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December 24, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The Wall Street Journal reports that American Airlines will offer 4% pay raises for all unions able to reach post-merger labor contracts with the company, while raising non-union pay by the same. The move comes one year after American and US Airways merged, as the new company is eager to build a common culture among […]

December 10, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

Yesterday we covered the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision in Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk. The New York Times, Washington Post, and Reuters have additional coverage of the case. The Senate has confirmed Lauren McGarity McFerran to the NLRB for a five-year term. The party-line vote ensures that that the Board will retain a 3-2 Democratic […]

November 30, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

According to the New York Times Upshot Blog, elements of the gender gap at work persist even at the highest levels of the business world. A new study of the career paths of Harvard Business School alums confirmed that over time more men than women achieve high-responsibility positions, yet the difference does not result from […]

November 26, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

Mother Jones explains San Francisco’s new law that will sharply curtail “on call” scheduling in the city’s major retailers. The new law requires employers to post schedules at least two weeks in advance and pay employees whose shifts are cancelled at the last minute. In addition, employers must offer available shifts to existing employees before […]

November 12, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

Politico reports that this morning Volkswagen of America announced a new “community organization engagement policy” that allows labor organizations representing a certain percentage of workers to have more say at the company’s plant in Chattanooga, TN. Prof. Sachs has described the plan as “sort of minority unionism,” since it makes different tiers of representation contingent on […]

New Life for D.R. Horton?

Nov 10, 2014 Scott Hochberg

Last week the NLRB confirmed its 2013 opinion in D.R. Horton, in a case which may breathe new life into the Board’s conclusion that employers who require their employees to waive their right to collective action under their employment contracts violate § 7 of the NLRA. The Board’s new decision in Murphy Oil U.S.A. reaffirmed […]

October 29, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

According to the Washington Post, this week UPS changed its official policy and said it would now offer temporary light duty not just to workers injured on the job, as had been the policy, but to pregnant workers as well. This is precisely the issue in Young v. UPS, a case the Supreme Court will […]

The Impact of California’s New Anti-Retaliation Protections for Immigrant Workers

Oct 15, 2014 Scott Hochberg

Last year California passed several new bills that extend anti-retaliation protections for all workers, including some measures that are specific to immigrant workers. The expanded legal rights and remedies these laws offer could be strong enough to limit retaliatory incidents in many workplaces where intimidation, threats, or pressure chill employees’ willingness to enforce their rights. […]

October 15, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The Department of Labor is offering nearly $1.4 million in funding to support enforcement of anti-discrimination laws in Mexico. According to the agency, “the goal is to increase compliance with the expanded protections against labor discrimination under Mexican labor law, with a specific focus on combating gender discrimination, forced pregnancy testing, sexual harassment and discrimination […]

October 1, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The New York Times reports that NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio signed an executive order on Tuesday that expanded the city’s living wage law, “covering thousands of previously exempt workers and raising the hourly wage itself, to $13.13 from $11.90, for workers who do not receive benefits.” The order covers employees of commercial tenants on projects that […]

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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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December 24, 2014

December 10, 2014

November 30, 2014

November 26, 2014

November 12, 2014

New Life for D.R. Horton?

October 29, 2014

The Impact of California’s New Anti-Retaliation Protections for Immigrant Workers

October 15, 2014

October 1, 2014