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August 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

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” employment, the legal rule that American workers can be fired by employers for any reason, end state right-to-work […]

August 16, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

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 legislation would have to pass the Senate’s Health, Education, […]

August 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

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 Medicaid. The final rule effectively gives USCIS discretion to deny permanent residency to immigrants solely […]

August 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This year, public sector employees in blue states have organized to expand their collective bargaining right—scoring significant legislative gains in spite of the Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision. The Intercept reports that more than 22,000 public sector workers in Nevada and Delaware have “gained the right to collectively bargain this year thanks to recently passed […]

July 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Democratic Presidential contender Pete Buttigieg released a labor and employment policy platform on Friday. Buttigieg’s new platform includes raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, paid sick and family leave, and a series of proposals aimed at strengthening unions’ collective bargaining power and ability to organize. For example, the proposal calls for a “strong […]

July 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t plan to impeach Labor Secretary Alex Acosta—even as Acosta faces widespread calls to resign over a plea deal he negotiated with Jeffrey Epstein, a powerful money manager accused of using his wealth and access to cover up his sexual abuse of dozens of underage girls. Epstein was charged this weekend […]

June 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Wayfair employees are walking out today to protest the furniture company’s contacts with the contractors running child internment camps on the border. Wayfair workers learned that the company placed a $200,000 furniture order with BCFS, a federal contractor that runs immigrant detention camps, for a facility housing 3,000 migrant children legally seeking asylum in the […]

June 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This week, Democratic Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders floated support for decriminalizing sex work, joining Cory Booker, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and long-shot candidate Mike Gravel, who even lists decriminalization as a platform priority on his website (or, at least, the Gravel teens did). In March, Senator Harris announced support for the “Nordic […]

May 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Google’s temporary employees and contractors now outnumber full-time employees, according to a New York Times expose. Contingent employees are formally employed by independent staffing agencies, but work side-by-side with Google employees, but “make less money, have different benefits plans and have no paid vacation time.” Both Google employees and contract workers say that, in reality, […]

May 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

The National Labor Relations Board issued a memorandum concluding that Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act. Because the NLRA’s protections apply to employees, the decision leaves ride-hail drivers vulnerable to retaliation if they attempt to organize a union or engage in other collective action. The […]

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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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