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Sharon Block Returns to Harvard as Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program

Mar 18, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

I am so happy to share with OnLabor readers the news that Sharon Block is returning to Harvard Law School as a professor of practice and the Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program. Sharon’s return is a great boon for labor law at Harvard and an incredible opportunity for us to consider the […]

February 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Amazon announced yesterday that due to a competitive labor market, it will double its cap on salaries for corporate employees, raising the highest possible cash earning from $160,000 to $350,000. These salaries have normally been supplemented by Amazon stock, though the total packages were a source of frustration for many salaried employees, many of whom […]

On Jorts: The Labor Cat

Feb 8, 2022 Annie Hollister

It’s only February, but 2022 has already blessed the labor movement with a new icon. If you are active on labor Twitter, you probably already know who we’re talking about. Yes, it’s time to talk about Jorts. For OnLabor readers who don’t dwell on the Internet, here is some background: Jorts is a cat who […]

November 4, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Members of the United Auto Workers yesterday rejected a second offered deal by Deere & Co. This has the effect of extending the already three-week-long strike. Among the items rejected in the deal were larger wage increases, a signing bonus of $8,500, a “$35,000 retirement bonus for workers with 10 to 24 years on the […]

October 21, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Unionization efforts at Amazon have revived, this time from a group of workers in a Staten Island distribution center. The workers have already collected 1,700 signatures and say they will have enough support to initiate a unionization vote with the National Labor Relations Board by Monday. The organizers of the efforts are current and former […]

October 7, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations against crackdowns on immigration are protected by federal labor law, according to National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. During an online webinar yesterday hosted by Cornell, the General Counsel noted that such protests have the “objective goal of mutual aid and protection, and concern issues that employers […]

January 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Some 6,000 front-line workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail in February and March on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the NLRB said Friday. The NLRB rejected Amazon’s push to hold the election in-person, citing safety concerns in light of COVID-19. Ballots will be mailed […]

Litigating ICE’s “Voluntary Work Program”

Apr 10, 2020 Annie Hollister

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers are the nation’s largest employer of immigrant labor. According to the New York Times at least 60,000 immigrants every year work in detention centers through federally-authorized “Voluntary Work Programs.” In this capacity, immigrants detained across the United States prepare meals for, clean, and maintain the facilities in […]

April 2, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

6.6 million people signed up for state unemployment benefits last week, according to Department of Labor data released this morning. As EPI notes, today’s earth-shattering number—over double last week’s record-breaking 3.3. million jobless claims—is likely to prove a better indicator of the country’s economic outlook than Friday’s jobs’ report. Medium-term projections look even grimmer: in […]

Senator Wagner Still Speaks, And We Should Listen

Nov 21, 2019 Charlie J. Morris

My new book, How the Working Class Can Help the Middle Class: Reintroducing Non-Majority Collective Bargaining to the American Workplace, verifies and explains the legal basis of a little-known collective bargaining process, to wit, members-only minority-union bargaining, and how it is expected to function, plus its role in history, and how it can be achieved as […]

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