Andre Spicer argued in the Guardian this week that Amazon subjects its workers to “one of the most all-pervasive control systems in history.” The charge comes on the heels of news that Amazon holds a patent for worker cages on wheels. While the company dropp... More »
The number of blue-collar jobs is growing at its fastest rate in 30 years, the Washington Post reports. Jobs in goods-producing industries, such as mining, construction and manufacturing, grew 3.3 percent in the year preceding July, the best rate since 1984, ... More »
A provision of the recently enacted $717 billion defense-spending bill makes it easier for employees to gain ownership of the businesses where they work, CNN reports. The provision directs the Small Business Administration to make loan guarantee programs more... More »
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Nebraska arrested 133 workers in one operation, the Washington Post reports. The workers were taken at 8:45 a.m. in the small 3,700-person town of O’Niell, Nebraska. The superintendent of the town’s public... More »
Robert Reich argued in the Guardian Sunday that workers’ low wages are the result of a lack of worker bargaining power. Reich, a former U.S. Secretary of Labor, writes that despite the 3.8 percent unemployment rate, employees don’t have the levera... More »
Workers from the D.C. Metro system’s largest union voted to authorize a strike yesterday, the Washington Post reports. Union members approved the potential strike by a 94 percent margin. Union leaders have yet to say whether they will go forward with the stri... More »
Thousands of workers rallied in Columbus, Ohio yesterday, pushing for a solution to the country’s growing pension crisis, the Associated Press reports. Congressional field hearings on the issue will be held today in Columbus at 2 p.m., and will include both o... More »
As part of the ramifications from Janus, the Supreme Court case decided this past week, as many as 80,000 Illinois healthcare workers will get a second chance to recover $32 million in union fees, the Chicago Tribune reports. The Supreme Court ordered the U.S.... More »
A new study by the National Bureau of Economic research shows that the gig economy is perpetuating the gender pay gap, MarketWatch reports. According to the study, which was distributed on Monday, women Uber drivers earn 93 cents on the dollar compared to men... More »
A new report shows that workers paid the minimum wage can’t afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the U.S., the Hill reports. The report, released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, concludes that even the newly popular $15 an hour minimu... More »
A potential city of Anaheim living wage ordinance has reached a crucial milestone of support, and, if passed, would give Disneyland workers $18 an hour fixed to the cost of living, the Los Angeles Times reports. As OnLabor previously reported, the fight to bet... More »
The U.S. may be facing its largest labor strike in decades, as the vast majority of UPS’s 260,000 Teamsters voted to strike if their union can’t reach an agreement with their employer, CBS News reports. The current UPS-Teamsters contract expires o... More »