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March 19, 2023
News & Commentary

Will Ebeler

Ninth Circuit reinstates Uber's Equal Protection challenge to California's AB5; reduction in SNAP benefits could lead to "hunger cliff" for low-wage workers; Amazon workers start unionizing campaign at Kentucky facility; ex-Google employees ask company to honor parental leave.

March 15, 2023
News & Commentary

Jacqueline Rayfield

California court finds Proposition 22 legal; Michigan Senate votes to repeal right to work laws; American Airlines pilots authorize strike vote.

February 26, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Uber and Lyft drivers in New York City go on strike, Hyundai divests from an Alabama factory due to child labor violations

How Prop 22’s Electoral Success Foreshadows Future Fight over Sectoral Bargaining

Dec 5, 2022 Will Ebeler

Will fast-food companies use the same deceptive tactics that Uber and Lyft did to stymie sectoral bargaining?

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 […]

August 31, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News & Commentary, public approval of labor unions has reached a record high and Seattle’s independent contractors have new rights starting this Thursday. A Gallup poll released on Tuesday reports that 71% of Americans support labor unions—the highest approval rating since 1965. The trend toward union support started with the onset of the […]

August 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, workers at a Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan became the first to organize one of the chain’s 3,000 locations; U.S. Senator Bob Casey urged the Department of Labor to take action on the use of workplace surveillance technology, including by Amazon; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. […]

August 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and analysis of the effect of remote work on women. Today California farmworkers will march 19 miles […]

July 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

New guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tells employers to take more factors into consideration when choosing to screen employees for Covid-19. Until this change took place, employees could legally screen workers on-site across the board, Bloomberg explains. Now, employers will have to prove that testing employees is a “business necessity,” based on factors […]

July 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, Southern states enact new laws to protect gig companies, the UK rail strike may not be over yet, and Starbucks Workers United creates a national newsletter. State legislatures in Alabama and Georgia have weighed in on the gig economy debate, siding with companies such as Uber and Lyft, Bloomberg reports. […]

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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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March 19, 2023

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February 26, 2023

How Prop 22’s Electoral Success Foreshadows Future Fight over Sectoral Bargaining

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

August 31, 2022

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July 5, 2022