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September 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News and Commentary: Congressional staffers form the first-ever union, more Congressional offices hold union elections, and the last remaining rail union signs a tentative agreement. Staffers in the office of Democratic Congressmember Andy Levin voted unanimously to unionize. While staffers voted last week, the union announced the results on Monday. This marks the […]

August 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, analysis on Starbucks’s “faux”-progressivism, waning worker leverage in the labor market, and what pharmacy work has to say about upper-middle-income work in general. Amidst a wave of unionizing activity, Starbucks — long heralded as one of the rare “progressive” American corporations — is showing its true profit-first colors, Steven Greenhouse argues in […]

July 18, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: a labor reporter analyzes the factors driving the recent spike in union organizing; workers increasingly pick up extra jobs to pay for gas and food; conflicting data may show early signs of a weakening labor market; restaurant industry employment lags behind pre-pandemic levels; and lagging enforcement of transit worker protections […]

Employers’ Commitments to Providing Abortion Access for Employees Underscore the Need for Unions

Jul 1, 2022 Swap Agrawal

Reproductive justice organizations have not been alone in responding to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe in its decision in Dobbs last week — employers have also made moves to secure abortion access for their employees. Specifically, many companies have committed to financially assisting employees who now have to travel out of their state to […]

June 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, employers react to Dobbs with criticism, internal policy change, or silence. Employers — in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overrule Roe v. Wade — are offering to reimburse travel expenses for employees who cross state lines to access safe, legal abortions. Companies such as Disney […]

Ready Employee One: Data Privacy Within the Metaverse

Jun 24, 2022 Eric Jang

Remote work is here to stay. Although the COVID-19 pandemic that necessitated the Work-From-Home (WFH) revolution is on its way out (fingers crossed), 83% of employees and 63% of employers have expressed a desire for a hybrid model for the future: working both at the office and remotely from home depending on individual needs. The […]

June 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, internal email reveals that a leader in Starbucks’s union-busting campaign was terminated by the company, federal firefighters get a pay raise, and leftist-candidate Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian Presidential election. An internal company email has revealed that Rossann Williams, the former president of Starbucks North America and key figure in […]

Cannabis Legislation: Labor Rights and Equity

Jun 20, 2022 Eric Jang

The legal cannabis industry is currently one of the fastest-growing employers in the U.S. Since 2017, the number of Americans working with cannabis has grown each year by at least 27%. In just the last year alone, the industry grew by 33% and now employs up to 428,000 American workers. Part of the reason for […]

Can Fintech Put Payroll Data to Work for Workers?

Jun 13, 2022 Miriam Shestack

Low-wage workers often have trouble accessing credit because they either have poor credit scores or, as is the case for many immigrant workers, no credit score at all. Many turn to payday lenders offering short term loans to those locked out of the mainstream credit system at a steep cost. Payday loans are considered predatory […]

June 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The Government Accountability Office released a trio of reports about the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system and its successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reports found that black applicants for UI were half as likely to receive benefits as white applicants. The reports also found that UI contributed to creating economic stability during […]

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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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September 28, 2022

August 22, 2022

July 18, 2022

Employers’ Commitments to Providing Abortion Access for Employees Underscore the Need for Unions

June 27, 2022

Ready Employee One: Data Privacy Within the Metaverse

June 21, 2022

Cannabis Legislation: Labor Rights and Equity

Can Fintech Put Payroll Data to Work for Workers?

June 10, 2022