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Prevailing Wage Laws and Bringing Back Accountability to the Contracting Chain

Jun 3, 2021 Nick Wertsch

Manuel had spent all of a blistering Texas summer putting up drywall in the University of Houston’s new $124 million dormitory before he began to believe that his employer, a contractor on the university project, had been paying him nearly a third less than what he was entitled to under the law. During a know-your-rights […]

The Strike Zone—College Athlete Right to Organize Act

May 31, 2021 Alex Blutman

Congressional Democrats have pushed forward another front in the movement to reshape college athletics. A bill introduced on May 27 would make college athletes employees of their respective schools with the right to form unions and bargain collectively. The collegiate athletic system is under attack from three sides. Several suits, most notably O’Bannon v. NCAA […]

Workplace Harassment and the Ministerial Exception

May 28, 2021 Rachel Casper

An in depth article on this topic by the author, titled “When Harassment at Work is Harassment at Church,” is forthcoming in The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (2021). “Ministerial employee of a religious organization” sounds niche: an imam at a mosque, a pastor at a church, a […]

Lawmakers Should Oppose New York’s Uber Bill: Workers need real sectoral bargaining not company unionism

May 26, 2021 Kate Andrias, Mike Firestone and Benjamin Sachs

Uber and other gig companies are rushing to pass a bill in the final weeks of Albany’s legislative session that would undermine labor standards for the growing millions of app-based workers, the majority of whom are immigrants and people of color. The companies, in an attempt to harness the interest among worker advocates in “sectoral […]

The “Dignity of Work,” its Racist Roots, and How it’s Threatening Reform

May 26, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

“Dignity of work” rhetoric has long been used to justify conditioning welfare assistance and tax relief on engagement in wage labor. The argument goes: “[w]ork is good, more of it is better and policy should be a conveyor belt from the moral torpor of idleness to the dignity of wage labor.” This argument has been […]

The Strike Zone—May 24, 2021

May 24, 2021 Alex Blutman

Welcome to The Strike Zone, a new biweekly feature dedicated to labor and employment developments in the world of sports. To kickoff this initial installment, we turn first to the National Football League (“NFL”). In response to a concerted effort by the National Football League Players Association (“NFLPA”) to encourage players to forego voluntary offseason […]

The NLRB’s unjustified expansion of Catholic Bishop is a threat to all employees at religious institutions.

May 24, 2021 Ross Slaughter

Should workers lose the protections of labor law simply because they work for religious organizations? As Jenny explained, the Supreme Court has become increasingly receptive to employers’ religious objections to laws governing the workplace. But at least these claims require employers to point to a specific religious exercise that the law burdens. It is something […]

Sectoral Bargaining is Coming to New Zealand

May 21, 2021 Pauline Bomball

In a recent post on this blog, Dr David Madland examined the resurgence of interest in sectoral collective bargaining in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Support for sectoral bargaining has also gained traction in New Zealand in recent years, culminating in a proposal, by the New Zealand government, for the implementation […]

To Protect Concerted Activity, the NLRB Should Overturn Alstate

May 19, 2021 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

“Employees shall have the right . . . to engage in . . . concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.” So reads Section 7 of the NLRA. But what counts as “concerted” activity? And what kinds of activities are for the purpose of “mutual aid or protection”? […]

On Work: What It Does to Us and What We Can Do About It

May 17, 2021 Fred Wang

Echoing Marx, it was Mark Fisher who likened capitalism’s core nature to that of an “abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker… [where] the living flesh it converts into dead labour is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” For Fisher, the figure of the zombie represents today’s homo economicus—the human subject under capitalism […]

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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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Prevailing Wage Laws and Bringing Back Accountability to the Contracting Chain

The Strike Zone—College Athlete Right to Organize Act

Workplace Harassment and the Ministerial Exception

Lawmakers Should Oppose New York’s Uber Bill: Workers need real sectoral bargaining not company unionism

The “Dignity of Work,” its Racist Roots, and How it’s Threatening Reform

The Strike Zone—May 24, 2021

The NLRB’s unjustified expansion of Catholic Bishop is a threat to all employees at religious institutions.

Sectoral Bargaining is Coming to New Zealand

To Protect Concerted Activity, the NLRB Should Overturn Alstate

On Work: What It Does to Us and What We Can Do About It