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The Kavanaugh Nomination and Labor

Jul 10, 2018 Sharon Block

Yesterday, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh currently serves as a judge on the United States Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated to the D.C. Circuit by President George Bush in 2003 but was not confirmed until 2006. Prior to […]

July 10, 2018
News & Commentary

Ross Evans

Yesterday, President Trump announced that he would be nominating Judge Brett Kavanaugh, currently of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. What could this mean for The Supreme Court’s labor- and employment-law jurisprudence? On June 28, Edith Roberts of ScotusBlog published a profile on Judge Kavanaugh […]

June 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

This morning the White House plans to announce a proposal to merge the Departments of Labor and Education. The idea is just the latest iteration of a decades-long conservative effort to downsize the federal government, but an early step in a broader restructuring planned under the current administration. Any merger would require congressional approval, however, […]

November 7, 2017
News & Commentary

Kamika Shaw

The House of Representatives convened last night to consider the Save Local Business Act. The Rules Committee voted 9-2 for the proposed legislation. If passed, the bill would narrow the definition of joint employer. The legislation would limit an employer’s liability under the National Labor Relations Act and Fair Labor Standards Act. Employers would be […]

May 19, 2017
News & Commentary

Vivian Dong

Unless AT&T officials come to a labor agreement with AT&T workers by 3PM EST today, thousands of workers across 36 states and DC will walk off the job in a three-day strike. This would be the first strike ever for AT&T Mobility workers. The labor dispute covers 40,000 workers across the country. One particular sticking […]

Educating America’s Twenty-First Century Workforce

Mar 8, 2017 Christopher M. Young

The nature of work in America is changing, with increasingly sophisticated automation, advanced digital platforms, and other technological innovations serving as a catalyst. And these transformations are only adding to the challenges facing the American labor force and its readiness to succeed at work, especially younger workers who are relying on their secondary educations to […]

August 3, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

On Monday, Massachusetts became the first state to prohibit employers from asking applicants to share information about past salaries prior to being hired. Hailed as an innovative strategy to combat the disparity in wages between women and men, the law requires companies to calculate and offer salary figures without regard for past compensation. Commentary on the […]

July 19, 2016
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

Walmart organizes its business on a global scale, and now its workers are following suit. According to Reuters, “OUR Walmart and the Wal-Mart Chinese Workers Association (WCWA) discussed strategy for recent strikes in China on a Skype call last month using a translator.” OUR Walmart consists of American Walmart employees. The two groups are “discussing […]

July 3, 2016
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

With more reporting on Brexit, the Los Angeles Times explores the potential effect of the referendum on the world’s poorest workers. Noting possible reductions in development aid and increased impediments to trade, the Times speculates that African farmers could be among the most affected because of the key role that the United Kingdom had played in promoting their access […]

June 21, 2016
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, and held the Department of Labor cannot change its interpretation of a rule absent an explanation. The Hill reports that “in the 6-2 ruling, the Supreme Court said the Labor Department had to explain why it decided to change a longstanding policy […]

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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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