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October 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

The New York Times acquired an internal Department of Labor memo issued on September 24 instructing heads of DOL enforcement agencies not to use issued labor violation citations as the basis for press releases. The memo, issued by Deputy Secretary Patrick Pizzella, instructs that press releases should be issued instead after a court judgment or […]

October 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

The Senate is set to vote on two stimulus measures this Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN reports. They will first vote on the stand-alone Paycheck Protection Program designed to provide relief to small businesses. Then, on Wednesday, Senate Republicans will try to pass a $500 billion stimulus package. The stimulus package is the same package House […]

June 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As Mackenzie and Zach discussed earlier this week, responses to recent protests by union leaders have reflected a growing divide within the movement. On Monday, the Writers Guild of America, East joined existing calls by the Flight Attendants and numerous labor-adjacent organizations to expel the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) from the AFL-CIO. In […]

February 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Yesterday, Kickstarter employees voted to unionize, becoming the first well-known technology company to do so. The New York Times reports that the employees will be affiliated with the Office and Professional Employees International Union and will begin contract negotiations over equal pay and hiring practices. Kickstarter’s union drive began last year, drawing widespread attention when […]

July 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released an opinion letter concluding that the time long-haul truckers spend sleeping in the berths of their vehicles is presumptively off-duty and not compensable. The opinion reverses earlier WHD guidance which had limited the amount of driver sleeping time that employers could exclude when determining […]

June 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

The Supreme Court has declined an invitation to substantially weaken the administrative state. In a divided decision, the Court chose not to overturn Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., which require courts to defer to administrative agencies’ interpretations of their own regulations. Nonetheless, yesterday’s result introduced a narrower test for […]

June 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

Five senators signed on to a letter by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) calling on McDonald’s to require franchisees to implement its newly updated harassment policies. The letter points out that “independently owned operations make up the vast majority of the over 14,000 McDonald’s locations across the U.S” and that Steve Easterbrook, McDonald’s CEO, has only […]

June 6, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In the ongoing case of Chamber of Commerce v. City of Seattle dealing with the legality of Seattle’s for-hire vehicle driver collective bargaining ordinance, the Chamber and co-plaintiffs moved for summary judgment in February, arguing that the ordinance is preempted by federal antitrust law. The City of Seattle and co-defendants then sought discovery to gather […]

April 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

On Thursday, Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, charged a Massachusetts district court judge and a former court officer with three federal obstruction offenses. Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph and Wesley McGregor are accused of helping a defendant in their courtroom, an undocumented immigrant, leave through the backdoor of the courthouse while […]

April 25, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In Lamps Plus v. Varela, the Supreme Court held yesterday that “[u]nder the Federal Arbitration Act, an ambiguous agreement cannot provide the necessary contractual basis for concluding that the parties agreed to submit to class arbitration.” In the case, Lamps Plus fell prey to a hacker’s scheme and disclosed the tax information of about 1,300 […]

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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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