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Tiran Bajgiran is a student at Harvard Law School.

Protecting Wages From Inflation

Jan 25, 2023 Tiran Bajgiran

Cost-of-living adjustment (or COLA) clauses, from a Canadian perspective

Union-Busting, Inc.

Oct 14, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

There's a lot we don't know about how much employers spend on union-busting consultants.

UK Striker-Replacement Law: ‘Criminal Offence’ Turned ‘Option for Business’

Aug 26, 2022 Jason Vazquez and Tiran Bajgiran

Last July, the UK government adopted a new law enabling employment agency staff — workers employed by private staffing firms to fill temporary positions at other businesses — to replace strikers, which effectively amounts to state-sanctioned strike breaking. “This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business,” candidly tweeted business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, perhaps letting slip […]

How Surveillance Capitalism Disempowers the Working Class

Jan 10, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Nurses have their footsteps tracked electronically. Cashiers are monitored by point-of-sale devices that measure their efficiency by the minute. Warehouse workers wear “haptic” wristbands evaluating their performance – and vibrating when they slack off. Delivery personnel contend with near-constant behavioral analysis by their phone, which tracks their location, speed, braking or how long they touch […]

When Algorithms Fire Humans

Jan 5, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Poor selfies, rainy days, and locked gates – all are reported triggers for the auto-firing of delivery personnel by Amazon’s Flex app, and all follow events beyond the workers’ control. Meanwhile, no appeal to humans is available on the platform, nor any negotiation with the opaque algorithm calculating whether gig drivers have outlived their usefulness […]

#Antiwork & the Digital Praise of Idleness

Dec 31, 2021 Tiran Bajgiran

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.” — Lane Kirkland Is a worker revolution quietly brewing in cyberspace? The Covid era has witnessed unprecedented grassroots mobilization of workers on digital platforms, who are finding community in pushing back against exploitative employers. Common to these […]

On-App Standby as Work Time in International Labor Law

Oct 22, 2021 Tiran Bajgiran

Suppose as a premise that Uber drivers are employees. What, then, constitutes their “hours of work” under international labor standards? The question is timely given two parallel trends in the global ride-hailing economy. One is a growing transnational backlash at Uber’s misclassification of gig drivers as independent contractors — in jurisdictions ranging from Canada to […]

OnLabor

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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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Protecting Wages From Inflation

Union-Busting, Inc.

UK Striker-Replacement Law: ‘Criminal Offence’ Turned ‘Option for Business’

How Surveillance Capitalism Disempowers the Working Class

When Algorithms Fire Humans

#Antiwork & the Digital Praise of Idleness

On-App Standby as Work Time in International Labor Law