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May 15, 2023
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

United Airlines pilots protest for higher pay; Oakland, CA teachers union reached a tentative agreement ending their 7-day strike; Iran arrested eight people accused of leading a workers’ strike at the world’s largest gas reserve; Writers Guild of America denies a Broadway request to allow the broadcast of the Tony Awards ceremony to move forward as scheduled

May 14, 2023
News & Commentary

Will Ebeler

Workers at electric school bus factory in Georgia vote to unionize; New York City Council passes bill banning height and weight discrimination; Goldman Sachs agrees to $215 million gender discrimination settlement; a new study finds higher minimum wage leads to increased employment.

April 23, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

A Florida-based think tank is driving roll back of child labor laws, and House and Senate Democrats reintroduce the Do No Harm Act

April 16, 2023
News & Commentary

Will Ebeler

Unions at Rutgers University paused a week-long strike after reaching a framework for a new agreement; France’s Constitutional Council upheld the constitutionality of a plan to raise the retirement age; a former employee of Smoothstack Inc. filed a class action over alleged wage theft; a new research paper explained algorithmic wage discrimination by gig companies.

April 7, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

NLRB General Counsel calls for overturn of several precedents; and Black Tesla worker’s discrimination damages slashed by jury.

March 10, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Secretary of Labor Walsh stepping down March 11th; NLRB stands by decision authorizing expansive remedies; Trader Joe's worker's retaliation suit can advance to jury.

Who Needs Congress when You Have Five (or Six) Supreme Court Justices?

Mar 6, 2023 Andrew Strom

Should the Supreme Court claim that an interpretation of Title VII is wrong when Congress has, for decades, “left that apparent misinterpretation untouched”?

January 30, 2023
News & Commentary

Chinmay G. Pandit

Tech@Work — Illinois’s highest court considers whether federal collective bargaining law preempts BIPA; the EEOC publishes a new plan to enforce nondiscrimination laws against AI hiring technology; and working professionals discover the wonders — and dangers — of ChatGPT.

January 27, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Judge rules firing of Whole Foods workers for wearing BLM masks legal; judge stands by order enforcing subpoenas against Starbucks Workers United; Fourth Circuit skeptical of UPS worker's ADA accommodation claim.

September 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news & commentary, San Francisco airport food workers are on strike; Starbucks proposes bargaining dates for hundreds of unionized locations; and the Trader Joes unionization wave spreads to Brooklyn. Around 1,000 airport foodservice workers at the San Francisco International Airport went on strike yesterday, demanding better pay and maintenance of their healthcare benefits. […]

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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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