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January 15, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Supreme Court grants cert to religious accommodation case, GOP House rules aim to eliminate staff unions

Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation

Dec 24, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

How the NLRB can promote state-level labor law innovation

Biden’s NLRB Will Leave Too Much Bad Law Untouched

Dec 6, 2022 Andrew Strom

Unless the NLRB engages in more rulemaking on substantive issues, many bad NLRB decisions will likely last forever.

December 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

NLRB staff and Congressional Labor Caucus leaders advocate for more NLRB funding; NLRB motion argues that Amazon is violating a Section 10(j) injunction

November 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

Election day was yesterday: three states banned slavery, cities and states increased the minimum wage, and IL and TN voted to oppose right-to-work constitutional amendments

September 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News and Commentary: Congressional staffers form the first-ever union, more Congressional offices hold union elections, and the last remaining rail union signs a tentative agreement. Staffers in the office of Democratic Congressmember Andy Levin voted unanimously to unionize. While staffers voted last week, the union announced the results on Monday. This marks the […]

September 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Julia Deng

In today’s News and Commentary: rail workers and freight rail companies reach a tentative agreement, minor league baseball players unionize, the Minnesota nurses’ strike comes to a close, and tensions continue to simmer on the picket line at the longest strike in Starbucks history. After all-night talks, rail workers’ unions and railroads reached a tentative […]

August 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, a major spending bill passes the Senate, while the labor market exceeds analyst expectations — and then some. More big news from Washington. The $740 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that Kevin teed up over the weekend passed the Senate yesterday afternoon, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the […]

July 31, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, a leaked Amazon memo gives insight into its anti-union strategy and Congress advances legislation to protect workers from dangerous heat conditions. On July 29, Vox reported on a leaked memo authored by Amazon officials in May 2021 offering insight into the company’s anti-union strategy in Southern California, a crucial […]

July 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s News and Commentary: proposed federal legislation to protect domestic workers, workers written out of a newly passed federal semiconductor production initiative, a potential criminal inquiry at Amazon, union workers find solidarity amid struggle in Ukraine, and unions demand change in Sri Lanka. Beginning at 10:00 AM today the House Education and Labor Committee […]

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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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