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November 28, 2023
News & Commentary

Sunah Chang

New York plaintiffs file workplace sexual assault claims before the Adult Survivors Act deadline, the NLRB dismisses claims that Tesla illegally fired workers for union activity, and voters across party lines express support for federal paid leave.

August 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), […]

May 31, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Democrats in the Texas legislature orchestrated a late-night walkout Sunday night to temporarily block Republican lawmakers from passing what would be one of the nation’s most restrictive state voting laws. The move deprived the session of the minimum number of legislators required for a vote before a midnight deadline, dealing a dramatic setback to state […]

November 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Union organizers may lose the ability to reach farmworkers on their work premises. The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Cedar Point Nursery vs. Hassid to consider whether a California regulation that entitles organizers to enter agricultural property violates the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, Bloomberg Law reports. The rule allows organizers to access […]

August 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

20,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast are on strike after the company allegedly committed unfair labor practices in bargaining (or not bargaining) a new contract. The Communications Workers of America, the union representing the workers, says that the negotiating team appointed by the company did “not have real authority to make proposals or to reach an […]

August 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

The Nation reported today on working conditions for participants in the Summer Work Travel (SWT) program, which provides over 100,000 foreign college students with J-1 visas to work in the United States each summer. According to a recent investigation by the International Labor Recruitment Group, SWT participants are frequently victims wage theft, and workplace harassment […]

July 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

House Democrats are expected to pass the Raise the Wage Act today after overcoming opposition from within party ranks. The bill would gradually raise the federal minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour by 2024. Once the minimum reached $15, it would be indexed to inflation. The bill […]

July 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Friday, July 12, Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta announced his resignation as Democrats and Republicans alike questioned his handling of a sex crimes case involving financier Jeffrey Epstein when Acosta was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Even before last week, when federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with new sex trafficking crimes, Acosta’s […]

September 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On September 18, McDonald’s employees at restaurants in ten cities will go on strike for one day in an effort to force McDonald’s management to confront sexual harassment in the workplace. Walkout planning has been led by “women’s committees” at dozens of McDonald’s locations, and hundreds of employees have attended meetings. Some of the strike’s […]

August 30, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

A new Gallup poll finds that Americans’ support for labor unions continues to remain high at 62 percent approval. This year’s level of support is the highest since 2003, when 65 percent of Americans approved of organized labor, and is on par with last year’s 61 percent figure. The same poll indicates that 39 percent […]

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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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