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A Primer on Remedial Workplace Affirmative Action

May 19, 2020 Ryan H. Nelson

When affirmative action makes headlines, it usually concerns a lawsuit challenging the race-conscious admissions process of a college or university that is trying to diversify its student body. Prominent examples include last fall’s decision that Harvard College’s race-conscious admissions process did not violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Supreme […]

Recreational Marijuana Use: When the Law Says Yes but the Job Says No

Mar 13, 2020 Rylee Pinter

While eleven states have legalized recreational marijuana and thirty-three have legalized medical marijuana, federal law stands to the contrary. The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) criminalizes the use of marijuana as a federal schedule 1 substance. This tension between federal and state law has created an unpredictable landscape for employees who use marijuana. As Amy Mauer […]

A Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy

Jan 23, 2020 Benjamin Sachs

After eighteen months of highly collaborative work involving over seventy academics, organizers, lawyers, and students from around the world, we released this morning the report and recommendations of the Clean Slate for Worker Power project. You can learn all about the project at cleanslateworkerpower.org. Our full Report is available here, and the Executive Summary here. […]

Happy Holidays From OnLabor!

Dec 25, 2019 Sejal Singh

Happy Holidays! Here at OnLabor, we believe that all workers deserve time off — so we’ll be taking some time off ourselves over the holidays, and pausing our daily News & Commentary posts for the next week. News & Commentary will be back in the new year. In the meantime, check out some of our […]

How Labor Law Could Help – Not Hinder – Tackling Big Problems

Dec 6, 2019 Sharon Block

As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, the question of the role of labor in finding solutions also becomes more urgent. As OnLabor has tracked, significant parts of the labor movement have expressed support for the climate fight. Labor groups joined the Global Climate Strikes this fall. Numerous alliances between labor and environmentalists have […]

Rise Up Retail Helps Workers Win Severance

Jun 5, 2019 Matthew Carrieri

On September 18, 2017, Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy. The toy retailer had been in decline since at least 2000, but ran into real trouble after a consortium of private equity and real estate firms bought the ailing private company in 2005 in a $6.6 billion leveraged buy-out. The group intended to restructure the […]

Garcetti’s Impact on Teachers

Jun 3, 2019 Nathaniel Levy

The Supreme Court’s First Amendment decision in Garcetti (2006), which concerned the speech of public employees, has since been applied in several cases concerning public school teachers. Although some have been correctly decided, the reasoning lower courts have adopted dangerously suggests that virtually all teacher speech in schools and to students—whether made in the classroom, […]

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 […]

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 […]

April 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The March jobs report revealed that the U.S. added 196,000 jobs last month, exceeding forecasts and demonstrating recovery from February’s slowdown. The numbers in Friday’s monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate strong, sustainable economic growth. Unemployment remains at 3.8%. The New York Times explains that wage gains – March 2019’s hourly wages […]

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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 Primer on Remedial Workplace Affirmative Action

Recreational Marijuana Use: When the Law Says Yes but the Job Says No

A Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy

Happy Holidays From OnLabor!

How Labor Law Could Help – Not Hinder – Tackling Big Problems

Rise Up Retail Helps Workers Win Severance

Garcetti’s Impact on Teachers

Fox v. Netflix and Injunctions in Hollywood

The Bogus Justification for Worker Non-Compete Clauses

April 7, 2019