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Fox v. Netflix and Injunctions in Hollywood

May 15, 2019 Hillary Black

As Netflix evolved from a streaming platform to a producer of original films and series, it needed to hire executives with experience developing and marketing original programming. To find such talent, Netflix looked to the ranks of studios like Twentieth Century Fox. When two Fox executives left to work for Netflix in 2016, Fox sued […]

Writers v. Agents: A Fight that Could Change Hollywood

May 13, 2019 Amy Maurer

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Association of Talent Agents (ATA) are currently engaged in a dispute over conflicts of interest that has the potential to completely change how the entertainment industry operates. The WGA is a union representing 13,000 writers across the country, with a focus on representing writers in film and […]

Trump NLRB Enables Volkswagen’s Chutzpah

May 10, 2019 Andrew Strom

Volkswagen has tried to kill its employees’ union organizing drive in a remarkably brazen fashion, and all too predictably, the Trump Labor Board has acted as its accomplice. Back in 2015, after a failed attempt to organize all 1,300 production and maintenance workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the United Auto Workers (UAW) […]

Olympic Athletes Explore Collective Power Options

May 9, 2019 Heylee Bernstein

In February, the Athlete’s Advisory Council, a group composed of US Olympic athletes, met with the United States Olympic Committee. The AAC presented a new idea to increase athletes’ voice and power within the USOC: unionization. But unionization is not the AAC’s only avenue to collective power, and, over the next few months, the AAC […]

The Digitalization of Day Labor as Gig Work

May 7, 2019 Veena Dubal

With the so-called “uberization” of work, any number of gig companies may be deserving of “the most scandalous” award. Perhaps the dubious honor should go to Uber itself which has sparked the imagination of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs the world over, inspiring them to use the guise of technology to transform traditional low-wage labor into […]

Uber, Overtime, and the Taxicab Exemption

May 6, 2019 Randon Herrera

As the debate over the employment status of Uber drivers continues, one employment benefit raises a set of questions not presented by the others: overtime pay. Uber has suggested that if it is forced to reclassify its drivers as employees, it will cap its drivers’ hours to escape having to pay time-and-a-half for overtime work. It […]

Is Riot Games in Violation of the NLRA for Funding its Own Union?

May 1, 2019 Minnie Che

The emergence of esports as a new professional career In 1972, the world’s first videogame tournament was held at Stanford University with a year’s subscription to “Rolling Stone” as the first place prize. In 2018, New York’s Barclays Center sold out its 20,000-seat arena for the first ever Overwatch League Grand Finals with $1 million […]

Employee Surveillance

Apr 29, 2019 Phoebe Bodurtha

“If Privacy Matters in Your Life, It Should Matter to the Phone Your Life is On. Privacy. That’s iPhone.” The focus of Apple’s latest ad campaign is particularly ironic in light of recent news that Apple doesn’t hold employers to the same privacy standards as other iPhone app developers. Simply put, Apple gives employers way […]

Does the First Amendment’s Ban on Political Patronage Apply to Appointed State Judges?

Apr 26, 2019 Nathaniel Levy

A recent Third Circuit decision applies the case law on public employees and the First Amendment to appointed state judges, and raises interesting questions about how to design a judicial selection system that both respects the First Amendment and promotes courts’ capacity to act as an independent check on their co-equal branches. The Delaware constitution […]

The Bogus Justification for Worker Non-Compete Clauses

Apr 24, 2019 Sandeep Vaheesan

Even as employers have deprived nearly 30 million workers of the freedom to leave using non-compete clauses, they and their advocates insist that non-competes promote the public good. The case for robbing workers of the freedom to earn a living where they want goes as follows. Employers often invest in job training, disclose trade secrets […]

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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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Fox v. Netflix and Injunctions in Hollywood

Writers v. Agents: A Fight that Could Change Hollywood

Trump NLRB Enables Volkswagen’s Chutzpah

Olympic Athletes Explore Collective Power Options

The Digitalization of Day Labor as Gig Work

Uber, Overtime, and the Taxicab Exemption

Is Riot Games in Violation of the NLRA for Funding its Own Union?

Employee Surveillance

Does the First Amendment’s Ban on Political Patronage Apply to Appointed State Judges?

The Bogus Justification for Worker Non-Compete Clauses