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Minnie Che is a student at Harvard Law School.

November 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

The National Treasury Employees Union, a large federal employee union, has published a series of labor recommendations for transition, entitled “United for America,” for President-elect Biden’s administration. In it, the union recommends that the new administration must re-empower the federal workforce by rolling back the Trump administration’s policies that have dampened collective bargaining and other employee […]

November 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

In case you missed it, OnLabor covered Proposition 22’s successful passage in California. With 58% of the vote, the law will provide an exemption to employment law for Lyft and Uber to allow them to treat their workers as independent contractors. Lyft, Uber, joined by DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates, put in over $204 million towards a campaign in […]

Prop 22 Passes in California

Nov 4, 2020 Minnie Che

With official results for the Presidential race still pending, California has passed Proposition 22, an exemption from California employment law that will allow Lyft and Uber to continue classifying workers as independent contractors. It was a closely scrutinized and costly battle. Lyft, Uber, joined by DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates, put in over $204 million towards a campaign in support of the ballot […]

October 22, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

Labor union leaders have called an “emergency meeting” this Friday in an attempt to counter any interference with the casting or counting of ballots from President Trump’s campaign. Trump’s campaign has announced that it is recruiting an “army” of volunteers that will monitor the polls. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other labor officials are worried that Trump’s repeated […]

October 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

There are more than 630,000 employees in the Postal Service. At least 10,881 workers nationwide have been impacted by covid-19. Aside from the challenges created by working during a pandemic, workers are now dealing with changes underway from a new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy. Dejoy has promised to relieve the system’s financial losses, but many worry that conservatives will lobby […]

September 24, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

In an online exchange sponsored by American Compass, Ben and Sharon write about how the decline of the labor movement has contributed to stark economic and political inequality in America, and how fixing labor law is one way to address this inequality. The piece focuses on labor law’s inequitable treatment of immigrants, workers of color, and women and calls for […]

September 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

On August 31, approximately 45 percent of the Andover Education Association, whose members consist of teachers, guidance counselors, and social workers, refused to come into a school building for an in-person professional development training. Instead, the educators remained outside of the building and participated in the training outdoors. This action was a demonstration of the teachers’ […]

August 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

On Wednesday, the BlueGreen Alliance endorsed Democratic candidate Joe Biden for president. The alliance is a coalition of U.S. labor unions and environmental groups that includes the United Steelworkers, the Utility Workers Union of America, the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters. This is the first time in its 14-year history that the group has backed a candidate for […]

August 13, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

Amidst the pandemic and its widespread economic consequences, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is looking to implement budget cuts, either through savings from the city’s unions or potentially laying off 22,000 out of 300,000 city workers. According to Politico, de Blasio’s budget team have been in contact with high-ranking city officials regarding their individual budgets. The […]

July 30, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

On July 24, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that an unemployed worker who had qualified for unemployment benefits could not be disqualified based on classification as “self-employed” when he then started driving for Uber. The worker in this case, Donald Lowman Jr., obtained compensation benefits after he lost his job in the behavior health field. He began driving […]

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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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