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January 7, 2015
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. Steel Corp. will idle plants in Ohio and Texas and lay off 756 workers as a result of the recent collapse in global oil prices. Because oil prices have plunged to about $50 per barrel, U.S. Steel, which makes steel pipes and tubes for oil and gas exploration […]

December 14, 2014
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

This week, California prison officials agreed to make minimum custody inmates employed by the prison system eligible for early release. The proceedings resulted from the Supreme Court’s finding in 2011 that California’s prisons were so overcrowded that their conditions violated the Eighth Amendment. The Attorney General’s office had resisted the settlement previously, arguing that the inmates provided a […]

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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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