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Marissa Marandola is a student at Harvard Law School.

May 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

Staffers on Julián Castro’s presidential campaign have chosen to unionize, unanimously selecting the Campaign Workers Guild (CWG) as their representative. The campaign voluntarily recognized the union, in accord with a neutrality agreement it had previously entered with CWG. Campaign manager Maya Rupert said, “Unions are essential protections for workers, including campaign workers, and the teams […]

April 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

On Thursday, Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, charged a Massachusetts district court judge and a former court officer with three federal obstruction offenses. Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph and Wesley McGregor are accused of helping a defendant in their courtroom, an undocumented immigrant, leave through the backdoor of the courthouse while […]

April 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

On Friday, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) instructed its 15,000 members to fire their agents or face penalties, after talks between the union, which consists of movie and television writers, and the Association of Talent Agents (ATA), the group representing the major agencies in negotiations, deteriorated ahead of a midnight deadline. The writers claim […]

In California, Legislative Negotiations over the Worker Classification Question Continue

Apr 11, 2019 Marissa Marandola

As OnLabor reported last month, in the wake of the California Supreme Court’s ruling in Dynamex Operations West, Inc., the California State Legislature is considering several bills this session that would address the question of how to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee under California labor and employment law. The […]

Janus, Compelled Speech, and Public Employee Pensions: An Analysis of Sweeney v. IMRF

Apr 2, 2019 Marissa Marandola

On March 19, a federal judge held that the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) does not violate public employees’ First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of association by investing their mandatory contributions in companies that indirectly subsidize the anti-union political activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Municipal employees and their union […]

March 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

The Maryland General Assembly overrode Republican Governor Larry Hogan’s veto of an increase in the state’s hourly minimum wage from $10.10 to $15 by 2025 for businesses with 15 or more employees and by 2026 for smaller employers. As OnLabor previously reported, Hogan’s veto was expected and followed a House and Senate committee reconciliation process that set […]

March 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign announced on Friday that it will have a unionized workforce. A majority of staffers signed union cards authorizing United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 to represent them, and the campaign voluntarily recognized the union. The bargaining unit will include all campaign employees below the rank of deputy […]

March 3, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that representatives of the Oakland Education Association and Oakland Unified School District officials have reached a tentative agreement to end the seven-day-long teachers’ strike. Under the terms of the proposed contract, Oakland educators would receive an eleven-percent raise over three years and a one-time, three-percent bonus. The deal would also reduce […]

Post-Dynamex, California Legislature Takes Up the Worker Classification Question

Mar 1, 2019 Marissa Marandola

Last spring, the California Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the gig economy with its ruling in Dynamex Operations West, Inc., in which it held that the so-called ABC test is the appropriate one for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee under California wage and hour law. Over the summer, the […]

February 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

On Thursday, Illinois state lawmakers passed a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. The $15 minimum wage was a campaign staple and top legislative priority for Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker, who announced in a statement that he would “proudly sign this historic legislation” on Tuesday. At present, […]

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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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May 12, 2019

April 28, 2019

April 14, 2019

In California, Legislative Negotiations over the Worker Classification Question Continue

Janus, Compelled Speech, and Public Employee Pensions: An Analysis of Sweeney v. IMRF

March 31, 2019

March 17, 2019

March 3, 2019

Post-Dynamex, California Legislature Takes Up the Worker Classification Question

February 17, 2019