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Nikita Rumsey is a student at Harvard Law School.

May 11, 2022
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Nikita Rumsey

As Bloomberg reported, the House of Representatives cleared the way for congressional staffers to unionize as lawmakers approved the resolution (H. Res. 1096) to confirm the right of staffers to unionize. Technically, the lawmakers did not vote directly on the resolution but rather voted on a larger package of rules guiding floor debate for other […]

April 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Maryland’s Republican governor Larry Hogan vetoed a statewide paid family and medical leave bill this week. The bill would have guaranteed up to 12 weeks annually for workers with medical need or up 24 weeks for a parent requiring medical need during pregnancy followed by parental leave. However, the state legislature passed the bill with […]

March 27, 2022
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Nikita Rumsey

The New York Times reported that the White House will request that Congress pass a new minimum wealth tax on the ultra-rich as part of the Biden Administration’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Called the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the tax would stipulate that households worth more than $100 million pay a rate […]

February 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The CDC issued a new set of recommendations for Covid-19 mask-wearing that suggest around 70% of Americans may stop wearing masks, according to the New York Times. The CDC’s recommendations no longer rely only on the number of cases in a community to determine the necessary threshold for restrictions like mask-wearing and social distancing. Instead, […]

February 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The New York Times published an exposé on Kroger, the U.S.’s largest supermarket chain and the fourth-largest employer in the Fortune 500, whose tremendous financial success during the pandemic has not translated into improved wages and working conditions for many of its employees. While Kroger, whose stock has risen about 36% over the past year, […]

January 30, 2022
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Nikita Rumsey

In the wake of OSHA’s withdrawal of its shot-or-test rule for large employers after the Supreme Court blocked its enforcement, attention has shifted to OSHA’s Covid-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) covering the healthcare industry. On December 27, 2021, OSHA withdrew its ETS that was designed to protect healthcare workers, ostensibly because OSHA failed to meet […]

January 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing the Biden Administration’s health worker vaccine-or-test mandate to move forward, the Department of Health and Human Services is appealing a federal court’s ruling that had enjoined the health worker vaccine rule in Texas, the only state that as yet does not have to comply […]

December 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) appeared on “Fox News Sunday” this morning to say that he will not support President Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, likely sending a death knell to the $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate and tax bill at the center of the administration’s domestic agenda. Citing concerns about increasing the […]

December 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday that the city’s Law Department and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have filed a lawsuit against L’Officiel USA, the American subsidiary of the French-owned global media company that operates many print and digital magazines covering fashion, music, film, literature, politics and so on. […]

November 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

On Friday, the House narrowly passed the Build Back Better Act, approving $2.2 trillion in spending over the next ten years to tackle climate change, improve access to healthcare and bolster the nation’s social safety net. The bill passed by a margin of 220-213, with unanimous opposition from Republicans. Although the bill has already been […]

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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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