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August 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In a move to express solidarity with Uber Drivers, Uniting Church told its workers yesterday to stop using Uber, citing the company’s “unethical foundations.” The Church is the largest non-government provider of services to the community in all of Australia. The Church pointed to the recent “Uber Files” report and Uber’s practices of mistreating its […]

July 26, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

A Trader Joe’s in Hadley, Massachusetts may soon become the first unionized Trader Joe’s in the nation, as a vote date has been set for tomorrow, July 27th. Over the weekend, union organizers held a rally outside their store which drew over 100 supporters. Sarah Yosef, a TJ crew member and union organizer, made a […]

July 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Starbucks closes some newly-unionized stores among others, Gerald McEntee – longtime AFSCME president – dies at 87, and rising minimum wages across cities help protect workers from inflation. SB Workers United is decrying an announcement today by Starbucks that it will close five stores across Seattle citing “safety concerns.” The stores reportedly experience high crime […]

June 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Workers protest stagnating wages despite inflation, tragedy struck yesterday in Texas as 46 people were found dead in a truck after seeking better lives for themselves and their families, and FairHotel launched a tool to find unionized hotels at which to stay. ABCnews reports on a wave of protests by workers around the world responding […]

May 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, Amazon terminates two union-supporting employees at JFK8; Michigan Starbucks workers receive a union election date; TIME Magazine workers threaten to strike; and Tudor’s Biscuit World hit with a complaint from the NLRB. Amazon continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons after the Amazon Labor Union’s historic win at JFK8 […]

April 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

As labor organizing spreads rapidly across the country, recent profiles show just how workers get started, the methods they are using, and what inspired their actions. As OnLabor has previously covered here and here, social media has become a powerful organizing tool for workers across industries. The NYTimes today profiled a worker at one of […]

April 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Tala Doumani

California’s Fair Employment and Housing Council (FEHC) recently drafted a bill to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) and other related technologies used by employers in recruiting, hiring, and other employment decisions comply with anti-discrimination laws. In a working draft released to the public, the bill states that “the use of and reliance upon automated-decision systems that […]

April 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In a slow day for labor news after the excitement over the weekend, A New York City law that requires employers to disclose salary rangers on job postings will go into effect May 15, 2022, JDSupra reports. Enforcement will be handled by the City Commission on Human Rights. Violations can result in up to $125,000 […]

March 29, 2022
News & Commentary

Tala Doumani

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Southwest Airlines’s appeal to reverse a 7th Circuit ruling that held its workers suing the airline for overtime pay were exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). The case, Southwest Airlines Co v. Saxon, is set to settle a circuit court split on how attenuated baggage […]

March 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Following months of litigation in front of the NLRB, Google has settled its case with four former Google engineers over claims it fired them for union organizing. The terms of the settlement are undisclosed, but over the past months the administrative law judge had ordered Google to produce over 1,500 documents it had previously sought […]

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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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