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October 9, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Newsom vetoes anti-caste discrimination bill; NLRB judge finds Howard Schultz violated labor law; DOL investigating Tyson and Perdue for child labor violations.

October 3, 2023
News & Commentary

Sunah Chang

Governor Newsom vetoes a bill that would have extended unemployment payments to striking workers, the UAW strike continues as GM and Ford lay off hundreds of workers, and the EEOC circulates a new guidance on workplace harassment.

California’s Garment Worker Protection Act Serves as a Victory Against Rampant Wage Theft and Signals a Call for Accountability in All Supply Chains

Nov 17, 2021 Gwendolyn Gissendanner

On September 27th, California became the first state to require hourly pay—as opposed to piece-rate pay—for garment workers, thus ensuring garment workers actually earn the minimum wage. After signing the Garment Worker Protection Act (SB 62) into law, Governor Newsom called SB 62 a “nation leading” bill to combat typical, exploitative practices that overwhelmingly lower […]

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 […]

July 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The United States’ mass-vaccination campaign has stalled since hitting its apex in mid-April, a development which has alarmed public health officials in the Biden administration and across the country. In the midst of a fresh surge of Covid cases, then, exhortations that employers compel their workforce to receive inoculations have intensified. The push for vaccination mandates received a figurative shot in the arm on Monday, as […]

Invisible & Ignored Again: Domestic Workers Excluded from Vaccine Administration

Feb 13, 2021 Juan Espinoza Muñoz

A few weeks ago, I created a petition because domestic workers were not included in the current phase of vaccine administration. I did this because my mom and several of my aunts clean houses– including those of doctors exposed to Covid patients. Like most first-generation children of immigrants that help their parents navigate healthcare, I […]

November 6, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Tuesday, Harvard’s graduate student union announced that it will strike if the University fails to agree to what the union deems a fair contract agreement by December 3, the final day of classes for the fall semester. In an email to its members, the union explained that “The Bargaining Committee will continue to negotiate […]

OnLabor

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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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October 9, 2023

October 3, 2023

California’s Garment Worker Protection Act Serves as a Victory Against Rampant Wage Theft and Signals a Call for Accountability in All Supply Chains

September 8, 2021

July 28, 2021

Invisible & Ignored Again: Domestic Workers Excluded from Vaccine Administration

November 6, 2019