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January 11, 2015
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

In a report released on Friday, the Department of Labor announced that 2.95 million jobs were added in 2014 and the national unemployment rate decreased to 5.6 percent in December from 5.8 percent in November. Job creation took place largely in temporary help, construction, professional services, transportations, and hospitality. Although many hailed the report as […]

January 9, 2015
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Julina Guo

The president of UAW Local 42 at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga announced planned meetings with company executives yesterday. Politico reports that this would be the “first time the union has conferred formally with executives” under the auto manufacturer’s work councils. A recent audit revealed that at least 45 percent of plant workers supported Local […]

January 8, 2015
News & Commentary

Dylan Rubin

The Guardian has written an article exploring OnLabor guest Heather Whitney’s post on McDonald’s plans to create a charitable partnership as a strategy to draw in millennial consumers who have fled the brand in recent years. However, Whitney advocates for a different strategy that will do more to attract millennials: McDonald’s could gain traction with millenial consumers […]

January 8, 2015
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

The New York Times reports that the postmaster general blamed Congress and the postal union for the Postal Service’s current financial problems, in a speech on Tuesday. According to the Times, as USPS revenues have declined in recent years, the Postal Service has enacted cuts that consolidated 305 mail-processing plants and eliminated over 200,000 jobs. […]

January 8, 2015
News & Commentary

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. McDonald’s announced that it will be laying off 63 workers at its Illinois headquarters as part of a cost cutting strategy. According to CNBC, the cuts will begin in early February and […]

January 7, 2015
News & Commentary

Sabrina Lee

The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. Steel Corp. will idle plants in Ohio and Texas and lay off 756 workers as a result of the recent collapse in global oil prices. Because oil prices have plunged to about $50 per barrel, U.S. Steel, which makes steel pipes and tubes for oil and gas exploration […]

January 6, 2015
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Rachel Homer

In immigration news, the Los Angeles Times reports that a federal judge has ordered Arizona to cease enforcing a state law that punishes undocumented immigrants for seeking employment. District Judge David G. Campbell stated that those laws “are at odds with federal statutes that protect such immigrants from prosecution simply for applying for work.” The federal […]

January 5, 2015
News & Commentary

Emily Cusick

The New York Times reports that hourly employees across New York City are hoping to see their protests for better hours and wages bear fruit in 2015. Retail stores, community colleges, and even nonprofit agencies are raising wages. After five years of decline in the city’s median family income, a recent study by the Fiscal […]

January 4, 2015
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

The Los Angeles Times reports that there has been a surge in union organizing campaigns by part-time adjunct faculty at nearly a dozen private colleges in California. Faculty members are seeking improved pay and more predictable employment, while administrators worry that the unionization of faculty will drive up tuition and reduce flexibility. In POLITICO, Timothy […]

January 2, 2015
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Mark Kaltenbach

New York City’s police unions are denying that an organized work slowdown is underway to protest a perceived lack of support from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. According to media analyses of police department statistics, arrests across the city have dropped dramatically since the execution-style murder of two police officers in Brooklyn by a gunman […]

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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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