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January 9, 2015
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The president of UAW Local 42 at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga announced planned meetings with company executives yesterday. Politico reports that this would be the “first time the union has conferred formally with executives” under the auto manufacturer’s work councils. A recent audit revealed that at least 45 percent of plant workers supported Local […]

December 26, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The Boston Globe reports that advocates are hopeful that increased sick leave will increasingly become a national and bipartisan issue. Massachusetts recently passed a ballot that would allow most workers to earn up to five sick days per year. The measure passed by “a stunning margin of nearly 20 percentage points,” and many voters skipped questions […]

November 28, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

According to The New York Times, there are five positive economic trends to be thankful for this year. The price of gasoline, natural gas, fuel oil, and electricity is decreasing; job growth continues to be on the rise (with higher wages hopefully in the horizon); more Americans are quitting jobs voluntarily which reflects their confidence […]

November 14, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

According to The New York Times, Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen has suggested that economists should look not only to data reflecting new jobs but also to the “quit rate” of workers. This rate is the “proportion of workers who quit their jobs in any given month.” A higher quit rate may indicate that workers are confident that […]

October 31, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

According to POLITICO, the Coalition for Crane Operator Safety plans to ask the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to revise its certification requirements for crane operators. OSHA had previously promulgated its Final Rule on Cranes and Derricks in Construction. The Coalition is made up of major construction companies as well as construction unions. It […]

A Backgrounder: The Market Basket Strike

Oct 28, 2014 Julina Guo

Introduction Many New England residents paid close attention to the Market Basket developments this summer. For our readers outside the region, we have provided a summary of the events in this labor struggle. Significantly, the Market Basket saga may hold important lessons for other ongoing campaigns, including the fast food campaign, which Professor Sachs discusses […]

October 17, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The Opinion section of The LA Times posits that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) should be allowed to actively enforce the “hot goods” provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, even if the DOL oversteps its authority in some cases. That provision allows DOL to prohibit an employer from selling or shipping goods out of state if those goods were […]

October 10, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

A clothing factory in the town of Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic, is trying to prove that workers can be paid a living wage without having to work in sweatshop conditions. The workers make clothes for the collegiate-brand Alta Gracia, which is owned by the South Carolina-based Knights Apparel. The company pays its workers more than […]

October 5, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced that it will form a local chapter in Tuscalossa, Alabama to represent Mercedes-Benz’s workers at the Daimler AG assembly plant. About 3,400 full-time workers and 1,000 temporary workers help to build crossovers and sport-utility vehicles at the Tuscalossa plant. UAW plans to ask the company to recognize Local 112 without a […]

October 3, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito plans to introduce a bill to challenge federal immigration detainers in New York City. Detainers are used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transfer inmates from prisons directly into federal immigration custody. When local law enforcement agencies honor detainers, inmates are oftentimes detained for two days longer than they otherwise […]

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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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A Backgrounder: The Market Basket Strike

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