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October 7, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

The latest Federal Reserve labor market conditions index has indicated that labor market conditions picked up last month – a metric that may push the Fed to raise interest rates sooner than previously anticipated. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the index – developed by Federal Reserve economists and first unveiled last May – rose 2.5 points […]

October 6, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

A new survey released on Tuesday showed that 83% of restaurant patrons support raising the federal minimum wage and adjusting it annually for inflation. Twelve percent of survey participants said they were business owners, and of that group, 90% supported raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. Reuters reports that raising the minimum wage had “broad […]

October 5, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced that it will form a local chapter in Tuscalossa, Alabama to represent Mercedes-Benz’s workers at the Daimler AG assembly plant. About 3,400 full-time workers and 1,000 temporary workers help to build crossovers and sport-utility vehicles at the Tuscalossa plant. UAW plans to ask the company to recognize Local 112 without a […]

October 3, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito plans to introduce a bill to challenge federal immigration detainers in New York City. Detainers are used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to transfer inmates from prisons directly into federal immigration custody. When local law enforcement agencies honor detainers, inmates are oftentimes detained for two days longer than they otherwise […]

October 2, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

In immigration news, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would provide legal representation to some unaccompanied minors in deportation cases, according to the New York Times. This is the first time HHS has directly funded attorneys for unaccompanied minors. The program will cost $9 million over two years. The Washington Post […]

October 1, 2014
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Scott Hochberg

The New York Times reports that NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio signed an executive order on Tuesday that expanded the city’s living wage law, “covering thousands of previously exempt workers and raising the hourly wage itself, to $13.13 from $11.90, for workers who do not receive benefits.” The order covers employees of commercial tenants on projects that […]

September 30, 2014
News & Commentary

Dylan Rubin

The UAW announced that it has signed a letter of intent with two top German labor groups to jointly organize the Volkswagen AG assembly plant in Chattanooga. According to Reuters, the UAW seeks to obtain exclusive majority status and recognition of this by Volkswagen at the automaker’s sole U.S. plant. The letter outlining this agreement was signed on September […]

September 29, 2014
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

A Los Angeles Times editorial analyzes the possible effects of Senator Lamar Alexander’s (R-TN) NLRB Reform Act, which would increase the size of the National Labor Relations Board from five to six members. The new NLRB would consist of three Democrats and three Republicans, each nominated by the president after consultation with the Senate leader from […]

September 28, 2014
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Rachel Homer

The New York Times reports that Air France’s pilots union has ended its 14-day strike. The pilots went on strike two weeks ago over the proposed labor conditions for Air France’s new low-cost affiliated airline, Transavia. The strike had grounded nearly half of Air France’s flights. After recent negotiations, there is still no deal, but the […]

September 26, 2014
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

This week, the U.S. Department of Labor posted a video that compares the paid leave policies of the U.S. with other nations, highlighting that the U.S. is one of the only nations in the world with no paid maturity leave. In a country with more than 30 million working families with young children and more […]

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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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