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June 7, 2023
News & Commentary

Jacqueline Rayfield

SAG-AFTRA votes to authorize a strike, Norfolk Southern reaches agreements on paid sick leave with all employees, and UNITE HERE Local 11 heads into a strike vote.

June 6, 2023
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

President Biden nominates Suzanne Summerlin for permanent general counsel at the Federal Labor Relations Authority; hundreds of journalists across the country walked off the job yesterday to demand leadership change at newspaper chain giant Gannett; a pro-union resolution in Pennsylvania sparked debate over which political party better supports the working class

June 5, 2023
News & Commentary

Morgan Sperry

Ports in California are shut down as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and industry officials reach a stalemate, and the WGA strike continues.

June 4, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Mexico taking up US’s request to investigate labor violations at Goodyear plant; Amazon fires another organizer at Bessemer warehouse; leaders of United Airlines pilots union authorize strike vote.

June 2, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Labor leaders, academics, and reporters react to Glacier Northwest

June 1, 2023
News & Commentary

Linh Tang

Supreme Court ruled on Glacier Northwest; Southern California hotel employees asking for strike authorization; businesses urge to strike on June 1 to protest Florida's new immigration law; FedEx reached tentative agreement with pilot employees.

June 1, 2023
News & Commentary

Maddie Chang

Tech@Work: helpline fired its workers after they unionized and then introduced chatbot in their stead (which promptly malfunctioned), and Uber drivers in Nigeria who have financed their cars through Uber’s financing partner are having their cars impounded.

May 31, 2023
News & Commentary

Morgan Sperry

Starbucks is (yet again) violating the NLRA, Ben & Jerry's voluntarily recognizes its Scoopers union, and UPS workers prepare to strike for air conditioning and other benefits.

May 30, 2023
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In a short, but important day for labor news, NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo has stated her view that non-competes violate section 7 rights and wildfire-preventing goat companies are fighting a sharp increase in wages for their herders. In a much-anticipated memo released today, General Counsel of the NLRB Jennifer Abruzzo outlines a novel argument for […]

May 29, 2023
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

Iowa joins a growing list of states that are relaxing back child labor laws; Los Angeles union workers join the Writers Guild of America strikers in a show of solidarity; Alaska’s Supreme Court rules that an executive order requiring employees to opt in to union membership was illegal

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

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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