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January 16, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced a rare, unanimous victory for workers in New Prime v. Oliveira, ruling that transportation workers cannot be forced into mandatory arbitration when their rights are violated at work. Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act has a carveout for “contracts of employment of seaman, railroad workers, or any other class […]

OnLabor Reaches One Million Views

Jan 14, 2019 Sejal Singh

Last week, OnLabor reached our one millionth page view! We are thrilled and grateful to all of you—our readers, contributors, and community—who have helped us grow into a hub of conversation about labor law, politics, and power. To celebrate the work of our contributors and the dedication of our readers since our founding, we’ve compiled […]

January 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Senior Contributor Charlotte Garden has a great new piece up at Take Care examining the ways antitrust law inhibits worker power — and how the growing movement to update anti-trust for the 21st century should protect workers instead As Charlotte writes, “the conventional wisdom is that workers’ collective action is exempt from antitrust scrutiny only if […]

January 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Happy New Year! OnLabor’s daily News & Commentary posts return today. Here are the biggest updates in labor news from the holidays. Minimum wages rose in 20 states yesterday, raising wages for 5.3 million workers nationwide. According to the Economic Policy Institute, workers will see about $5.4 billion in increased wages due to rising minimum […]

Happy Holidays from OnLabor!

Dec 25, 2018 Sejal Singh

We believe that all workers deserve time off — so we’ll be pausing our daily News and Commentary posts for the next week. We’ll be back in the New Year. In the meantime, check out some of our best content of 2018 from Professor Ben Sachs and from our Senior Contributors. Happy Holidays!

December 14, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

A restaurant workers’ organization is appealing a D.C. Superior Court’s order that blocked a referendum to raise D.C.’s sub-minimum base wage for tipped workers. In many states, including D.C., tipped workers like waiters, bartender, and manicurists can be paid a sub-minimum base wage — which, in D.C., is just $3.33 an hour — that is […]

December 5, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

The Fight for $15 movement has raised wages by $68 billion for 22 million low-wage workers, according to a new study published by the National Employment Law Project (NELP). In a remarkable sign of the campaign’s effectiveness, NELP found that the $68 billion of additional income for minimum-wage workers is “more than 14 time larger […]

November 25, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Amazon workers across Europe went on strike over Black Friday, protesting their punishing work schedules, low wages, and dangerous working conditions. Workers walked out in protest in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Spain, where the AP reports that about 90 percent of workers at an Amazon depot near Madrid walked out this week. A […]

November 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

In an unprecedented victory for Amazon workers, the company’s management has agreed to negotiate with organized East African workers in Amazon’s Minneapolis warehouses. The New York Times reports that this appears to be the first time Amazon management agreed to negotiate, even privately, under pressure from workers. The predominantly Muslim workers organized to secure religious […]

November 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Democrats took back control of the House of Representatives in a high-stakes election last night — with tremendous consequences for working people and economic justice. Democrats netted 26 seats in the House, giving the party a new check on the Trump Administration and the power to block GOP-led legislation. As expected, Republicans maintained their Senate majority […]

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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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