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Vivian Dong is a student at Harvard Law School.

April 9, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

The NLRB general counsel’s office has asked the NLRB to withdraw its February decision to vacate Hy-Brand, the decision that reversed Browning-Ferris and thereby made it harder for companies to be held jointly liable for the labor violations of their contractors and franchisees. The NLRB vacated Hy-Brand after the Board’s Inspector General determined that Board […]

March 12, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Teachers’ unions in other states are grappling with whether to follow the lead of West Virginia after the successful teachers’ union strike that concluded last week. Rumblings of strike activity have emerged in Kentucky, Arizona, and Oklahoma. Arizona and Oklahoma rank among the lowest in teacher pay in the country. Joe Thomas, the president of […]

March 4, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

In response to E.U. threats of retaliation against his proposed steel and aluminum tariffs, President Trump threatened that he would levy a new tax on cars imported from the European Union. Presently, the United States levies a 2.5 percent tariff duty on cars made in Europe. In addition to the European Union, China, Canada, and […]

February 26, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Oral argument for Janus happens today. As a refresher, a ruling in favor of the plaintiff, Mark Janus, would bar public sector unions from collecting agency fees that go to collective-bargaining costs from union non-members. Because unions are still under a duty of fair representation to all the employees they represent, including non-members, a ruling […]

February 12, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

This evening, the Senate is expected to begin an open-ended debate on immigration reform. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is using a neutral House bill unrelated to immigration as the base legislation, giving senators wide discretion to propose whatever they want. A proposal must receive 60 votes to become part of the base bill, and a […]

January 29, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Children working with heavy farm machinery risk serious bodily injury and even death, yet the practice remains common on America’s family farms. Every year, thousands of children and teenagers are injured doing farm work, and at least 100 are killed. In rural towns, and among safety groups, people debate whether children should routinely use farm […]

January 15, 2018
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Congress will need to pass a stopgap spending measure to avoid a government shutdown next Saturday. Democrats are seeking to use the measure to pass a Congressional version of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which offers some protection to the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United […]

December 4, 2017
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

On Friday, NLRB General Counsel Peter B. Robb told regional board officials via an internally distributed memo to consult with his office in any cases involving precedents decided under the Obama-era NLRB. Such orders are standard for a new general counsel to issue, said former NLRB chairwoman Wilma Liebman. Still, Liebman described the memo as surprisingly “sweeping.” In the same internal memo, Robb […]

November 20, 2017
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

A federal judge has approved a $209 million settlement deal in a class action suit against the NCAA on behalf of student athletes. The approval partially resolves the case, which resulted from the 2014 consolidation of multiple lawsuits in the Northern District of California. The class action suit challenges the NCAA’s rules that prohibit each […]

Today’s News & Commentary — November 6, 2017

Nov 6, 2017 Vivian Dong

U.S. job growth picked up in October after hurricanes impeded growth in September, but wages remained flat. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 261,000. In general, wage growth has failed to keep up with job growth in past few years. This in part reflects the the tepid rate of inflation, which has been consistently below the Federal […]

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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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