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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.

The National Restaurant Association’s Training Scheme Is Unconstitutional

Jan 18, 2023 Benjamin Sachs

Food-service workers in four states are being required to pay for a food-safety training class every few years. That money is then being used to fund political lobbying that many of the workers oppose. That's unconstitutional.

August 25, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

The Biden administration released the final version of regulations intended to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program against legal challenges on Wednesday. DACA, which originated with a 2012 memo by the Obama administration, offers protection from deportation and the ability to work legally to some 600,000 undocumented young people who came to […]

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 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and analysis of the effect of remote work on women. Today California farmworkers will march 19 miles […]

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 […]

August 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: Union representatives call for urgent heat protections for UPS workers and, at Starbucks, union organizing continues. Union representatives across the country are worried about the increasing number of UPS workers who have needed medical treatment for heat illness this summer. NBC News reported that UPS, the world’s largest package delivery […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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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The National Restaurant Association’s Training Scheme Is Unconstitutional

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