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February 12, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

A continuing labor dispute between members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and shipowners continues to cause delays at West Coast seaports, the New York Times reports. Employees and management offer different explanations for the delays. The union says that the owners are deliberately worsening congestion at the ports to gain advantage at the […]

January 30, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

In continuing news from Ferguson, Missouri, the city’s public safety committee meeting grew tense after a participant accused Jeff Roorda, a police union official, of pushing her. The Los Angeles Times reports that Mr. Roorda, who was wearing a “I am Darren Wilson” bracelet, appeared to bump into the woman and grab her arm. The St. Louis […]

January 29, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

A personal tech post in the New York Times explores the possible extension of “Uberization:” “chop[ping] up a broad array of traditional jobs into discrete tasks that can be assigned to people just when they’re needed, with wages set by a dynamic measurement of supply and demand, and every worker’s performance constantly tracked, reviewed, and subject to the sometimes […]

January 15, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

President Obama will direct federal agencies to give their employees up to six weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child, the New York Times reports. If the President does not receive Congressional approval, he will sign a memorandum mandating federal agencies to provide the paid leave. His senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, said, […]

January 1, 2015
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

Minimum wage increases went into effect in 20 states today, according to the New York Times. The increases range from a few pennies to $1.25 more an hour. Washington state has the highest wage at $9.47. In other states, like Massachusetts, the wage increase is staggered and will reach $11/hour by 2017. The new wage laws […]

December 18, 2014
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

An editorial in the Wall Street Journal discusses this Talking Points Memo regarding police unions’ reactions to the recent national backlash against police brutality. The author argues that the police should refrain from engaging in political controversies. In California, an appeals court has overturned a lower’s court decision finding that exotic dancers were independent contractors and […]

Indiana Supreme Court Upholds Right to Work Law

Dec 9, 2014 Antonia Domingo

Opponents of right to work laws recently suffered setbacks in Indiana. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 brought a lawsuit in February of this year, claiming that Indiana’s right-to-work law violated the state constitution. Lake County judge George Paras agreed, holding on July 17 that the legislation violated Indiana’s constitutional provision that prohibits […]

December 4, 2014
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry has issued a statement in response to the grand jury’s decision not to indict the police office who killed Eric Garner. “From the streets of Ferguson to Times Square in New York, our communities have come together in demonstration to demand a fix to a criminal justice system that treats […]

November 20, 2014
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

The bus drivers who shuttle Facebook employees to and from work voted to join Teamsters Local 853, the New York Times reports. The drivers main concerns are an inadequate hourly pay rate and a split shift schedule. Loop Transportation, the contractor which employs the workers, said it would respect the election results. Unions are beginning […]

Labor Supports the People's Climate March

Nov 12, 2014 Antonia Domingo

Unions and environmentalists are not traditionally thought of as allies. Labor, the story goes, supports job growth in unionized sectors despite the environmental consequences. The environmental movement, in turn, has been deaf to concerns that environmental regulations threaten working people’s jobs. Yet unions and their members turned out in mass for the People’s Climate March, […]

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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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Indiana Supreme Court Upholds Right to Work Law

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Labor Supports the People's Climate March