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April 1, 2018
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

Just weeks after a battle between West Virginian teachers and state legislators resulted in teachers receiving a pay raise to end a state-wide strike, teachers in Kentucky could go on strike to protest a bill currently before Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin that would overhaul public employees’ retirement benefits. Teachers in Oklahoma are staging their own […]

March 26, 2018
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered this weekend for ‘March For Our Lives’ protests across the country and around the world. The student-lead movement for gun control has not weakened in the weeks since the Parkland, Florida shooting. Read more about the March here. Watch a few of the moving speeches for March for Our […]

March 18, 2018
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

Late Friday evening, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. Sessions alleged that McCabe had made unauthorized disclosures to the media and “lacked candor” in speaking to an internal watchdog group – a fireable offense. McCabe was set to retire today, Sunday, with full pension benefits. President Trump tweeted that McCabe […]

February 18, 2018
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

According to Liz O’Donnell at The Atlantic there is a looming crisis facing America’s working daughters. While advocates already face challenges with regards to paid family and medical leave, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are currently 44 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States and the majority are women. With few formal or […]

Weekend News & Commentary — February 10-11, 2018

Feb 11, 2018 Suzanne Schlossberg

Jon Steingart at Bloomberg Law details how the GrubHub litigation could find new legs at the trial court level. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held on Feb. 8 that former GrubHub delivery driver Raef Lawson was not an employee as Lawson had contended. Judge Coreley […]

February 4, 2018
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

On Friday, Indiana became the second state to get approval from the Trump administration to impose a work requirement on Medicaid beneficiaries. The Wall Street Journal reports that the approval is “the first major health-policy move since Alex Azar was sworn in Monday as Health and Human Services secretary,” and “suggests continued support under his leadership […]

January 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

The federal government shutdown began at 12:01am on Saturday morning. The New York Times details the percentage of employees estimated to be furloughed in each department based on the shutdown, and what happened to federal employees and programs during the last shutdown in 2013. More than 80% of the Department of Labor’s employees are expected to […]

December 20, 2017
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

The House passed the GOP tax reform bill yesterday afternoon, but will have to vote on it again today to avoid potentially violating the Byrd Rule, which governs the types of legislation that can be passed under reconciliation. The Senate passed it last night on a party-line vote. Reuters has a good, simple run down of what […]

December 18, 2017
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

According to Washington Post reporter Matt Zapotosky, Judge Kozinski has announced his retirement from the bench, effective immediately. The Washington Post reported on Friday that nine more women have accused 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski of inappropriate sexual behavior – bringing the total number of women who have accused Judge Kozinski to fifteen. The circuit’s Chief Judge, Sidney […]

Weekend News & Commentary — November 25-26, 2017

Nov 26, 2017 Suzanne Schlossberg

Bloomberg Law reports on a number of Congressional labor policy staff who are leaving the Hill, although the staffing changes are not expected to change labor policy for either Republicans or Democrats. Liz Watson, the former labor policy director for Democrats on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, recently moved home to Indiana to run for […]

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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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