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April 25, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news & commentary, unions, unions, unions! Union voting at a second Staten Island Amazon warehouse begins, Amazon Labor Union organizers talk about how they made history, and Activision game testers will vote next month on unionizing. Voting began this morning at LDJ5, the second Staten Island Amazon warehouse to hold a union vote […]

National Parks Are Swamped, But the Park Service Faces Mountainous Employment Crises

Apr 20, 2022 Grace Bennett

Visitation at the country’s national parks has increased steadily over the past decade. In the last year, however, visitation rates at many of the most popular parks have skyrocketed. Forty-four parks set visitation records in 2021. Yellowstone National Park — one of the country’s most popular — welcomed 800,000 more visitors in 2021 than 2019. […]

April 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

As labor organizing spreads rapidly across the country, recent profiles show just how workers get started, the methods they are using, and what inspired their actions. As OnLabor has previously covered here and here, social media has become a powerful organizing tool for workers across industries. The NYTimes today profiled a worker at one of […]

April 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary: the NLRB plans to accuse Starbucks of unlawful firings; an economist explains how antitrust law can protect worker power; mental health–based employment bias claims are on the rise; and more on the NLRB GC’s memo against “captive audience” meetings. The NLRB is taking legal action against Starbucks for unlawfully firing […]

The SLRP Solution: Student Loan Repayment Plans in the Wake of the Great Resignation

Apr 11, 2022 Chinmay G. Pandit

401(k) retirement matching, wellness stipends, childcare facilities, and more. In the wake of the Great Resignation, employers are assembling comprehensive benefits packages in a desperate effort to entice and retain talented employees. Now, to further differentiate themselves, some companies are attempting to address a widespread employee concern that 46 million Americans face today: student-loan debt. […]

Who Foots the Bill for Workers to Access Their Wages as They Earn Them?

Apr 4, 2022 Hannah Hubbard

“We are rewriting the invisible rules of money,” claims DailyPay, a financial technology (or “fintech”) company that pairs with participating employers’ payroll systems to permit hourly employees to access earned wages prior to their scheduled payday. According to PitchBook (a company that provides capital market and firm data to would-be investors), DailyPay’s services are “intended […]

The Case for Unemployment Insurance for Incarcerated Workers

Mar 23, 2022 Isabelle Holt

Incarcerated workers harvest corn, peppers, and melons in Colorado, fight wildfires in California, clean the governor’s mansion in Nebraska, and manufacture everything from mattresses to body armor. Just like other employers, the Bureau of Prisons sets inmate-worker job descriptions, pay grades, and performance standards for federal prisons, and state prison systems do the same. Like […]

An Executive Order on Cryptocurrency: A Positive Sign for Pension Funds

Mar 15, 2022 Chinmay G. Pandit

Public pension funds and other institutional investors rejoiced earlier this week after President Biden signed a landmark executive order directing federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of digital currencies, with the ultimate goal of building a clear, durable, and conducive regulatory framework for the roughly $2 trillion industry. The executive order, which represents the […]

March 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Forced arbitration denies workers their day in court. Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court has made it increasingly difficult for workers to avoid arbitration. This month, the Court will hear three more cases involving arbitration-related disputes. The first — Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. — concerns whether an employee must make an additional showing of […]

March 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Rising gas prices due to crisis in Ukraine are affecting Uber and Lyft driver’s take-home pay, Bloomberg reports. Drivers, who take on the cost of gas for rides themselves, are reporting that refilling their tanks can take as much as 60% of their take-home pay, up from 10% for some drivers. “I’m barely breaking even […]

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April 25, 2022

National Parks Are Swamped, But the Park Service Faces Mountainous Employment Crises

April 19, 2022

April 11, 2022

The SLRP Solution: Student Loan Repayment Plans in the Wake of the Great Resignation

Who Foots the Bill for Workers to Access Their Wages as They Earn Them?

The Case for Unemployment Insurance for Incarcerated Workers

An Executive Order on Cryptocurrency: A Positive Sign for Pension Funds

March 14, 2022

March 8, 2022