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Lauren Godles is a student at Harvard Law School.

September 14, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The U.S. Census Bureau has good news for Americans: household incomes increased in the largest annual surge ever recorded (5.2%) in 2015. The average household income now stands at $56,516 and is up for the first time since 2007. However, it still stands below the pre-recession high from 1999. The New York Times Editorial Board criticized both major presidential nominees for […]

August 31, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The labor community continues to speculate about the consequences of the monumental NLRB decision last week that held graduate students to be statutory employees. Writing for the Huffington Post, law Professor Joseph P. Mastrosimone suggests that there will be three unintended consequences of the decision. First, he contends that university honor codes that require such behaviors as “harmonious relationships” […]

August 17, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

Only a dire situation would motivate an airline pilot to personally demonstrate the use of her breast pump in front of colleagues at a union meeting — and that situation is a complete lack of maternity and breastfeeding accommodations. In a fascinating piece yesterday, the New York Times chronicled the struggles of pregnant and nursing pilots, who are exempt from a provision in the […]

July 31, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

Donald Trump appears to have settled on a federal $10 minimum wage, despite his previous position that increases should be determined by the states. Bloomberg calls his new minimum wage pronouncement “the latest headache for Republicans,” whose recently-published party platform firmly states that the minimum wage “should be handled at the state and local level.” And, in further […]

Senate Cafeteria Workers Will Receive $1 million in Backpay from Restaurant Associates

Jul 26, 2016 Lauren Godles

Today, the Department of Labor announced today that the Senate cafeteria workers who were illegally denied wages will receive $1 million dollars in backpay from Restaurant Associates (RA) and its subcontractor, Personnel Plus. The money will be split among 674 employees, though DOL did not specify how much particular individuals will receive. Even a small backpay award or […]

July 20, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The Republican Party has officially nominated Donald Trump for president, but many are still concerned about his penchant for making false statements on the campaign trail. Writing for The Nation, Richard Trumka suggests that union elections can offer important lessons about regulating Trump’s lies. Trumka highlights an important divergence between the way federal courts and the NLRB regulate false representations during government and union election […]

July 6, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

How do unpaid interns in D.C. get by? With a little help from their parents, of course. The New York Times profiled several unpaid interns in the nation’s capital who, unsurprisingly, either rely on significant parental support or must work nights and weekends to make ends meet. The Times reports that only “very few” of the thousands of Congressional […]

June 22, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

Summer is heating up, and so is the Uber antitrust lawsuit. Judge Jed Rakoff’s most recent decision in the case became public on Monday, and it allows Uber Technologies Inc. to be added as a defendant in the case. The original lawsuit named only the company’s CEO, Travis Kalanik. This addition could trigger the arbitration clause that the […]

June 8, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The City Council of Washington, D.C. voted unanimously on Tuesday to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15. After the vote is ratified in July (considered “only a formality” at this point), the increase will take effect gradually through 2020. Mayor Muriel Bowser has committed to signing the legislation, though she acknowledges that even living on $15 per […]

Arizona as a Test Case for Immigration Effects on Employment

Apr 29, 2016 Lauren Godles

In Arizona, between 2007 and 2012, the number of undocumented immigrants dropped by forty percent. The exodus has been largely attributed to two sweeping laws targeting undocumented immigrants: the Legal Arizona Worker’s Act (LAWA) (2008) and the controversial SB 1070 law (2010), which advocates on both sides of the issue called “the broadest and strictest […]

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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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Senate Cafeteria Workers Will Receive $1 million in Backpay from Restaurant Associates

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Arizona as a Test Case for Immigration Effects on Employment