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March 3, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Over the weekend, Jeremy Brecher wrote for Common Dreams about Minneapolis janitorial workers who engaged in a one-day walkout last Thursday. The janitorial workers are part of Service Employees International Union Local 26 and are employed by a range of different companies in the Minneapolis area. The cleaning workers’ contract expired in December, but the […]

February 28, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, a group of major unions filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) asking the F.T.C. to investigate Amazon. The petition highlights a range of Amazon business practices that have received scrutiny over the past few years for the impacts such “anti-competitive” practices have had on Amazon’s workers, Amazon’s competitors, and its competitors’ […]

February 18, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Safeway workers in northern California are threatening to go on strike. Last week, the union representing the roughly 14,000 Safeway workers in the state cancelled its contract with the company after over a year of attempting to negotiate an extension. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 will need to seek permission from the UFCW […]

February 4, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

The Trump administration continues its regulatory rulemaking push. Bloomberg Law reported yesterday on a proposed rule submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) by the U.S. Department Labor last Friday that would require unions to disclose various kinds of financial information related to union trusts. The rule was proposed last May. Submission […]

January 31, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

American Airlines has reached a tentative contract with the unions that represent the company’s mechanics and fleet service workers. Negotiations over a contract had been going on for more than four years. The negotiations were characterized by periodic bouts of tension, and included a work slowdown that led to a court battle—which the company eventually […]

January 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Bloomberg Law reports that teacher strikes across the U.S. have led to higher bargained-for wages over the past two years. In 2018, teachers and other school staff across West Virginia went on strike to protest working conditions in the state’s schools. Similar strikes around the country followed, often assisted by social media and accompanied by […]

January 7, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unanimously concluded that the Board lacked jurisdiction over a labor dispute arising out of operations at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Carriers at O’Hare contract with outside companies who provide maintenance and repair services for the carriers’ baggage conveyor systems and jet bridges. In 2013, […]

December 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Tomorrow’s Democratic presidential primary debate, scheduled to take place at Loyola Marymount University, will go on as planned after university workers reached a deal with Sodexo. Unite Here Local 11, the union representing roughly 150 campus cooks, dishwashers, and cashiers at Loyola Marymount, announced yesterday that Sodexo had agreed to a tentative contract Monday night, […]

December 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) directed an Administrative Law Judge to approve a series of proposed settlement agreements proffered by McDonald’s in a long-running dispute over unfair labor practices committed by its franchisees—a dispute that centers on the degree to which the company can be held accountable for those violations as a “joint […]

November 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

McDonald’s has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the fast-food giant of wage theft. Employees in California originally filed suit in 2013, alleging, among other things, that the company had failed to pay overtime premiums, refused to provide employees with rest and meal periods, and failed to reimburse employees […]

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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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