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January 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

A North Carolina teachers’ union is surveying members about a potential strike as pay raises for teachers have been caught up in the state’s bitter budget stalemate. Democratic North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a proposed budget passed by Republican legislators last summer because the proposal excluded funding for Medicaid expansion and for providing a […]

January 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

France’s transportation strike against austerity reached its sixth week yesterday — and is now the longest strike in the nation’s history. Public sector workers went on strike in early December to protest the government’s proposed pension reform proposal to merge pension schemes for French workers into a single system—under which many workers would see much less […]

Happy Holidays From OnLabor!

Dec 25, 2019 Sejal Singh

Happy Holidays! Here at OnLabor, we believe that all workers deserve time off — so we’ll be taking some time off ourselves over the holidays, and pausing our daily News & Commentary posts for the next week. News & Commentary will be back in the new year. In the meantime, check out some of our […]

December 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

House Democrats and the Trump Administration appear on the verge of agreement on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a North American trade deal that President Trump is billing as a NAFTA replacement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not confirm news of a trade deal last night, but told press that “we made great progress” towards […]

November 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This Black Friday, retail workers are organizing for dignity in the workplace. In the American Prospect, David Dayen profiles United for Respect, an alt-labor coalition and organizing powerhouse that’s fighting low pay and indecent working conditions in a retail industry that employs almost 16 million people. United for Respect grew out of OUR Walmart, a […]

November 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This year, construction workers Bright Power formed one of the first ever unions to at a solar power company. But on Monday, the company fire the entire construction crew — in the middle of bargaining their first contract — and instead announced that they would be replaced by subcontractors. Unionized workers told Vice reporter Lauren Gurley […]

November 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Teachers in Little Rock, Arkansas—home to one of the most important desegregation battles in American history—went on strike yesterday to protest a state plan that teachers say would resegregate the school system. Arkansas state took control of the school district in 2015, and recently used that power to strip Little Rock teachers of their collective […]

October 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

More than 30,000 Chicago public school teachers and support staff walked out of classrooms yesterday, in the latest stage of teacher strikes since successful teachers strikes in West Virginia and Kentucky kicked off the #RedforEd movement early last year. CTU teachers are joined by more than 7,500 Chicago Public Schools classroom assistants for students with […]

October 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren released a sweeping labor plan yesterday aimed at returning economic and political power to working people. Senator Warren’s plan centers ambitious proposals to expand labor rights and strengthen the right to organize—including by promoting sectoral bargaining, amending federal labor law to allow fast food workers, child care workers, and more […]

September 9, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

For the first time in decades, British Airways pilots are on strike. Pilots went on a 48-hour strike that started at midnight on Sunday over a contentious pay dispute: British Airways cut pay and pension benefits for pilots during precarious years for the airline following the financial crisis, and pilots now argue they deserve a […]

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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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