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November 3, 2013
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The Bay Area Rapid Transit’s (BART) two largest unions recently ratified the settlement that ended the four-day strike last month, according to the LA Times. Under the new four-year agreement, “union members will start paying into their pensions. Changes were also made to healthcare coverage and retirement benefits. In exchange, workers will get a roughly […]

November 1, 2013
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Sam Heppell

In the aftermath of a $34 million settlement for immigration law violations alleged against outsourcing firm Infosys, federal officials are pushing investigations into similar practices by other firms, according to The Wall Street Journal. Investigators are probing whether other companies committed visa fraud or violated record-keeping requirements. The New York Times reports that unemployment rates […]

October 31, 2013
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

In immigration news, the Los Angeles Times reports that some Republican Members of Congress are finally signing on the Democrats’ comprehensive immigration reform bill in the house. Representatives Valadao and Denham, both Republicans from California, have announced their support for the bill, which is similar to the immigration reform bill the Senate passed over the […]

October 30, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

Unions have held back in supporting the roll out the Affordable Care Act, and Politico explores why. Public-sector unions have been left largely untouched by the legislation; with their hands already full, these unions have little incentive to help register non-members for benefits that members themselves won’t receive. In the private sector, negotiations are ongoing […]

October 29, 2013
News & Commentary

Jordan M. Grossman

The Washington Post reports that House Republicans and President Obama have both proposed some form of higher contributions by federal employees toward their retirement benefits for upcoming budget talks. Democrats in both chambers of Congress have opposed such efforts, and unions argue these proposed retirement changes are unfair in light of the savings the federal government has already achieved at the […]

October 28, 2013
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Alison Deich

The New York Times reports that an arbitrator resolved a labor contract dispute between the Resorts World Casino and the Hotel Trades Council (a union that represents Resorts World employees). The arbitrator supplied the terms of a new, three-year contract with 1, 375 Resorts World employees in Queens. The average employee’s wages will double when […]

October 27, 2013
News & Commentary

Nikolas Bowie

The long-term unemployment rate — the percentage of the labor force that has been out of work for more than a year and is still seeking employment — is down to 1.9 percent, the New York Times reports. While this is down from a peak of 3 percent in 2010, the figure is still higher than […]

October 25, 2013
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi explain in the Washington Post how some organizations, and labor unions in particular, are able to “expand the nature and scope of [their members’] political action, especially among those [members] for whom politics might otherwise not appear terribly relevant.” Through their leadership and education committees, unions alert their members to […]

October 24, 2013
News & Commentary

Kirsten Bass

The L.A. Times reports that the spring mayoral race is resting largely on which candidate is “too cozy” with organized labor. A poll conducted by the University of Southern California and the L.A. Times found that city residents opposed to public sector unionism strongly favored Eric Garcetti over Wendy Greuel. A similarly labor-focused political race […]

October 23, 2013
News & Commentary

Brett M. Kalikow

Coverage continues of the four-day transit strike in San Francisco, which ended on Tuesday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that under the four-year deal workers would receive a 15.4% raise in exchange for several work-rule changes and an increase in medical insurance premium payments. The agreement still needs to be approved the BART board (see […]

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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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