The UAW began negotiations for new collective bargaining agreements with Ford, Chrysler, and GM early this week. After granting significant concessions during the recession, workers now seek a higher share of the companies’ record profits. The UAW hopes to m... More »
The US Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) won the World Cup 2-0 yesterday — the fourth time that the team has won the title. At the stadium, the team’s supporters chanted “Equal Pay!” in support of the players’ efforts to secure pay parity with the US... More »
Following a ten-month grassroots campaign led by the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance (PDWA) and supported by over forty unions and community organizations, the Philadelphia City Council introduced a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights last Thursday. If pass... More »
Graduate student workers at the University of Chicago held a three day strike last week to pressure the university to recognize and bargain with their union, Graduate Students United. As previously reported in OnLabor, UChicago student workers voted to unioni... More »
Cai Shuang Chen, a delivery worker in New York, won $327,738 in a wage theft case in September 2017. However, Chen is unable to collect this money under New York state law, as the restaurant he worked for changed its name and thus technically no longer exists... More »
The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that will prevent independent provider (IP) homecare workers paid by Medicaid from deducting union dues from their paychecks. SEIU, which represents around 500,000 homecare workers across the countr... More »
Both houses of Mexico’s legislature passed a domestic workers’ rights bill, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to sign into law. The bill extends Mexico’s minimum wages and benefits — including social security, healthcare, and mater... More »
Delta flight attendants and ramp service workers are trying to unionize with the Machinists union. In response, Delta has posted a series of condescending flyers, sparking outrage and mockery from workers and community supporters. One poster stated, “Union d... More »
Unionized attorneys and other staff at CAMBA Legal Services — a Brooklyn-based legal aid organization — are entering the third week of their strike for a fair contract. The workers are calling for paid leave for all parents as well as fair pay for... More »
For the fifth day, over 30,000 Stop & Shop workers at over 240 stores across New England stayed off the job and on the picket lines as negotiations continue. As previously reported in OnLabor, these workers — represented by five United Food and Comm... More »
Adjunct faculty at Miami-Dade College (MDC) have voted to unionize with SEIU Florida; they will now constitute the largest adjunct faculty union in Florida and the “largest single-school adjunct collective bargaining unit in the country.” Adjunct faculty are ... More »
On Friday, a white supremacist attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing fifty people and injuring dozens more. In the aftermath of the attack, Facebook said that it removed 1.5 million videos of the mass shooting. However, directly hired fa... More »
July 17th, 2019