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Marina Multhaup is an Associate at Barnard, Iglitzin & Lavitt—a law firm in Seattle, Washington, that represents unions, and a former student member of the Labor and Employment Lab at Harvard Law School.

February 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

At least seventeen people have died and million remain without power in Texas as an “unprecedented” winter storm continues. Texas’ energy grid failed mostly due to its reliance on natural gas production which could not withstand the freezing temperatures. Climate change and labor activists have been highlighting the role that Texas’ privatized and deregulated energy […]

The Injustice of UI Clawbacks

Feb 10, 2021 Marina Multhaup

Across the country hundreds of thousands of people are receiving notices from their state unemployment office telling them that they were “overpaid” unemployment benefits and are now in debt to the state. Because most people received expanded federal unemployment benefits, this debt can be in the tens of thousands of dollars. When people cannot repay […]

February 3, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

Senate Democrats voted yesterday to proceed with a Covid relief package without Republicans. After Biden promised that $2k checks would “go out the door” if Democrats won Georgia, stimulus checks and broader Covid relief have been delayed and decreased, as Mackenzie noted yesterday. Since taking office Biden had expressed openness to negotiating with Republicans on […]

January 20, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

Today is the inauguration of President Joe Biden, whose candidacy has been supported by union leaders and worker advocates as a turning point for the labor movement. President Biden previously unveiled plans to implement a $15 national minimum wage, pass the PRO-Act, and expand unemployment benefits, among other pro-labor plans. President Biden promised to unveil […]

A Legal Challenge Against Racist Labor Exclusions Finds Life in Washington

Dec 15, 2020 Marina Multhaup

On November 5th the Washington Supreme Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that dairy workers are eligible for overtime pay. The Martinez-Cuevas decision could apply to all agricultural workers in Washington state. Materially this will improve the wages of farmworkers at a crucial time—seven months into a global pandemic where farmworkers, deemed “essential,” have been […]

Martinez-Cuevas: Reckoning with Labor Law’s Racist Roots

Aug 20, 2020 Marina Multhaup

The Washington Supreme Court is currently deliberating a case that could have major economic effects for our most vulnerable workers while beginning to unravel one long-standing piece of our nation’s white supremacist history. The case, Martinez-Cuevas v. Deruyter Brothers Dairy, has gone relatively uncovered by national media but speaks to the national moment that we’re […]

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OnLabor

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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February 17, 2021

The Injustice of UI Clawbacks

February 3, 2021

January 20, 2021

A Legal Challenge Against Racist Labor Exclusions Finds Life in Washington

Martinez-Cuevas: Reckoning with Labor Law’s Racist Roots