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August 31, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News & Commentary, public approval of labor unions has reached a record high and Seattle’s independent contractors have new rights starting this Thursday. A Gallup poll released on Tuesday reports that 71% of Americans support labor unions—the highest approval rating since 1965. The trend toward union support started with the onset of the […]

August 26, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: Teamsters reaches a historic settlement with Universal Intermodal; the Sixth Circuit stays an NLRB injunction ordering reinstatement of the Starbucks “Memphis Seven”; and California considers a bill that would require large employers to submit pay data reports based on sex, ethnicity, and race. Shipping company Universal Intermodal reached a historic […]

August 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, Minnesota nurses vote to strike; Amazon workers walk off the job; Starbucks asks labor board to suspend all union elections; and the Presidential Emergency Board is set to release its recommendations to quell the domestic rail dispute. Nearly 15,000 nurses organized with the Minnesota Nurses Association (“MNA”) authorized a strike […]

August 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: The FAST Act makes its way to the California Senate Floor; New York companies face billions in lawsuits for paying workers once every two weeks instead of weekly. Yesterday, California’s Senate Appropriations Committee passed AB 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards (FAST) Recovery Act, progressing the bill to a […]

The Flexibility to Be Paid in Chicken Sandwiches

Aug 8, 2022 Charlotte Garden

Last week, a Chick-fil-A franchise in Hendersonville, North Carolina made news by asking for “volunteers” to work at the store’s drive-through window at a rate of five entrees (and zero dollars) per hour worked. A store representative justified the arrangement by claiming “people who sign up for this chose it voluntarily.” This practice likely violates […]

August 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, OSHA fines two Family Dollar stores in Ohio, US railroad workers may be gearing up to strike, and a new Washington Post article discusses the impacts of inflation on Government workers. Two Ohio Family Dollar stores are each facing over $500,000 in fines, according to a Monday Department of Labor […]

July 19, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, Congressional staffers are unionizing; an Amazon tragedy during Prime Day; the Department of Justice argues that no-poach agreements are per se unlawful; and the RMT union has vowed to strike again. Congressional staffers at eight offices filed to unionize with the Congressional Workers Union on Monday, the union announced on […]

July 18, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: a labor reporter analyzes the factors driving the recent spike in union organizing; workers increasingly pick up extra jobs to pay for gas and food; conflicting data may show early signs of a weakening labor market; restaurant industry employment lags behind pre-pandemic levels; and lagging enforcement of transit worker protections […]

July 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: DOL rulemaking on employee retention for changing federal contractors; pro-labor amendments passed in a House Defense bill; and both celebrations and limitations of a DOL policy offering protections to undocumented workers who file certain labor law complaints. Today, the DOL issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for a rule […]

July 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

New guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tells employers to take more factors into consideration when choosing to screen employees for Covid-19. Until this change took place, employees could legally screen workers on-site across the board, Bloomberg explains. Now, employers will have to prove that testing employees is a “business necessity,” based on factors […]

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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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