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Jon Weinberg is a student at Harvard Law School.

August 18, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

This past weekend’s New York Times piece on working conditions at Amazon continues to generate news. CNET has the reaction from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, while The Upshot compares Amazon’s labor situation to that faced by Walmart before they instituted reforms. Writing in The Washington Post, Lydia DePillis explores whether the recent success of the Fight for $15 movement will lead […]

N.L.R.B. Declines Jurisdiction in Northwestern Football Case

Aug 18, 2015 Jon Weinberg

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board declined jurisdiction in a case involving scholarship football players at Northwestern University. The complete decision can be found here. The Board did not address whether scholarship college athletes are statutory employees under the National Labor Relations Act. Instead, the Board dismissed the representation petition by the College Athletes Players […]

August 4, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

Six of the 400 Uber drivers who previously agreed to testify on Uber’s behalf in the forthcoming California federal classification suit have changed their minds, and have submitted new court declarations saying Uber misled them about the difference between employees and contractors. Re/Code notes that the drivers spoke with attorneys representing plaintiffs in the suit, and […]

July 26, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

According to The New York Times, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that contract attorneys retained by the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom may be owed overtime for performing nonlegal work. The court suggested that “contract lawyers could be eligible under federal labor law for overtime after working 40 hours […]

Gig News: LA Times Declares 2016 Presidential Race "First Uber Election"

Jul 22, 2015 Jon Weinberg

Today The Los Angeles Times published a story on the gig economy and the 2016 presidential election, noting attempts by Republican candidates to rally behind gig economy firms “as prime examples of free-market entrepreneurship and workplace deregulation” while Democrats struggle to “avoid appearing resistant to the popular new ventures while highlighting their potential negative effect […]

July 21, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

According to The Wall Street Journal, New York is poised to raise the state minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour. Sources say a state wage board will recommend the raise tomorrow, and the state labor commissioner will approve the recommendation. It remains to be announced how the wage board will define fast […]

Gig News: Presidential Candidates Continue to Take and Talk Uber

Jul 16, 2015 Jon Weinberg

A day after a California administrative judge recommended that that Uber be fined $7.3 million and be suspended in the state, widespread coverage of the politicization of the gig economy continues. The New York Times reports that Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush personally hailed and took an Uber in San Francisco this morning to visit […]

Gig News: Presidential Candidates Debate Status of Gig Economy Workers

Jul 14, 2015 Jon Weinberg

The status of gig economy workers has become a presidential election issue. CNET reports that, in a major economic policy speech Monday, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton noted questions raised by the rise of the gig economy: “Many Americans are making extra money renting out a small room, designing websites, selling products they design themselves at […]

July 6, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

The Wall Street Journal reports that Southwest Airlines has reached a tentative agreement with the Transport Workers Union local representing 12,000 of its flight attendants. The deal “would run through May 2019 and provide wage increases, bonus opportunities and work-rule adjustments.” Negotiations have been difficult and have lasted over two years. According to The New […]

Gig News: Uber Executives Arrested in France

Jun 29, 2015 Jon Weinberg

TechCrunch reports that two Uber executives have been arrested in France for running illegal taxi operations and concealing digital documents. The arrests appear unrelated to last week’s violent anti-Uber protests by French taxi drivers. Taxi drivers see the new lower-priced UberPOP service, akin to UberX in the United States, as unfair competition. UberPOP drivers, unlike French taxi […]

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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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August 18, 2015

N.L.R.B. Declines Jurisdiction in Northwestern Football Case

August 4, 2015

July 26, 2015

Gig News: LA Times Declares 2016 Presidential Race "First Uber Election"

July 21, 2015

Gig News: Presidential Candidates Continue to Take and Talk Uber

Gig News: Presidential Candidates Debate Status of Gig Economy Workers

July 6, 2015

Gig News: Uber Executives Arrested in France