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September 23, 2013
News & Commentary

Max Utzschneider

In the New York Times, economist Nancy Folbre argues that the opposition of several business associations, as well as the Congressional Republicans, to the rule changes recently announced by the labor department that extend basic federal minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers can be explained according to the likely impact of these […]

September 22, 2013
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Rachel Homer

The Nation has an analysis of the changing role of domestic workers in major labor unions. As we reported, the Department of Labor recently announced domestic workers will be covered under he Fair Labor Standards Act. The article asks “What would real inclusion [for domestic workers] look like, not just on the celebration stage, but […]

September 20, 2013
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Sam Heppell

After the death of Washington D.C.’s proposed “living wage” bill, the Washington Post reports that Wal-Mart will open two hiring centers in the city next week. The centers will process applicants for the 300 positions expected to be staffed at each of the retailer’s two new D.C. stores. Textile plants are returning to the U.S., according […]

September 19, 2013
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Rachel Homer

Building on yesterday’s coverage of the employed homeless, the New York Times reports that “despite . . . soaring corporate profits[,] . . . income for he typical American household did not rise in 2012 and poverty failed to fall” according to the Census Bureau. Overall, these data reveal that today’s median household income is […]

September 18, 2013
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Brad King

The Obama administration will be extending federal minimum wage and overtime laws to the nation’s two million home health-care workers. Previously, in Long Island Care at Home, Ltd. v. Coke (2007), the Supreme Court held that such workers were providers of “companionship services,” a group exempt from FLSA minimum wage and overtime protections. Detailed coverage […]

September 17, 2013
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Jordan M. Grossman

The Los Angeles Times reports on the phenomenon of young undocumented immigrants forming limited liability companies or starting freelance careers — even employing U.S. citizens — that has resulted from a quirk of federal law. Employers are explicitly prohibited from hiring someone residing in the country illegally, but undocumented immigrants themselves are not explicitly barred from […]

September 16, 2013
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Alison Deich

The Washington Post reports that the gap between the unemployment rates for the highest- and lowest- income American families is the largest it has been in a decade. The unemployment rate for families earning less than $20,000 per year is greater than 21 percent, while the unemployment rate for families earning more than $150,000 per […]

September 13, 2013
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Scott Hochberg

The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. government will audit about 1,000 U.S. businesses suspected of hiring undocumented immigrants. “The audits suggest the Obama administration is choosing not to ignore companies that hire blue-collar, foreign labor even as it presses for an immigration overhaul.” The audits could result in job losses for undocumented workers and in […]

September 12, 2013
News & Commentary

Nikolas Bowie

The New York Times and Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel report that a federal district court in Wisconsin has upheld the state’s controversial public-sector collective bargaining law, Act 10, from a free speech and equal protection challenge. Yesterday’s decision, Laborers Local 236, AFL-CIO v. Walker, No. 11-cv-462-wmc (W.D. Wis. Sept. 11, 2013), comes on the heels of […]

September 11, 2013
News & Commentary

Brett M. Kalikow

Coverage continues of the AFL-CIO’s convention in Los Angeles, which will conclude today. Yesterday, the convention re-elected Richard Trumka as the federation’s president and Liz Shuler as its secretary treasurer, and newly elected Tefere Gebre as executive vice president, the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire blog reports, writing that the “slate reflects the federation’s plan […]

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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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