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August 30, 2013
News & Commentary

Sam Heppell

In front of 1000 stores across 6o cities, fast food workers and supporters demonstrated yesterday for higher wages, in what the L.A. Times describes as perhaps the “biggest effort yet” for low-wage workers hit hard by the recession to demonstrate the hardship posed by working for minimum wage. While the protesters took to the streets, […]

August 29, 2013
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Rachel Homer

The recession continues to hurt the performing arts world. Last year the Minnesota Orchestra cancelled its season due to a lockout, after the players refused to accept a 32% paycut. The New York Times reports that this year, the players and management have until September 15th to reach an agreement, otherwise they will have to cancel their Carnegie […]

August 28, 2013
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Brad King

Leading off, a couple of Washington Post op-ed’s may be of particular interest to readers: Martin Luther King III reflects on Saturday’s rally at DC’s National Mall to commemorate the passage of 50 years since his father, Dr. King, led the ’63 March on Washington. MLK III argues that the theme of the ’63 March, […]

August 27, 2013
News & Commentary

Jordan M. Grossman

The Washington Post reports that, after staying on through much of the economic downturn, a wave of senior federal employees are retiring as retirement accounts are rebounding at the same time that agency budgets are being slashed, workers are being furloughed, and morale is plunging. The number of executive branch employees retiring this fiscal year is on […]

August 26, 2013
News & Commentary

Alison Deich

The Wall Street Journal reports that, as groups across the nation observe the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, many are calling for immigration reform. The article notes that some advocates for immigration reform have drawn lessons and inspiration from the Civil Rights movement. The Los Angeles Times discusses a dispute between United Steelworkers […]

August 25, 2013
News & Commentary

Nikolas Bowie

Wednesday is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Washington Post and NBC News report that thousands of members of civil rights organizations and labor unions unions marched on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary and renew calls for an updated federal voting rights law and more job opportunities. […]

August 23, 2013
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Sam Heppell

In continuing coverage of the rift between unions and the White House over Obamacare, the Huffington Post reports that the Nevada State AFL-CIO has passed a resolution criticizing the administration’s handling of the issue, and arguing the law may end up “destroying” multi-employer healthcare plans that the unions have negotiated. A new study of USERRA, a […]

August 22, 2013
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Brad King

More details are emerging about the planned nationwide walk-out of fast food workers on August 29th. MoneyWatch reports that the call for the walk out came from a PR agency whose clientele includes both the Service Employees International Union and United Food & Commercial Workers. Supporters of the strike maintain that workers are underpaid, while […]

August 21, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

More news on Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. Pension funds representing Detroit’s city employees and retirees have challenged emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s calculations regarding pension shortfalls. The pension issue further complicates Detroit’s already contentious Chapter 9 filing. In the Washington Post, opinion writer Harold Meyerson harkens back to the “more robust […]

August 20, 2013
News & Commentary

Jordan M. Grossman

The New York Times reports on a labor angle to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s commemoration yesterday of the 10th anniversary of the single deadliest assault in the UN’s history, the bombing of its Baghdad offices that killed 22 people. The Times notes that the ceremony was overshadowed by aggrieved staff members, whose union representative presented Ban’s […]

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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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