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March 6, 2025
News & Commentary

Divya Nimmagadda

A federal judge hears Wilcox's challenge to her NLRB removal and the FTC announces a "Joint Labor Task Force."

March 4, 2025
News & Commentary

Anjali Katta

In today’s news and commentary, the Tennessee Drivers Union allegedly faces retaliation for organizing, major hospital groups are hit with a wage suppression lawsuit, and updates from Capitol Hill. The Tennessee Drivers Union announced on social media that its members are facing retaliation from Uber and Lyft for their rideshare organizing activities. Specifically, 34 members […]

February 20, 2025
News & Commentary

Divya Nimmagadda

President Trump's labor secretary pick retreats from some of her pro-labor stances during Senate confirmation hearing and Lynn Rhinehart discusses implications of NLRB and other agency removals.

February 6, 2025
News & Commentary

Divya Nimmagadda

Gwynne Wilcox files lawsuit challenging her removal from the NLRB, and unions file a lawsuit challenging DOJE's request to access Department of Labor information.

January 23, 2025
News & Commentary

Divya Nimmagadda

The new administration is taking aim at federal DEI programs and has rolled back a historic anti-discrimination measure.

The Sexism Behind Reality TV Performers’ Lack of Workers’ Rights

Jan 17, 2025 Hannah Finnie

Reality TV performers on the popular Netflix dating show “Love Is Blind” are used to being in the spotlight. Their storylines regularly generate national debates about love, betrayal, and commitment. But last month, they made national news for a different reason: labor rights. In response to labor and employment law claims filed by a former […]

Hawley Calls for a “Pro-Worker Framework”

Jan 10, 2025 Benjamin Sachs

Republican Senator Josh Hawley has circulated a document titled “A Pro-Worker Framework for the 119th Congress.” The document, available on Punchbowl News, lays out a set of proposals for labor law reform. The proposals, couched in broad terms and not in legislative language, include: requiring employers to post notices of NLRA rights and to affirmatively […]

January 4, 2025
News & Commentary

Anjali Katta

In today’s news and commentary, Biden blocks the acquisition of U.S. Steel, the Third Circuit curbs NLRB remedial power, and DOL’s Wage and Hour Division’s year in review. President Biden announced that he would block a $15 billion dollar take over of U.S. Steel by the Japanese company Nippon Steel, citing national security concerns over […]

Proving What Happened Behind Closed Doors

Dec 27, 2024 Andrew Strom

Somehow, we have reached a point where it is conceivable that the Supreme Court might discover after 90 years that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. But, while the NLRB faces this existential threat, other judges are using traditional tools to make it harder for workers to obtain justice. One […]

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

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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The Sexism Behind Reality TV Performers’ Lack of Workers’ Rights

Hawley Calls for a “Pro-Worker Framework”

January 4, 2025

Proving What Happened Behind Closed Doors

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