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A Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing

Nov 16, 2022 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

If Amazon can move its business online, then labor law requires that the union be able to move its picket line online too.

Why Hire Labor Spies When Courts Will Do the Union-Busting for You?

Oct 31, 2022 Catherine Fisk

An outrageous decision ordering Starbucks union to turn over confidential organizing information is an attack on workers and unions.

The Ideal ‘Right to Strike’ Would Merge the Strengths of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Law Models

Oct 26, 2022 David Doorey

Canadian and U.S. labor law can each learn from the other about how to better protect workers' right to strike

Striketober Must Have Really Scared the Supreme Court

Oct 25, 2022 Andrew Strom

Worker strikes in the U.S. are already rare measures of last resort. The Supreme Court might decide to discourage them even further.

Glacier’s Employer-Only Preemption Reform

Oct 24, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

What the next big Supreme Court labor case means for workers' right to strike — and what Congress can do about it.

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

Sep 27, 2022 Sharon Block

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agencies charged with setting employment standards for the fair treatment of the nation’s workforce. Instead, the Federal Trade Commission made […]

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

For those of us who support unions, we have an unfamiliar feeling this Labor Day. It’s a feeling of hope and celebration. This is unfamiliar territory because union organizing has been in a free fall for decades now. But we can smile this Labor Day because American workers have delivered a lot to celebrate and, […]

Do Union Logos Really Interfere with Patient Care?

Aug 31, 2022 Andrew Strom

President Biden’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board have finally started overruling the disastrous anti-worker decisions issued by the Trump Board. In Tesla, Inc., the NLRB overruled a Trump-era decision and clarified that an employer must always demonstrate “special circumstances” to justify limits on workers’ right to display union insignia. Unfortunately, in their zeal […]

The Flexibility to Be Paid in Chicken Sandwiches

Aug 8, 2022 Charlotte Garden

Last week, a Chick-fil-A franchise in Hendersonville, North Carolina made news by asking for “volunteers” to work at the store’s drive-through window at a rate of five entrees (and zero dollars) per hour worked. A store representative justified the arrangement by claiming “people who sign up for this chose it voluntarily.” This practice likely violates […]

A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

Jul 29, 2022 David Doorey

The recent wave of union organizing in the service sector has raised hopes that a fundamental transformation is occurring in the United States that will revitalize collective bargaining and bring millions of young workers into the labor movement. At the epicentre of this movement is a mass campaign to organize Starbucks’s employees. As of this […]

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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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A Path Forward for Amazon Workers: Digital Picketing

Why Hire Labor Spies When Courts Will Do the Union-Busting for You?

The Ideal ‘Right to Strike’ Would Merge the Strengths of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Law Models

Striketober Must Have Really Scared the Supreme Court

Glacier’s Employer-Only Preemption Reform

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Do Union Logos Really Interfere with Patient Care?

The Flexibility to Be Paid in Chicken Sandwiches

A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining