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Vail Kohnert-Yount is a student at Harvard Law School.

October 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Accounting giant Ernst & Young is under fire for a seminar it held for women executives at the height of the #MeToo movement in June 2018. A 55-page presentation used during the day-and-a-half training on women’s “leadership and empowerment” was leaked to the Huffington Post, which revealed the curriculum was full of sexist stereotypes. One […]

October 8, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in three cases that turn on whether Title VII’s protections against sex discrimination extend to anti-LGBTQ discrimination, as Lolita reported yesterday. Aimee Stephens, Gerald Bostock, and the family of Donald Zarda are the plaintiffs in the first case involving gay rights since Justice Kennedy’s retirement, after writing […]

September 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

As the UAW strike enters its second week, General Motors announced yesterday that more than 1,200 U.S. and Canadian workers in the U.S. and Canada would be furloughed. Meanwhile, the Texas Observer reported on autoworkers from GM’s immensely profitable Arlington plant who have joined the largest strike against a U.S. business since 2007. Although Texas […]

September 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

More than 1,200 students at 17 universities have signed a pledge not to take jobs with Palantir, a big data analytics company, until it drops its software development contracts with ICE. Under the name #NoTechForICE, the campaign is modeled on similar efforts from the 1960s, when students targeted recruiters for Dow Chemical to protest the […]

September 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Amazon’s nationwide delivery network is made up of hundreds of small companies that exert tremendous pressure on drivers to deliver hundreds of packages, one almost every two minutes, for a flat rate each eight-hour shift. Buzzfeed investigated the resulting “chaos, exploitation, and danger” from Amazon’s seemingly single-minded focus on getting packages to customers on time. […]

September 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Leif Olson, a Department of Labor official appointed by the Trump administration last month, resigned after a Facebook post he wrote was made public. Four hours after Bloomberg Law requested comment from the White House and DOL about a 2016 post in which Olson referenced anti-Semitic stereotypes, the department said he had resigned. Olson said […]

August 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Canvassers at the Fund for the Public Interest, a fundraising group affiliated with progressive organizations including the ACLU, Human Rights Campaign, Sierra Club, and Planned Parenthood, have accused management of interfering with their attempt to unionize. The Huffington Post reports that the Fund closed a North Carolina office less than a month after workers there announced […]

July 30, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

As the hottest month of the summer approaches, Texas workers are dying on the job at alarming rates. Every year since 2009, Texas has registered more deaths on the job than any other state. In 2017, a worker in Texas died at work every 16 hours, exceeding the number of murders in Houston, Dallas, Fort […]

July 16, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Amazon warehouse workers in Minnesota, Germany, and beyond went on strike yesterday through today⁠—coinciding with Amazon’s fifth annual Prime Day⁠—to protest low wages and high pressure working conditions, as well as the company’s contracts with ICE. Striking workers are asking customers not to cross the virtual picket line, as the shopping event has prompted “rising […]

July 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Yesterday, ProPublica broke the story that up to 9,500 U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents are members of a secret Facebook group in which agents post racist and sexist content, raising questions about public employees’ freedom of speech off the job. CBP employs 20,000 total agents in the United States who are subject to CBP’s […]

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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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