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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 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: The NLRB battles Whole Foods over workers’ Black Lives Matter apparel; the New York Times details the rise of the worker productivity score; and as temperatures rise, industries fight against heat safeguards for workers. The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) is litigating a complaint against Whole Foods for terminating workers […]

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 […]

Cannabis Legislation: Labor Rights and Equity

Jun 20, 2022 Eric Jang

The legal cannabis industry is currently one of the fastest-growing employers in the U.S. Since 2017, the number of Americans working with cannabis has grown each year by at least 27%. In just the last year alone, the industry grew by 33% and now employs up to 428,000 American workers. Part of the reason for […]

New York City Takes First Step Towards Regulating Automated Hiring

Jun 10, 2022 Nicholas Anway

The next time you apply for a job, you may be scrutinized by an algorithm. Automated hiring software is already common. And its demand is accelerating as employers compete for employees in increasingly hot labor markets. According to Forbes, “99% of Fortune 500 companies rely on the aid of talent-sifting software, and 55% of human […]

What’s the Matter with Workplace Wellness?

May 30, 2022 Miriam Shestack

In March 2022, Yale University announced a motion to settle a class action for $1.29 million after employees alleged that the University’s Health Expectations Program violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). About 6,000 union employees were required to participate in the program, designed to encourage employees to […]

May 19, 2022
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Labor disputes with Amazon continued this week, this time with New York State filing a complaint against Amazon accusing the e-commerce giant of discriminating against pregnant workers and workers with disabilities. New York’s Division of Human Rights filed a complain alleging that instead of accommodations, the company forces them to take unpaid leaves of absence. […]

Access to Fertility-Insurance Coverage for LGBTQ Employees Post-Bostock

May 16, 2022 Sarah Leadem

Fertility benefits are on the rise in American employee benefits packages. In vitro fertilization (IVF) coverage rose steadily in the last five years for both medium and large employers. Facebook and Apple were first movers in covering egg freezing in 2014. Now, employers like Salesforce and Spotify offer surrogacy coverage up to $80,000. LGBTQ couples, […]

May 5, 2022
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Members of the Environmental Protection Agency’s largest union plan to ask the Biden administration to declare a climate emergency and take other dramatic steps to help the environment. As currently designed, a declaration of a national emergency would activate 123 statutory powers typically unavailable to the president. This demand will be part of the American […]

April 25, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news & commentary, unions, unions, unions! Union voting at a second Staten Island Amazon warehouse begins, Amazon Labor Union organizers talk about how they made history, and Activision game testers will vote next month on unionizing. Voting began this morning at LDJ5, the second Staten Island Amazon warehouse to hold a union vote […]

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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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September 16, 2022

August 15, 2022

July 15, 2022

Cannabis Legislation: Labor Rights and Equity

New York City Takes First Step Towards Regulating Automated Hiring

What’s the Matter with Workplace Wellness?

May 19, 2022

Access to Fertility-Insurance Coverage for LGBTQ Employees Post-Bostock

May 5, 2022

April 25, 2022