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June 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has published its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (ETS) to its website this morning. The rule mandates that covered employers implement comprehensive COVID-19 safety plans, install barriers and improved ventilation, provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to employees, enforce social distancing, and grant employees paid time off for vaccinations and […]

June 9, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

Senate Republicans today blocked a bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 7), that imposes higher standards and larger penalties on companies over claims of pay discrimination based on sex. Specifically, would limit an employer’s defense that a pay differential is based on a factor other than sex to only bona fide job-related factors in wage […]

May 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

This week, the AFL-CIO, after eleven months of research and preparation, quietly released its report on police reform to little fanfare, in contrast to the high-profile launch of their “Racial Justice Task Force” in July 2020. As explained by Hamilton Noland this weekend for In These Times, the AFL-CIO, a vocal advocate for racial justice […]

May 27, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

President Joe Biden intends to nominate Gwynne Wilcox, a union-side labor lawyer, to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the White House announced yesterday. As a senior partner at Levy Ratner and associate general counsel for SEIU 1199 United Healthcare Workers East in New York, Wilcox made waves through a landmark unfair labor practice case […]

May 18, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

The mailbox outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama – which has become the fulcrum of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union’s (RWDSU) NLRB challenge to its election loss at the warehouse – was a top priority for the Amazon executive in charge of warehouses. NLRB hearings began last week after the RWDSU filed […]

May 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

The number of initial state unemployment claims decreased by 34,000 last week, resulting in a weekly adjusted total of 473,000 claims. Despite this sign that the labor market is beginning to heal, economists are nonetheless worried. For certain industries, job applications are down and hiring has stalled. Politico provides several explanations for this state of affairs, such […]

May 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), announced that members had voted to advance three nominees for labor-policy posts in the Biden Administration. The Committee voted 14-8 in favor of the nomination of Jocelyn Samuels for Democratic Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and by the same margin […]

May 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

On Tuesday, the Clean Slate for Worker Power released a report outlining a series of policy recommendations designed to fundamentally reform U.S. labor law and build worker power. At a high level, the policies are aimed at developing a regime of sectoral bargaining, enlarging the scope of mandatory bargaining subjects to encompass subcontracting, relocation, and […]

May 3, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

The New York Times published a recap and analysis of President Biden’s “multitrillion-dollar suite of economic proposals” aimed at reinforcing, and reconstructing, the American middle class. The Administration, the Times reports, is capitalizing on rising support for public investment to advance two primary initiatives, the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which focuses on support for […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

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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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