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April 28, 2024
News & Commentary

Otto Barenberg

UAW wins big in last-minute Daimler deal; DOL rule bolsters farmworker labor protections.

July 9, 2023
News & Commentary

Will Ebeler

A new report highlights sexual harassment faced by real estate agents; heat waves have disproportionate impact on farmworkers; and New York City’s new minimum wage for delivery drivers is temporarily stayed

July 7, 2023
News & Commentary

Greg Volynsky

Thousands of Los Angeles hotel workers return to work; major food delivery services sue to enjoin enforcement of a New York City gig worker wage rule; the Guardian reports on the resurgence of the United Farm Worker union.

Beyond the Tomato Fields: Extending a Worker-Driven Approach to Labor Standards Enforcement

Jun 20, 2023 Yoorie Chang

The Clean Slate for Worker Power project highlights the effectiveness and promises of the worker-driven social responsibility approach.

February 10, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Starbucks violated labor law by threatening and firing Colorado store; Fifth Circuit open to religious carveout for LGBTQ Title VII protections; Ninth Circuit hearing farmworker case on California law which could expand employer liability in contracting relationships.

September 29, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

In today’s News and Commentary: Incarcerated workers in Alabama go on labor strike; the Tenth Circuit hears oral argument regarding Biden’s $15 minimum wage plan for federal contractors; under pressure from employee Activism, Amazon raises wages; and Governor Newsom signs laws increasing pay transparency and bolstering farmworkers’ union access. The New York Times reports that thousands of […]

August 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and analysis of the effect of remote work on women. Today California farmworkers will march 19 miles […]

May 30, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news & commentary, employers resort to robots in response to labor shortages, Starbucks workers speak out against company’s customer-ratings system, and farmers adjust as the population of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. declines. Employers struggling to hire workers are turning to robots, the Wall Street Journal reports. Long a global laggard in the […]

Farmworker Overtime Benefits

Mar 14, 2022 Sara Tsai

The Current Overtime Threshold for Farmworkers On January 28, 2022, the New York Farm Laborer Wage Board made a landmark decision to lower the current 60-hour overtime threshold for farm workers to 40 hours. Workers start earning time-and-a-half pay for hours worked in excess of the OT threshold. Beginning in 2024, the threshold would decrease […]

December 20, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

This weekend, the Department of Labor announced an extended compliance grace period for its vaccinate-or-test rule, Bloomberg reports. The rule, which was reinstated by a divided Sixth Circuit panel, had required that companies with at least 100 employees implement vaccinate-or-test policies by January 4th. Companies will now have until January 10th, and OSHA will not […]

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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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Beyond the Tomato Fields: Extending a Worker-Driven Approach to Labor Standards Enforcement

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Farmworker Overtime Benefits

December 20, 2021