OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Author:Matthew Carrieri

October 3, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

News coverage of Amazon’s minimum pay raise continued yesterday. After its initial announcement, Amazon added that it will lobby Washington to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour but did not specify how much it would push for. The New York Times opined that Amazon’s announcement could spur other employers—especially retailers and warehouse […]

September 28, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

Thousands of service industry workers across seven states will strike next week to demand union representation. The Fight for $15 and the Service Employees International Union are organizing the action, which will see workers in the food service, transportation, health care, and higher education industries walk off the job between October 2 and 4. In […]

September 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

A new study by Professor Tae-Youn Park of Vanderbilt University finds that unions play a significant role in helping mothers take maternity leave. According to the study, which will be published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, union-represented mothers are at least 17 percent more likely to take paid maternity leave than their non-unionized […]

September 19, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

WeWork has reached a settlement agreement with the Attorneys General of New York and Illinois to remove or alter noncompete clauses included in the company’s employment contracts. Prior to the settlement, most of WeWork’s staff—including custodians, baristas, and receptionists—were contractually barred from working at competitors for a year after leaving the company. New York is […]

September 5, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit ruled that Columbia University’s Teachers College had unlawfully denied a request for information from UAW Local 2110, which represents the school’s secretarial and clerical workers, regarding the work performed by some employees outside the bargaining unit. A three-judge panel led by Chief Judge Merrick Garland held that the school’s withholding of […]

August 22, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

Yesterday, President Trump reportedly met with union leaders from the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, United Automobile Workers, International Association of Machinists, and United Steelworkers to discuss the administration’s ongoing NAFTA negotiations. According to a statement released by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the union leaders hoped that the meeting would “reaffirm what a good deal for working people […]

August 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

Today, Missouri voters decide the fate of the state’s “right-to-work” law by referendum. If the ballot initiative fails, the law would prevent unions from requiring their members to pay the agency fees that fund union representation. While the Supreme Court recently held in Janus that public sector unions cannot compel their members to pay agency […]

July 31, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

In Washington, DC, the Metro transit system’s largest unions—Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 and AFL-CIO Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 2—won concessions from management after threatening to strike. Metro agreed to raise wages for office employees and return some previously outsourced janitorial jobs. In return for its gains, AFL-CIO agreed to higher employee […]

July 11, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

The NFL players union has filed a grievance against the league for its “Take a Knee” ban. In a statement, the NFL Players Association argued that the policy “is inconsistent with the collective agreement and infringes on player rights[.]” The NFL announced the policy, which requires players to either stand during the national anthem or […]

July 8, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

The Department of Labor released its monthly job report on Friday. In the month of June, the United States added 213,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate ticked slightly upward from 3.8 percent to 4 percent. Some 50,000 of those jobs came from the professional and business services sector, while manufacturing added another 36,000 jobs. Many […]

Newer
1
2
3
4
Older

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.

Learn more about OnLabor

OnLabor is unable to accept unsolicited submissions.

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Contact: [email protected]
Site design: Jon White Studio

Sections

All Editorial Writing
All News & Commentary
From The Editor
From Senior Contributors
Analysis From Guest Voices
OnLabor In The News
All Featured Coverage
About

Connect

Follow OnLabor on X
Subscribe via RSS

Search for:

October 3, 2018

September 28, 2018

September 21, 2018

September 19, 2018

September 5, 2018

August 22, 2018

August 7, 2018

July 31, 2018

July 11, 2018

July 8, 2018