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Annie Hollister is an Honors Attorney at the U.S. Department of Labor and an alumna of Harvard Law School.

On Jorts: The Labor Cat

Feb 8, 2022 Annie Hollister

It’s only February, but 2022 has already blessed the labor movement with a new icon. If you are active on labor Twitter, you probably already know who we’re talking about. Yes, it’s time to talk about Jorts. For OnLabor readers who don’t dwell on the Internet, here is some background: Jorts is a cat who […]

Today is the W.P.A.’s 85th Birthday. Let’s Bring it Back for a Food Industry in Crisis

May 6, 2020 Annie Hollister

The Covid pandemic has had an enormous impact on America’s food systems. Workers in the food service industry—servers and bartenders, chefs and dishwashers—account for an estimated sixty percent of jobs lost since the pandemic reached the United States. Of the roughly one million food businesses operating in the country before the pandemic caused wide-spread closures, […]

Litigating ICE’s “Voluntary Work Program”

Apr 10, 2020 Annie Hollister

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers are the nation’s largest employer of immigrant labor. According to the New York Times at least 60,000 immigrants every year work in detention centers through federally-authorized “Voluntary Work Programs.” In this capacity, immigrants detained across the United States prepare meals for, clean, and maintain the facilities in […]

March 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

France’s high court has ruled that Uber drivers are properly classified as employees. The court’s opinion described drivers’ relationship to the ride-share platform as one of “subordination,” because drivers do not build their own clientele or set prices. The decision will have significant financial implications for Uber’s operations in France, as the current model of […]

February 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Last month, the WNBA signed a new tentative bargaining agreement with the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. As Teen Vogue explains, proponents hope that the agreement will improve the lives of players, who under the current agreement are often forced to take second jobs in the off-season. Bargaining committee member Layshia Clarendon said that she […]

February 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Child care workers in California have called for a union election. The election is part of a sixteen-year organizing effort by Child Care Providers United, a joint initiative from the SEIU and AFSCME. Workers who provide child care services to California families on government subsidy were granted collective bargaining rights via state legislation introduced late […]

January 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

OnLabor’s own Ben Sachs and Sharon Block have launched their recommendations for building a new labor law. As Sharon and Ben explain in a Newsweek op-ed, the recommendations are the culmination of the Clean Slate for Worker Power project, a multi-year collaboration of academics, activists, advocates, labor leaders and practitioners. The Clean Slate report proposes […]

January 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

California’s controversial AB5 law came into effect on January 1, to fierce opposition from industry. The law codifies the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex test for classifying workers as employees, rather than independent contractors. Last week, Uber and Postmates filed a suit to challenge the law, arguing that the state legislature’s decision to exempt certain industries […]

December 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Presidential candidates are planning to boycott the upcoming Democratic debate if an ongoing labor dispute at Loyola Marymount University is not resolved. Food service workers at Loyola Marymount, which is scheduled to host the debate, have been in negotiations over a new union contract since last December. The workers are represented by Unite HERE Local […]

December 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

After months of bipartisan haggling, the House has passed one of the largest military-spending bills in history. Included in the $738 billion-dollar package are a 3% pay increase for military servicemembers and twelve weeks of parental leave for all federal employees. Democratic lawmakers have called the bill’s family leave measure a victory for workers. The […]

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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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On Jorts: The Labor Cat

Today is the W.P.A.’s 85th Birthday. Let’s Bring it Back for a Food Industry in Crisis

Litigating ICE’s “Voluntary Work Program”

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