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April 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

In keeping with a months-long trend, the past week witnessed a fresh set of revelations of past and present labor abuses by Amazon. Looking backward, the NLRB recently found that the company violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired two employees who had become outspoken critics of Amazon’s working conditions and approach to […]

Is the NLRB About to Become Even More Politicized?

Apr 1, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden delighted labor unions by dismissing the notoriously anti-union Peter Robb as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”). As Fred notes, Biden justified his unprecedented decision to remove Robb before the end of his term by citing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in […]

March 31, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

As Zachary noted yesterday, voting has begun in Bessemer. Over Zoom, with representatives from Amazon and the RWDSU watching, the NLRB is counting ballots from workers in Amazon’s warehouse to see whether they have decided to unionize. Dave Jamieson at the Huffington Post writes that it could be months before the election has a clear […]

The Promise and Danger of the NLRB’s New Workplace Civility Doctrine

Mar 23, 2021 Fred Wang

On the eve of a union election, an event venue server, frustrated with what he perceives to be management’s continuing disrespect towards its employees, takes to Facebook and uses profane language to describe a supervisor while urging his co-workers to vote to unionize. During a work lockout at a manufacturing plant, a white employee at […]

March 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

After a major legal defeat in Britain, Uber announced it will reclassify more than 70,000 UK drivers as “workers,” which will entitle the drivers to minimum wage, vacation pay and a pension plan. In February 2021 the British Supreme Court ruled that Uber behaved more like an employer than a “technology company” because it assigned […]

March 16, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

After furloughing its stagehand workers at the start of the pandemic, the Met is now negotiating for pay and benefits cuts and outsourcing stagehand labor to non-union shops. At the onset of the pandemic, management invoked its force majeure clause to furlough stagehand workers, musicians, and singers without pay beyond March 31, 2020. Since then, […]

NLRB Abandons Rulemaking that Would Have Stripped Graduate Students Workers of Right to Unionize

Mar 12, 2021 Jon Levitan

The NLRB announced today that it was ending its effort to overrule via rulemaking Columbia University, 364 NLRB No. 90 (2016), which held that graduate student workers at private universities were “employees” under the NLRA and able to unionize. Chairwoman Lauren McFerran, the lone Democrat on the board, tweeted that “student employees are workers deserving […]

March 9, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Unions in Myanmar have called a general strike after last month’s military coup overthrew the country’s civilian leadership. Since the February 1st coup which overthrew Myanmar’s first democratically elected government in decades, the ruling junta has engaged in a brutal crackdown of dissent, with at least 50 protestors killed and 1,800 injured in only a […]

Why the Legal Challenge to Robb’s Removal Is a Losing Argument

Feb 25, 2021 Fred Wang

At the early outset of his administration, President Biden—in keeping with his pledge to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”—fired the National Labor Relation Board’s general counsel, Peter Robb, after Robb—a pro-management Trump appointee and now the first NLRB general counsel to be dismissed in decades—refused the President’s request to resign ten months […]

An Update on Graduate Student Unions and the NLRB

Feb 23, 2021 Ash Tomaszewski

The employee status, and union bargaining rights, of graduate student workers has fluctuated over the last twenty years with the changing of Presidential administrations and the political make-up of the NLRB. But this year is likely to be particularly tumultuous as the agency becomes a center for a pro-labor President’s agenda. The current state of […]

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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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April 5, 2021

Is the NLRB About to Become Even More Politicized?

March 31, 2021

The Promise and Danger of the NLRB’s New Workplace Civility Doctrine

March 17, 2021

March 16, 2021

NLRB Abandons Rulemaking that Would Have Stripped Graduate Students Workers of Right to Unionize

March 9, 2021

Why the Legal Challenge to Robb’s Removal Is a Losing Argument

An Update on Graduate Student Unions and the NLRB