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November 3, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Tuesday was election day in the United States, as millions of Americans across the country cast ballots to select their next mayors, city councilors, school board members, congressional representatives, or governors. Republican Glenn Youngkin will be the next governor of Virginia, winning barely over fifty percent of the vote in a tight election against Democrat […]

September 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

As the corporate funded drive to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom enters its final phase, the governor’s campaign has increasingly relied on labor unions to galvanize supporters. Indeed, unions in the Golden State have spent millions to combat what they have framed as an “anti-worker” and “anti-union” recall effort. Although a wave of support from […]

October 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Workers at the New Yorker union have won their fight for a just cause provision. For the first time in the magazine’s 95 year history, its workers will not be at-will employees, and have a guarantee that they will only be disciplined or fired for cause. While negotiations for a final contract are ongoing, both […]

September 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

In response to the University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees’ Organization voting to extend their strike by five days, the University of Michigan has filed a request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the strike. The GEO has been on strike since September 8 and has published a list of demands for issues […]

A Safer, More Equitable Reopening

May 20, 2020 Sharon Block, Brishen Rogers and Benjamin Sachs

As the country moves toward “reopening,” we face a critical pair of questions. The first is how businesses can begin operating again while ensuring the safety of the millions of workers who will return to their jobs. It is clear that we cannot rely on the Trump administration to accomplish this crucial task – after […]

March 22, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Labor unions representing state government workers are cooperating with their employers’ COVID-19 emergency orders but wary of permanent changes to collective bargaining arrangements, according to The Intercept. In Minnesota, Democratic Governor Tim Walz issued an order Tuesday extending paid leave to all state employees but also authorizing agency heads to waive parts of collective bargaining […]

March 3, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Over the weekend, Jeremy Brecher wrote for Common Dreams about Minneapolis janitorial workers who engaged in a one-day walkout last Thursday. The janitorial workers are part of Service Employees International Union Local 26 and are employed by a range of different companies in the Minneapolis area. The cleaning workers’ contract expired in December, but the […]

December 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Tomorrow’s Democratic presidential primary debate, scheduled to take place at Loyola Marymount University, will go on as planned after university workers reached a deal with Sodexo. Unite Here Local 11, the union representing roughly 150 campus cooks, dishwashers, and cashiers at Loyola Marymount, announced yesterday that Sodexo had agreed to a tentative contract Monday night, […]

December 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Presidential candidates are planning to boycott the upcoming Democratic debate if an ongoing labor dispute at Loyola Marymount University is not resolved. Food service workers at Loyola Marymount, which is scheduled to host the debate, have been in negotiations over a new union contract since last December. The workers are represented by Unite HERE Local […]

December 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Construction unions, including North America’s Building Trades Unions and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, are concerned that the Trump administration may apply its apprenticeship plan to the construction industry. President Trump wants to ease the shortage of skilled workers by allowing employers to set standards for apprenticeships. Construction was originally excluded from this plan because […]

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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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