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Clean Slate for Budget Reconciliation: How Democrats Can Reform Labor Rights, Even with the Filibuster

Feb 11, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

President Joe Biden’s ambitious pro-worker agenda is confronting a cruel legislative reality. Thanks to the Senate filibuster—a parliamentary maneuver that blocks legislation indefinitely barring a 60-vote override—Democrats’ razor-thin Senate margins make it exceedingly difficult for President Biden to deliver on his pledge to pass the recently reintroduced PRO Act and other Clean Slate Project reforms. […]

June 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Since the pandemic began, declines in workforce participation have proven particularly stark among women. Experts attribute this phenomenon in part to women’s disproportionate representation in service-sector businesses, which have been especially affected by the pandemic. Turmoil in the child care industry has also played a major role; around 60% of U.S. child care centers closed […]

June 7, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As many readers experienced, OnLabor’s website was down for several hours yesterday, a problem caused by a flood of new access requests that overwhelmed the page. Much as we would like to think that the sudden spike in OnLabor traffic was legitimate, the more likely backstory is that the website experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) […]

Police Unions: It’s Time to Change the Law and End the Abuse

Jun 4, 2020 Benjamin Sachs

Collective action is the source of working people’s power. It is the source of the labor movement’s power. It is the source of power that has enabled workers to secure – through unionization and collective bargaining – fairness and dignity at work, living wages, protection against discrimination and harassment, and safe and healthy working conditions. […]

May 18, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

On Friday, the House passed a $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. Though the bill is likely doomed as it faces Republican opposition in the Senate and a threat of veto from President Trump, it represents House Democrats’ first offer at the negotiating table, the New York Times reports. The package would send $875 billion to […]

March 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft have announced plans to provide funds for drivers affected by coronavirus. According to The Hill, an Uber spokesperson stated on Friday that the rideshare company will make funds available to drivers infected or quarantined due to the virus to make up for up to 14 days of lost revenue. Though […]

March 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Working class life is killing Americans, according to The New York Times. For example, the overall death rate for non-Hispanic whites without college degrees aged 45-54 has increased dramatically since the 1990’s, driven in part by a near doubling in the rate of “deaths of despair” caused by suicide, drug overdose, or alcoholism. Economists Anne […]

February 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Members of Nevada’s Culinary Workers Union participated in the state’s Democratic caucus Saturday, including at “strip caucuses” located at their workplaces in casinos and hotels. The Union did not endorse a candidate this year, but as The New York Times details, it did single out Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All proposal for criticism, telling its […]

February 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Last month, the WNBA signed a new tentative bargaining agreement with the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. As Teen Vogue explains, proponents hope that the agreement will improve the lives of players, who under the current agreement are often forced to take second jobs in the off-season. Bargaining committee member Layshia Clarendon said that she […]

February 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Child care workers in California have called for a union election. The election is part of a sixteen-year organizing effort by Child Care Providers United, a joint initiative from the SEIU and AFSCME. Workers who provide child care services to California families on government subsidy were granted collective bargaining rights via state legislation introduced late […]

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