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November 26, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

Mother Jones explains San Francisco’s new law that will sharply curtail “on call” scheduling in the city’s major retailers. The new law requires employers to post schedules at least two weeks in advance and pay employees whose shifts are cancelled at the last minute. In addition, employers must offer available shifts to existing employees before […]

November 25, 2014
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

Union leaders issued statements following last night’s release of the Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot and killed unarmed black youth Michael Brown in Ferguson more than three months ago. SEIU President Mary Kay Henry: “Black lives matter. Brown lives matter. All lives matter. The dream […]

November 24, 2014
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Emily Cusick

Over the weekend, President Obama defended the legal reasoning behind his immigration executive action, arguing that he has been “very restrained” in his use of executive authority. President Obama’s interview aired Sunday on the ABC News program “This Week,” where he said that both Democratic and Republican presidents had previously taken similar executive actions. “The fact […]

November 23, 2014
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

The New York Times profiled the successful efforts of a nonunion worker advocacy group, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, to organize a successful campaign to raise the minimum wage of hotel workers in Los Angeles to $15.37 an hour. The article details how Laane planned the campaign, built a coalition of dozens […]

November 21, 2014
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Mark Kaltenbach

President Obama unveiled the details of his long-awaited executive action on immigration last night. The provisions directly affecting the most people are deferred deportations for (1) parents of legal residents and (2) an expanded number of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. The President’s plan makes several other changes whose impact, […]

November 20, 2014
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Dylan Rubin

This post is part of an ongoing of series on the fast food organizing movement. You can read all our Fast Food News here. Bloomberg Law reports that National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin told House Education and the Workforce Committee leaders in a Nov. 4 letter that the agency has no open cases that turn […]

November 20, 2014
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

The bus drivers who shuttle Facebook employees to and from work voted to join Teamsters Local 853, the New York Times reports. The drivers main concerns are an inadequate hourly pay rate and a split shift schedule. Loop Transportation, the contractor which employs the workers, said it would respect the election results. Unions are beginning […]

November 19, 2014
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Daniel Crossen

According to the Huffington Post Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative George Miller held a forum on Capitol Hill yesterday, to which they invited representatives of OUR Walmart, a worker group that has advocated for unionization and living wages at the nation’s largest retailer. The event was part of an attempt to build support for “legislation […]

November 18, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

On Monday, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez visited Boston and participated in panel discussions on Massachusetts’ minimum wage and sick leave policies. (Earlier this month, Massachusetts passed a referendum requiring businesses with 11 or more workers to let employees earn up to 40 hours of paid sick time per year; in June, it raised the minimum wage to $11/hour […]

November 17, 2014
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Dylan Rubin

This post is part of an ongoing of series on the fast food organizing movement. You can read all our Fast Food News here. The Washington Post reports that restaurant hiring is growing twice as fast as the labor market, all while fewer Americans are dining out. Most of the jobs are the part-time, lower-wage work, […]

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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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