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Alexa Kissinger is a student at Harvard Law School.

February 9, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

President Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, Andrew Puzder, has been scheduled for a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on February 16. This is the fourth time the hearing has been scheduled after delays which, according to The Hill, gave Puzder more time to separate himself from CKE, which owns the Carl’s […]

January 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

Yesterday, an UberEats courier in Tampa, Florida filed a class action lawsuit against Uber’s food delivery service, alleging the service erroneously classified its couriers as independent contractors. According to The Verge, the suit demands couriers be granted benefits typically afforded to full-time employees, and damages equal to unpaid back wages. Although the lawsuit has not […]

January 12, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

The New York Times’s “Live Briefing” is tracking Day 3 of the Trump Administration’s Cabinet confirmation hearings. Today, General James Mattis, nominee for defense secretary, Rep. Mike Pompeo, nominee for CIA director, and Dr. Ben Carson, nominee for housing and urban development secretary will testify. According to Business Insider, Amazon announced today that it would […]

January 3, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

Law360 published a list of employment cases to watch in 2017. The upcoming attractions include the ongoing debate over class action waivers, the NLRB’s decision regarding joint employer liability in Browning-Ferris, whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act bars employers from discriminating against an employee because of his or her sexual orientation, and more. The article […]

December 1, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

Yesterday the Seventh Circuit heard oral argument in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College which poses the question of whether Title VII prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. Earlier this summer, a panel of three Seventh Circuit judges upheld the lower court’s decision finding that that Hively failed to state a claim under Title […]

November 17, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

The Wall Street Journal covered the national movement being waged against Walmart in China. Disgruntled workers, who complain of low wages and a new scheduling system that has left them poorer and exhausted, are protesting across the country. Bypassing official unions controlled by the Communist Party, the workers are using social media to coordinate their […]

Picking the New Secretary of Labor: A Backgrounder on Victoria Lipnic

Nov 14, 2016 Alexa Kissinger

This post is part of a series on the candidates we understand to be under consideration for Secretary of Labor. Victoria Lipnic, now in her second term as an EEOC Commissioner, was one of the 15 recess appointments President Obama made in the spring of 2010. Her reappointment to the Commission was unanimously confirmed by […]

November 3, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

Today, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) strike enters its third day, and Philadelphia subway, trolley and bus services remain halted. According to The Wall Street Journal, more than 4,700 transit workers have been off the job since early Tuesday when they walked out over issues including wages, pension benefits, and health insurance coverage. On Tuesday, […]

October 20, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

The union representing more than 5,000 professors and coaches from 14 Pennsylvania state colleges and universities went on strike yesterday. The walkout is, according to the New York Times, a rare escalation in higher education that reflects increasingly widespread tensions between administrators and their faculties. Negotiations broke down around issues in including healthcare and the […]

October 6, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexa Kissinger

According to The Crimson, hundreds of Harvard University dining service workers and supporters picketed on campus yesterday in the first walk out Harvard has seen since 1983. Negotiations, which are continuing during the strike, have failed over the dining workers’ demands for a minimum salary of $35,000 for those who wish to work the whole […]

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Law. Workers. Organizing.

OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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Picking the New Secretary of Labor: A Backgrounder on Victoria Lipnic

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