the combination of those two things put us into a situation where we had a serious backlog of cases, and it was taking significantly longer than is typical to process cases.” He acknowledged the NLRB could use more staff, but likened the decisions he has made since taking charge of the agency to that of a family. “There is a reality … like any homeowner knows, or family knows … that you have a certain amount of money, and you can therefore do a certain amount of things, and you can’t always go to Disney World. You know with the resources you have.” “Not that any of this is Disney World,” added Cowen. “It’s our challenge, as the managers of this agency, to be able to maintain operations with the resources we have.”
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The retention bonus payments at issue in this case do not fall within any of the enumerated forms of benefits or compensation that the Legislature has included in "wages"; they are neither vacation or holiday payments, nor are they commissions.6 Indeed, the plaintiff does not contend otherwise. Nonetheless, the plaintiff asks that we deem the retention bonus payments to be "wages" because they are "a pledge or payment of usually monetary remuneration by an employer especially for labor or services."
Put otherwise, they were additional compensation that was contingent, or conditioned, on his continued employment to dates set by Syncsort to which the plaintiff agreed. They were also further conditioned on the plaintiff remaining in good performance standing with no reduction in his regular work schedule. The bonus payments were not made solely in exchange for the plaintiff's labor or services.
George C. Scott as General George S. Patton in the film Patton, calling out to Rommel “You magnificent bastard! I read your book!”
Two screenshots from the Simpsons. In both screenshots, Marge Simpson is surrounded by Chief Wiggum and two other police officers. In the top screenshot, Simpson says "I thought you said the law was powerless." In the bottom screenshot, Wiggum replies "Powerless to help you, not punish you."
Two screens from the Wing. In captions, Amy Gardner, played by Mary-Louise Parker, says “Jimmy Fitzsimmons won the Boston Mayor’s Race by 51 points and believe it or not, did not beat the spread.” Josh Lyman, played by Bradley Whitfield, and C.J. Cregg, played by Allison Janney, react incredulously.
Clip of the Simpsons’ character lawyer Lionel Hutz imagining a “world without lawyers” in which people from all over the world walk together holding hands against a backdrop of a smiling sun and a rainbow.
Text reading: Any member accepting membership in the Industrial Workers of the World, the Working Class Union, the One Big Union, or any other dual organization, or membership in the National Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers or the Ku Klux Klan, or the Communist Party, or Fascist, Nazi or Bund organization, shall be expelled from District 50, United Mine Workers of America, and is permanently de- 42
Text reading: CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1 Name This Organization shall be known as District 50, United Mine Workers of America. It shall be International in scope, and as an organization shall not be committed to or favor any particular religious creed; neither shall affiliation herewith interfere with the religious or political freedom of individual members. ARTICLE 2 Objects First. To unite in one organization, regardless of race, creed, color or national origin, all workers eligible for membership employed in such industries as may be designated and approved by the District Executive Board.
Text reading: NATURALIZATION OF MEMBERS Under this order of business, the presiding officer will inquire, "Are there any members present who de- sire to become citizens of the United States?" If there are those present who wish to do so, their names should be referred to the Committee on Naturalization appointed by each Local Union whose duty it shall be to assist foreign-born members to be- come naturalized and to supply them with information regarding natural- ization laws, and to help them in every way possible to become citizens of the United States.
The stained white cover of a booklet titled “Constitution of District 50, United Mine Workers of America.” There is a circular union logo and it is dated February 23, 1961. There is a union bug on the bottom of the cover indicating it was printed with union labor.
A gaudy, flashing blue text reading “ERISA!” against a backdrop of fireworks.
Disco Stu from The Simpsons points to a chart titled “Disco Record Sales” with a line going up exponentially from years 1973 to 1976. The caption says “if these trends continue, ayyyyyyy”
An old tweet from @Ryan_M_Quinn on August 9, 2023 stating "I taught my last labor law class of the semester, which means I need a new outlet for talking about labor law. Maybe my cats are going to get 4 hours per week of labor law thoughts."
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A 2” pin with a black and white picture of Robert Bork and a red line through his face. Text on the pin says “Block Bork.”
A black bumper sticker with white text on a light pole. The bumper sticker reads “I [red heart symbol] Bretton Woods.”
Screenshot of a Craigslist ad showing a black leather case with a "NASCAR" logo. The title of the ad reads "Dale Earnhardt pocket watch. NOT WORKING!"
A video of a microphone and a computer screen set to a Zoom meeting. The microphone looks like a chrome lollipop, with a circular element on top of a stick. A button is on the stick. A hand presses a button to the side of the microphone. When the switch on the microphone is pressed, Zoom unmutes. When the switch release, Zoom mutes again.
A pinball backglass with the title "Chicago Coin's Bowling League" and a colorful bowling score card in red, blue, and yellow. The glass is framed in a light blue painted frame, and edge lit.
Spray paint can with an image of a blue can followed by an equal sign followed by two identical images of blue cans. Below the equation is the word “coverage” in blue. The equation has an asterisk next to it.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia character Charlie Kelly saying “let’s say you and I go toe-to-toe on rat law and see who comes out the victor”
A 36-year-old pack of cigarettes with a blue line drawing of Michael Dukakis’s face and the text “Campaign 88 Dukakis for President King Size Filters.”
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Screenshot of Department of Labor chart showing an increase from 6 members in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 to 8 members in fiscal year 2024 for the Organization of Workplace Lawyers.
A still of Oscar Isaac as Llewyn Davis from the 2013 Coen Brothers masterpiece “Inside Llewyn Davis.” Davis is holding an orange cat and has a messy speech bubble as if he is speaking the quoted post.
A Keynote slide with the heading "Tipped Employees Introduction" and a January 27, 2023 tweet by Joshua Erlich which reads "employment law is a ceaseless process of finding out your favorite restaurants are all monsters"
Two panels of a brown chalkboard with one panel showing a supply and demand curve and the second panel containing the word “Keynesianism”
A still from the movie “The Holdovers,” in which Paul Giamatti’s character says “adjunct faculty, zero respect and even less pay.”
Picture of Owen Wilson as Eli Cash in the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, with text that says "Everyone knows the first amendment doesn't mean anyone has to listen to you. What Babock & Wilcox presupposes is...maybe it does?"
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A screen capture of Peter Falk as Lieutenant Colombo, sitting in the driver’s seat of a car with his pointer finger to his nose, apparently thinking. A caption says “country music playing in car.”
Map of Boston, Melrose, and Revere. Revere is on the water, and melrose is inland by a town.
Map of the coast line from Boston North to Nahant, a small town surrounded by ocean with a small land bridge to Lynn, Massachusetts.
VUONO, J. At the center of the dispute between the parties is approximately twelve acres of undeveloped registered land on a peninsula known as East Point located in the small North Shore town of Nahant (town).
Still frame of Richard Nixon in his interview with David Frost with caption saying “Well, when a union does it, that means that it is not illegal.” The words “a union” were crudely added on top of the original caption.