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Deanna Krokos is a student at Harvard Law School

April 26, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

Today, the New York Times reported on the state of unemployment payments in Florida, calling the state a “terrible” place to lose a job. Florida is one of the slowest states in the nation to handle unemployment claims, and seems to have been unprepared to handle the economic impact of COVID-19. As workers lost their […]

April 12, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

Last week, Virginia became a “standout in the South” by enacting legislation to protect LGBTQ workers from discrimination in the workplace. The “Virginia Values Act” allows LGBTQ workers to sue for damages if they are mistreated or fired on the basis of their sexual orientation, and BloombergLaw reports that it also eliminates the state’s cap […]

March 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday to provide aid in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would provide for certain expansions of paid leave, food assistance, Medicaid coverage and unemployment insurance for people affected by the virus, largely through (1) tax incentives to employers and (2) funding to states administering […]

March 1, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

The novel coronavirus, or covid-19, stands to pose broad and varied challenges for the global economy. This week, several stories focused on the impact an outbreak can have on workers. The Atlantic focused on the way the “culture of the American workplace puts everyone’s health at unnecessary risk” if the virus has a serious spread […]

February 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

The American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, the two largest teachers unions in the country, have joined with Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund to call for ending or radically changing unannounced “active shooter drills” in schools. The groups released a white paper last week suggesting that future drills suggest that the […]

February 2, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

In Skokie, Illinois, the first group of Instacart employees have unionized, voting 10-4 in favor of unionizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546. Unlike the majority of Instacart workers, some 12,000 “shoppers” are legally classified as employees and primarily pack groceries in popular grocery stores on the delivery app. With that legal […]

January 26, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

This week, the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School released their Clean Slate for Worker Power, a report re-imagining, rebalancing, and re-vitalizing labor law. The report spans more than 100 pages, outlining a robust and ambitious plan of detailed reforms including sectoral bargaining, works councils, workplace democracy, and robust collective action rights “all […]

January 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). The act would make it easier for older workers suing under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to prove their case in court, instructing courts to find a violation where the age was a motivating factor […]

January 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

Workers at Delta Airlines are suing Lands’ End over health concerns they attribute to negligently made uniforms. They filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that the uniforms were tested and showed “several heavy metals and chemicals present above safe levels, including mercury, formaldehyde, fluorine and chromium,” that caused migraines, rashes, and trouble breathing for some […]

December 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

In 2020, a number of unions representing airline workers will bargain with near every major airline. United, American, Southwest, and Delta will be brought to the bargaining table to discuss new contracts for pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and other workers. On Friday, U.S. Steel announced plans to “idle” significant operations at a mill near Detroit, […]

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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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