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June 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the country, kicked off on Sunday in Philadelphia and wraps up later today. The quadrennial convention presents a democratic forum in which delegates representing the AFL-CIO’s dozens of affiliated unions throughout the […]

June 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In today’s labor news, Microsoft and the CWA announce an historic labor neutrality agreement, Dollar General workers are raising their voices, and workers at two midwest Starbucks locations have joined the CMRJB. CWA announced yesterday that it had reached a labor neutrality agreement with Microsoft as it seeks to close its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. […]

June 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news & commentary, the Starbucks union says CEO Howard Schultz violated labor laws, a nonprofit pushes Tesla to respect union rights, and a WaPo report covers Chris Smalls, one of the Amazon warehouse organizers who “made unionizing cool as fuck.” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made headlines last week when, in a public interview […]

June 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The Government Accountability Office released a trio of reports about the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system and its successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reports found that black applicants for UI were half as likely to receive benefits as white applicants. The reports also found that UI contributed to creating economic stability during […]

June 9, 2022
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Miriam Shestack

In today’s news & commentary, upcoming arguments and a setback for Starbucks workers, teachers unions speak out about gun control, new privacy laws in California, and unions around the world stand up for Belarussian union leaders. A Federal Judge hears arguments today on a petition from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking reinstatement […]

June 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

Women are increasingly taking on leadership roles at every level of the labor movement, according to reporting from USA Today in partnership with The 19th. During the pandemic, women have made up an outsized number of essential workers, workers who lost their jobs, and workers who faced unstable family care situations. Ashley Manning, a Ralphs […]

June 7, 2022
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Travis Lavenski

In today’s news and commentary, the Supreme Court unanimously sides with a Southwest Airlines worker in an FAA dispute; Genwa workers in Los Angeles win their first contract; and Planned Parenthood opposes unionization in Massachusetts. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Southwest Airlines employee Latrice Saxon on Monday in a case involving the […]

June 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news & commentary, labor market gains remain uneven across sectors and subgroups, and Apple Store employees in Maryland organize ahead of a June 15th union election. On June 6, Axios reported that the pandemic has significantly changed the composition of the U.S. labor market. Although “roughly 96% of jobs lost during the pandemic […]

June 5, 2022
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Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, Workers United alleged that Starbucks illegally retaliated against employees’ union activity by closing a store; New York lawmakers passed a bill targeting Amazon’s use of production quotas in its warehouses; and Microsoft president Brad Smith announced new principles for the company’s engagement with organized labor. On June 3, Bloomberg […]

June 3, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary, lots of Starbucks organizing: 100 Starbucks locations unionized, commentary on the Workers United organizing model, and NLRB hearings on Starbucks ULPs; and separately, a lawsuit against the DOL for its March guidance asking 401(k) plan administers to exercise caution before offering cryptocurrency investments. 100 Starbucks locations have now unionized. When […]

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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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