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Hannah Belitz is a student at Harvard Law School.

July 30, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

Presidential candidates are vying for the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, the New York Times reports. On Wednesday, Mike Huckabee, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley spoke before the AFL-CIO’s executive council, and Hillary Clinton and Jim Webb are scheduled to speak today. O’Malley acknowledged that he is unlikely to win the federation’s endorsement, but said that he would […]

July 19, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

Employment continues to rise in California. The Los Angeles Times reports that employers added 22,900 nonfarm payroll positions in June, bringing the state’s unemployment rate to 6.3%. Nationally, the unemployment rate stands at 5.3%. Although California’s housing shortage and high housing prices are outpacing income growth — which could slow down the economy — the outlook remains positive. According to Mark Schniepp, […]

July 16, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

More news on Uber from the Los Angeles Times. Yesterday, the chief administrative judge of the California Public Utilities Commission suggested that Uber be suspended in California and fined $7.3 million. For months, Uber has failed to comply with state regulations meant to ensure that drivers fairly provide rides to all passengers. The 2013 California law that […]

July 2, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

Los Angeles is set to ease the minimum wage requirements for some nonprofits, according to the Los Angeles Times. On Tuesday, the City Council agreed that nonprofits that hire and train disadvantaged workers, such as former inmates and the homeless, will not be required to pay them L.A.’s new minimum wage for the first year and a half […]

June 21, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

The Los Angeles Times reports that California added 54,200 new jobs in May. The state’s unemployment rate also raised to 6.4%. This is just above April’s rate of 6.3%, but down from last year’s rate of 7.6% and substantially higher than the national unemployment rate of 5.5%. Economists see this as encouraging because more workers entered the […]

June 18, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

The California Labor Commissioner’s decision that an Uber driver is an employee continues to attract widespread media attention, including in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. The Treasury Department has created a new program that will permit certain pension plans to scale back retirees’ benefits if reductions are the only way to keep the pension […]

June 4, 2015
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced that it will shut down its work program for prisoners. The New York Times reports that the program, which paid counties to take in state inmates in exchange for free labor (and shortened sentences for the prisoners) is slated to end on August 1. As critics have noted, prison labor isn’t “free,” […]

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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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