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November 19, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

Twenty states suspend people’s professional or driver’s licenses for falling behind on student loan payments, according to the New York Times. Licensing laws developed as government losses from student loans rose rapidly, hitting the billion-dollar mark in the 1980s. Texas and Illinois were the first states to enact licensing laws, and the Department of Education […]

November 7, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

The House of Representatives convened last night to consider the Save Local Business Act. The Rules Committee voted 9-2 for the proposed legislation. If passed, the bill would narrow the definition of joint employer. The legislation would limit an employer’s liability under the National Labor Relations Act and Fair Labor Standards Act. Employers would be […]

October 22, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

Jeffrey Mateer, First Assistant Attorney General of Texas and President Trump’s nominee to serve as a federal district judge in the Eastern District of Texas, has admitted to discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation in two separate speeches from 2015. In a speech to the National Religious Liberties Conference, Mateer stated, “Guess what? I […]

October 8, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

On Friday, the Trump administration announced its plan to roll back the 2012 Obamacare birth control mandate, effective immediately. The mandate required all employers to provide coverage of FDA-approved birth control in their health insurance plans. Under the mandate, 55 million women were able to access birth control without co-payments, resulting in savings of $1.4 […]

September 24, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post discussing how NAFTA has disadvantaged American workers. Citing a report released by the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis within the Department of Commerce, Secretary Ross argues that the amount of U.S. content in manufactured goods imported from Canada and Mexico has […]

August 27, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration erased information pertaining to workplace deaths from its homepage on Friday. The data has been replaced with information about how companies can make sure they comply with OSHA standards to reduce workplace risks. In the past, OSHA listed all workplace deaths, regardless of whether or not the company was […]

August 13, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

On Friday, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin announced new legislation intended to expand apprenticeships and public-private partnerships. The PARTNERS (Pairing Apprenticeships with Regional Training Networks to Meet Employer Requirements) Act would allow states to obtain money from the Department of Labor to expand existing apprenticeship initiatives or to start new ones. In turn, states that receive […]

July 30, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

According to The New York Times, a health center providing free healthcare to members of the union, the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, will open in Brooklyn this August. Free healthcare is not new for the union’s members. The union has operated their own health centers for decades. The most recent contract between […]

Weekend News & Commentary — July 15-16, 2017

Jul 16, 2017 Kamika Shaw

On Wednesday, nurses at Tufts Medical Center went on strike. This marks the first nurses’ strike in Boston in over 30 years and, according to the union, the largest in Boston’s history. Approximately 1,200 members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association participated. The strike comes on the heels of 15 months of failed contract negotiations between […]

July 2, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

This week, the Department of Labor expressed its intention to change its impending overtime rule. The Labor Department filed a response brief in a Fifth Circuit case involving a challenge to the Obama administration’s overtime rule. The rule, which was intended to go into effect last December, increased the salary threshold under which workers would […]

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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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