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August 4, 2025
News & Commentary

Justin Cassera

Trump fires head of BLS; Boeing workers authorize strike.

June 23, 2025
News & Commentary

Justin Cassera

Supreme Court interprets ADA; Department of Labor effectively kills Biden-era regulation; NYC announces new wages for rideshare drivers.

June 13, 2025
News & Commentary

Meredith Gudesblatt

Termination of grants promoting labor standards abroad at the District Court; Supreme Court agrees to hear case about forced labor; more states pass legislation to benefit striking workers

June 5, 2025
News & Commentary

Ajayan Williamson

Nail technicians challenge California classification; oral arguments in challenge to LGBTQ hiring protections; judge blocks Job Corps shutdown.

April 14, 2025
News & Commentary

Justin Cassera

Department of Labor publishes unemployment statistics; Kentucky unions resist deportation orders; Teamsters win three elections in Texas.

December 9, 2024
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

Teamsters file charges against Costco; a sanitation contractor is fined child labor law violations, and workers give VW an ultimatum ahead of the latest negotiation attempts

November 24, 2024
News & Commentary

Otto Barenberg

Trump picks Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor Secretary; German Volkswagen workers on the precipice of major strike.

September 30, 2024
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

Industry and ports brace for impact of the Longshoremen’s strike as their contract expires tonight; the Department of Labor introduced a new tool designed to guide employers in inclusive use of AI hiring technologies; the Labor Movement mourns the passing of labor leader Bill Lucy

September 20, 2024
News & Commentary

Holt McKeithan

In today’s News and Commentary, Waffle House workers allege rampant wage theft, employers of seasonal migrant workers in Colorado systematically violate labor laws without consequence, and striking journalists at Law360 win a contract. Waffle House workers, along with the Union of Southern Service Workers, accused the restaurant of a massive scheme of wage theft in […]

August 19, 2024
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

DOL defends its new independent contractor rule in five separate lawsuits brought in courts around the country; AT&T workers across the Southeast are striking after alleged unfair labor practice during contract negotiations; UAW President Shawn Fain is slated to speak tonight at the opening of the Democratic National Convention

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

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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