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August 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Approximately 1.1 million Americans filed for unemployment within the last week, a marked increase from the start of August. The new numbers come amidst a legislative stalemate between House Democratic lawmakers and the President over an extension of booster unemployment benefits, previously set at a flat rate of $600 per week. Many Republicans object that […]

August 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Yesterday marked one hundred years since the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment. Chabeli Carrazana writes on the key role the labor movement played in the fight for women’s suffrage. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was a pivotal moment galvanizing working women in the fight for voting rights. Carrazana draws parallels to modern labor struggles driving […]

April 11, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Tuesday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the right of unions to serve as the exclusive representatives of employees in public sector bargaining units. In Branch v. Commonwealth Employment Relations Board, four government employees represented by unions challenged the state’s labor law on constitutional grounds, claiming that the law’s mandatory agency fee and exclusive […]

December 6, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission voted this week to create a minimum pay standard for the approximately 80,000 drivers in the city working for transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, Juno, and Via. The standard establishes a per-minute and per-mile formula that is expected to create a pay floor of $17.22 net […]

A Bad McSettlement

Jan 29, 2018 Michael M. Oswalt

The NLRB’s General Counsel recently sought a 60-day stay to try to settle unfair labor practice charges filed by the Fight for $15 campaign against McDonald’s and various franchisees as joint employers equally responsible for illegal retaliation. While Board proceedings resolve before judgments all the time, this is the wrong case for a settlement.

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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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