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What the OnlyFans Saga Says About Financial Institutions’ Power Over Sex Workers

Oct 6, 2021 Gwendolyn Gissendanner

On August 19th, OnlyFans—a London-based company popularized for its subscription-based user content—announced its plan to ban media that “shows, promotes, advertises, or refers to real or simulated sex.” While the site later suspended its plans after backlash from sex workers, speech, and labor organizations, the impact of the decision, and pressures from its financial backers, […]

Joy Silk Can’t Help the Workers in Bessemer. What Can?

Oct 4, 2021 Jon Levitan

The Joy Silk doctrine—which would raise the penalty for employers who commit unfair labor practices in the run-up to a representation election, and thus provide a powerful deterrent—is poised for a comeback. The new NLRB General Counsel, Jennfier Abruzzo, has signaled that she intends to revive the 70 year-old doctrine. Joy Silk requires that when […]

NLRB General Counsel on Players at Academic Institutions

Sep 29, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

As Fred reported earlier this morning, Board GC Abruzzo has released a memo in which she states her position that “the scholarship football players at issue in Northwestern University, and similarly situated Players at Academic Institutions, are employees under the Act.” This is yet another huge development in U.S. labor law, and one with obviously […]

Legal Levers: Deterring Labor Abuses at Mega-Sporting Events

Sep 28, 2021 Alex Blutman

Mega-sporting events are rife with human rights abuses, but the Tokyo Olympics and Qatar World Cup have focused the spotlight on the labor violations and abuses suffered by workers at these events. Laborers in Tokyo suffered mistreatment, overwork, low wages, and dangerous working conditions. In Qatar, workers have been subject to debt-inducing recruitment fees, lies […]

The Strike Zone—September 27, 2021

Sep 27, 2021 Alex Blutman

A couple of weeks after publishing an open letter requesting that the men’s and women’s national team’s unions agree to a plan that would equalize the FIFA World Cup prize money distributed to the federation, U.S. Soccer announced that it had offered the respective unions identical proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement. The U.S. […]

Litigation Since Janus: A Preliminary Assessment

Sep 21, 2021 Maddy Joseph

After the Supreme Court announced in Janus that the First Amendment prohibits mandatory agency fees in the public sector, plaintiffs supported by right-to-work groups flooded the courts with related claims. At the time, we feared that these plaintiffs, aided by an increasingly sympathetic judiciary, would succeed in draining union coffers and weakening labor laws. But […]

On Labor Day, Millions Fall Through the Unemployment Safety Net

Sep 15, 2021 Kevin Vazquez

Last week, on Labor Day, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families lost federal unemployment benefits, and nearly three million more had their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week. The Biden administration, despite the entreaties of many workers, activists, labor unions, and other organizations, allowed three key pandemic-era federal unemployment programs – Pandemic […]

The Strike Zone—September 13, 2021

Sep 13, 2021 Alex Blutman

With the wide distribution of the vaccine, new COVID-19 protocols negotiated by the professional leagues and their union counterparts are drawing a stark line between vaccinated and unvaccinated players. In the NBA, unvaccinated players are subject to a host of additional restrictions meant to decrease the chance of coronavirus transmission: their lockers will be situated […]

Featured in Dems’ Newest Budget Draft: A Major Labor Law Proposal

Sep 9, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, Democrats on the House Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) released a completed draft for its part of Congress’s upcoming reconciliation bill. Along with other blockbuster proposals, the Committee’s $450 billion package includes a number of provisions designed to raise federal revenues by imposing civil penalties on employers who violate federal labor […]

Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies

Sep 8, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

Today, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released a highly relevant and impactful memo on the office’s intent to seek a rather stunning new array of remedies in unfair labor practice cases. As I wrote about the last GC memo, if the Board does a fraction of the things Abruzzo calls for […]

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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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What the OnlyFans Saga Says About Financial Institutions’ Power Over Sex Workers

Joy Silk Can’t Help the Workers in Bessemer. What Can?

NLRB General Counsel on Players at Academic Institutions

Legal Levers: Deterring Labor Abuses at Mega-Sporting Events

The Strike Zone—September 27, 2021

Litigation Since Janus: A Preliminary Assessment

On Labor Day, Millions Fall Through the Unemployment Safety Net

The Strike Zone—September 13, 2021

Featured in Dems’ Newest Budget Draft: A Major Labor Law Proposal

Understanding the New NLRB General Counsel Memo on Remedies