Prof. Charlotte Garden Interviewed in Minnesota Reformer About What Overturning Chevron Could Mean for Workers

Professor Charlotte Garden was interviewed for the Minnesota Reformer about how the overturning of the Chevron deference could affect workers. Labor experts fear such a break from precedent would hurt workers by hobbling the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and other executive agencies’ ability to enforce important rules regulating workplaces. According to Professor Garden, with more conservative federal courts over the past 40 years and the limited expertise of judges when it comes to complex labor issues, overturning Chevron will likely be worse for workers. “If you think about the backgrounds of federal judges, relatively few of them have much experience with labor unions or even low-paid jobs,” Garden said. “On balance, getting rid of Chevron deference will be worse for workers … even though we’ll probably be able to point to some examples where it’s been good.”