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 me... More »
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 yea... More »
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... More »
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 reta... More »
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 woul... More »
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 dist... More »
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 ... More »
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 ... More »
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 airl... More »
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) just released a sweeping new plan to strengthen American labor unions—and meet Sanders’ goal of doubling union membership during his first term in office. Sanders’ labor plan calls to end “at-will” employ... More »
Senate Republicans won’t even consider legislation to raise the federal minimum wage. Last month, the House approved the Raise the Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $15, by a vote of 231 to 199. But to get to the President’s desk, the leg... More »
Yesterday, the Trump Administration issued its “public charge” rule, which allows U.S. Customs and Immigration Services to deny greencards to any documented immigrants who have used, or who USCIS believes are likely to use, public benefits like food stamps or ... More »
October 18th, 2019