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February 2, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

In the wake of yesterday’s United Steelworkers walkout at nine refineries, oil companies have said “contingency plans to use nonunion labor” will keep the striking refineries running, reports The Wall Street Journal. The walkout could put time and financial strains on skeleton crews, which would have to work long shifts, and on oil companies that have to pay out […]

January 19, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez penned an editorial about the role of labor unions in the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Calling the holiday “the other Labor Day,” Perez detailed the strong ties between Dr. King’s actions and the labor movement, highlighting that “[m]any people are […]

January 5, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The New York Times reports that hourly employees across New York City are hoping to see their protests for better hours and wages bear fruit in 2015. Retail stores, community colleges, and even nonprofit agencies are raising wages. After five years of decline in the city’s median family income, a recent study by the Fiscal […]

December 22, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

According to a Gallup poll released Monday, Americans are showing the most optimism about the availability of quality jobs than at any time since the Great Recession began in 2008. About 36% of respondents said this was a good time to find a quality job, the survey found. Although respondents said they have a more upbeat […]

December 8, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The Los Angeles Times ran an editorial by Harold Meyerson about the “reinvention” of American labor unions. Meyerson says that recent labor union collective action has been largely successful, but this success has not generated new dues-paying union members. Unions have recently begun investing major resources in “organizing drives more likely to yield new laws than new […]

West African Workers Respond to Ebola

Dec 5, 2014 Emily Cusick

The threat of the Ebola virus remains at large in Western Africa, and the disease is impacting healthcare workers in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. In early November, hundreds of health workers involved in treating Ebola patients went on strike at a clinic in Sierra Leone. The clinic staff protested the government’s failure to pay […]

November 24, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

Over the weekend, President Obama defended the legal reasoning behind his immigration executive action, arguing that he has been “very restrained” in his use of executive authority. President Obama’s interview aired Sunday on the ABC News program “This Week,” where he said that both Democratic and Republican presidents had previously taken similar executive actions. “The fact […]

November 16, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The Wall Street Journal reports that the International Franchise Association is preparing a “major public campaign” to fight a recent National Labor Relations Board determination that could hold them responsible for the labor practices of their franchisees. The trade organization is seeking lobbyists and public relations firms to craft a campaign to fight the NLRB’s legal […]

November 10, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas has outlawed the West Bank’s largest labor union and arrested its top two union officials. An announcement by Abbas’ office followed a series of strikes demanding more benefits, claiming that the strikes were illegal and “harmed the public interest.” Moayad Amer, an official of the 40,000-member union, said the group is trying […]

American Labor Unions Respond to Ebola

Nov 4, 2014 Emily Cusick

After two American nurses contracted the Ebola virus while caring for an infected patient in early October, the 185,000-member National Nurses United (NNU) union decided to take a stand. At a rally in Oakland, California, NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said in a speech, “We’ve been lied to in terms of the preparation in the hospitals. […]

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OnLabor

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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American Labor Unions Respond to Ebola