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September 27, 2024
News & Commentary

Esther Ritchin

In today’s news and commentary, workers at Philadelphia sports arenas go on strike, workers at Hawaii’s largest hotel join hotel workers across the country on strike, and Apple retail workers in Oklahoma City ratify a contract. Workers at three South Philadelphia sports arenas–Citizens Bank Park, Lincoln Financial Field and Wells Fargo Center–went on strike this […]

December 21, 2023
News & Commentary

Michelle Berger

Status of Julie Su nomination, Wells Fargo union, BLM apparel decision.

September 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

In today’s News and Commentary: the Communication Workers of America reportedly blocked a tech watchdog report regarding Microsoft’s support for the United States military, Seattle school teachers enter their third day on strike, and California fast food employers have already begun organizing against the state’s new labor law. The Intercept reported a labor official belonging […]

August 16, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and United Steelworkers President Tom Conway are kicking off the USW’s “We Supply America” bus tour to advocate for the current congressional infrastructure bill. The bus tour partly hopes to highlight the connection between infrastructure investment and good-paying steelworker jobs. Starting at the USW Local 6787 union hall in Chesterton, the […]

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 […]

October 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that a feedback solicitation program at T-Mobile is not a “labor organization” within the meaning of Section 2(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In 2015, T-Mobile created a program called “T-Voice,” through which employees could submit “pain points” – a catch-all term for work-related issues. […]

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 […]

Brett Kavanaugh, “Common Sense,” and Class Prejudice

Jul 12, 2018 Andrew Strom

In ruling on a case involving the rights of telephone company employees to wear union t-shirts while they were working, Brett Kavanaugh began his opinion with the observation that “common sense sometimes matters in resolving legal disputes.” But, as the case illustrates, sometimes “common sense” can be a mask for class prejudice, and this is […]

May 21, 2017
News & Commentary

Alexander W. Miller

Updating our coverage yesterday, more than 35,000 members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are striking this weekend after the union and AT&T failed to agree to a new long-term contact by the union’s Friday afternoon deadline. The walkout forced stores across the country to close, though AT&T insisted that most of its locations were still open. […]

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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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