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The Healthcare Conundrum: Who Protects Our Protectors?

Dec 29, 2021 Jasmine Loo

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a heavy toll on the healthcare workers of America. From having to deny patients a bed due to a shortage of resources, being abused and harassed for advocating vaccines, being unable to talk to and reassure patients due to having to care for twice the usual […]

The Intersectionality of Climate Change and Labor

Dec 27, 2021 Jasmine Loo

At the conclusion of the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) this November, the 1.5-degrees Celsius goal remained hanging by a thread, propped up by the bold carbon commitments of smaller emitters and the adoption of the Paris Agreement Rulebook. Global warming is driving extreme weather events, such as wildfires and flooding […]

December 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Yesterday, the Kellogg strike ended after striking workers ratified a new contract broadening the scope of the company’s cost-of-living wage adjustments to cover all employees. The eleven-week strike started in early October, spanning four of Kellogg’s breakfast cereal plants. The agreement concludes a monthslong contentious negotiation, during which Kellogg controversially threatened to permanently replace striking […]

Seven Chinese Construction Workers Sued a Saipan Casino and Won.

Dec 8, 2021 Qianfeng Lin

Migrant workers, especially indebted ones, are highly vulnerable to forced labor exploitation in the host country. Wang v. Gold Mantis is a case in which seven Chinese construction workers sued a casino in Saipan, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for forced labor and human trafficking under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) […]

November 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, workers across the country and around the world are taking to the picket line to voice grievances over wages, health insurance, and working conditions. Yesterday, in San Francisco, a local union announced that hundreds of airport workers intend to protest inadequate health-care benefits on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, […]

Hidden in the Infrastructure Bill: Interstate Teen Driving of Commercial Semi-Trucks

Nov 22, 2021 Julia Huang

The House has finally passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Among many other things, it promises spending on road improvements and broadband access. But in a potentially dangerous move, the infrastructure bill invites young 18- to 20- year old drivers to drive semi-trucks on interstate highways, instead of solving the industry’s turnover and recruitment […]

November 18, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

The United Auto Workers achieved victory yesterday after ending a month-long strike at John Deere, the farm and construction equipment manufacturer. In a statement, the UAW said, “UAW John Deere members did not just unite themselves, they seemed to unite the nation in a struggle for fairness in the workplace. We could not be more […]

October 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The House Rules Committee unveiled yesterday the latest version of the Democrats’ tax and social spending plan that they are aiming to pass through the budget reconciliation process. The latest version of the bill, which the Biden administration considers part of its Build Back Better agenda, includes significant increases to the size of financial penalties […]

October 27, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

On Monday, New York City’s largest police union filed a lawsuit seeking to permit unvaccinated police officers to continue working—in violation of the city’s recently imposed vaccine mandate. Under that mandate, all municipal workers must receive at least one coronavirus vaccine dose by November. The suit represents just the latest effort on the part of […]

Religious Accommodations for Vaccine Mandates: The Struggle for Public Safety

Oct 27, 2021 Ethan Borrasso

On August 23rd, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. Shortly thereafter, President Biden called on private companies to mandate vaccinations. He has since ordered all companies with more than 100 workers to require vaccination or weekly testing. A survey conducted before President Biden’s latest announcement, including over 1,000 employers, found […]

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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 Healthcare Conundrum: Who Protects Our Protectors?

The Intersectionality of Climate Change and Labor

December 22, 2021

Seven Chinese Construction Workers Sued a Saipan Casino and Won.

November 24, 2021

Hidden in the Infrastructure Bill: Interstate Teen Driving of Commercial Semi-Trucks

November 18, 2021

October 29, 2021

October 27, 2021

Religious Accommodations for Vaccine Mandates: The Struggle for Public Safety