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May 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Both houses of Mexico’s legislature passed a domestic workers’ rights bill, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to sign into law. The bill extends Mexico’s minimum wages and benefits — including social security, healthcare, and maternity leave — to the country’s domestic workers. The bill also bans children younger than 15 from engaging […]

April 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Adjunct faculty at Miami-Dade College (MDC) have voted to unionize with SEIU Florida; they will now constitute the largest adjunct faculty union in Florida and the “largest single-school adjunct collective bargaining unit in the country.” Adjunct faculty are excited to build on their union election victory to secure more public investment in higher education and […]

March 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

On Friday, a white supremacist attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing fifty people and injuring dozens more. In the aftermath of the attack, Facebook said that it removed 1.5 million videos of the mass shooting. However, directly hired facebook workers do not review violent material or other posts that violate the company’s policies. […]

January 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Valerie Strauss writes in the Washington Post about how, following the successful United Teachers Los Angeles strike, teachers across the country are preparing to potentially go on strike in the upcoming weeks to secure increased salaries and improved school funding. Strauss highlights public school teachers in Oakland, Denver, Indiana, and Virginia; as well as charter […]

October 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The trans-continental Marriott strike continues without flagging. Seven thousand workers in Boston, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, and throughout Hawaii are disrupting operations at dozens of Marriott-owned hotels. The SF Examiner describes the scene in downtown San Francisco, where more than 1,000 workers and supporters rallied Saturday. Chief among these strikers’ concerns is […]

July 22, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

800 adjunct and non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty at Fordham University reached their first contract with the university earlier this week. Fordham NTT faculty — represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — won 67%-90% raises for most adjuncts; a minimum salary of $64,000 by end of the contract for full-time NTT faculty; longer-term appointments; just […]

May 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The Editorial Board of the New York Daily News yesterday drew attention to what has been a repeated “pilgrimage” in a stymied search for equal rights and fair treatment: the yearly trip of “some of New York State’s 100,000 field hands to the Capitol” to ask for rights to overtime pay, an unpaid weekly day […]

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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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