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Vivian Dong is a student at Harvard Law School.

October 7, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in September. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly from 4.9% to 5%, reflecting an uptick in the labor force participation rate. The proportion of Americans in the labor force is still at a 40-year low. Theresa May gave a speech […]

September 23, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

On September 19, Seattle City Council passed the Secure Scheduling Ordinance, which requires major retail and restaurant establishments to provide a “livable schedule” to its employees. Workers at retail and restaurant businesses with 500 or more employees worldwide (and 40+ locations worldwide for restaurants specifically) will now have the right to two weeks’ advanced notice […]

September 9, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Please see OnLabor’s coverage of the 9th Circuit’s recent holding in favor of most of Uber’s driver arbitration agreements’ enforceability. The 2nd Circuit has reaffirmed the validity of class and collective action waivers in arbitration agreements, contra the position of the NLRB. The Circuit had previously held that such waivers did not violate the NLRA […]

August 28, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

The employees who run Access-A-Ride, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s service for people with disabilities, may be earning a $15 minimum wage by 2018. The employees work for Global Contact Services, which contracts with the M.T.A. to run Access-A-Ride. The employees’ union, Transport Workers Union Local 100, held negotiations with Global Contact Services over working […]

August 12, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Judge Rakoff denied Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s motion to compel arbitration in a proposed class action antitrust action last week. Uber rider Spencer Meyer is suing CEO Kalanick, who is also a registered Uber driver, on allegations of horizontal and vertical price-fixing. As part of registering to become an Uber rider, Meyer had to sign […]

July 29, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

The NLRB declined yesterday to review the decision to unionize of workers at Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas. Roughly 500 Trump International Hotel workers voted and narrowly approved joining the Culinary Workers Union last December, but Trump International Hotel did not recognize the election, arguing that the election was “anything but free and fair.” The […]

July 15, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Donald Trump has selected Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his vice-president. Unions are unlikely to be happy with the choice. Pence’s administration successfully defended in court Indiana’s right-to-work law, passed by Pence’s predecessor. Pence also repealed the state’s common wage for construction projects. But Pence departs from Trump’s views on one of the issues dearest […]

July 1, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

The United Parcel Services Inc. and the Independent Pilots Association, which represents UPS’s more than 2,500 pilots, have come to a new five-year labor agreement. Negotiations over the contract have gone on for the last five years. The IPA will recommend the new contract to its members. If the new contract is ratified and approved, […]

June 17, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) issued an update to their anti-sex-discrimination rules. These rules apply only to federal contractors. Some of the updates, which clarify that the sex discrimination prohibition includes as forbidden adverse treatment based on gender stereotypes and adverse treatment based on an individual’s gender identity, can […]

June 3, 2016
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Cornell University reached a pre-election agreement with Cornell Graduate Students United, an AFT affiliate seeking to represent Cornell graduate students. The agreement will only take effect if the NLRB holds that graduate student teaching and research assistants are “employees” under the NLRA. The NLRB is currently reconsidering its decision in Brown University holding that such […]

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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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