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May 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced raises and expanded training for employees—except those at unionized stores and stores that have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election, the New York Times reports. Workers United has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the company. As Professor Matthew Bodie explained, not offering these benefits to […]

March 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Following months of litigation in front of the NLRB, Google has settled its case with four former Google engineers over claims it fired them for union organizing. The terms of the settlement are undisclosed, but over the past months the administrative law judge had ordered Google to produce over 1,500 documents it had previously sought […]

January 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

The Washington Post published an analysis of an underdiscussed dynamic in the pandemic labor market: the dramatic increase in employee resignations in the manufacturing sector. Part of the increase is attributable to the elevated Covid risk present in a job that inherently cannot be performed remotely. But, the Post explained, the larger driver of the […]

January 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

A rare move within the tech industry, a group of more than 400 Google works have unionized. The Alphabet Workers Union, affiliated with the CWA, formed as a minority union with the goal of structuring activism at Google. The unionization move comes after years of activism related to workplace harassment, pay structure, and ethical issues, […]

Today’s News & Commentary — December 7, 2020

Dec 7, 2020 Mackenzie Bouverat

Sunday saw almost 174,000 new cases of coronavirus. Hospital beds fill across the country, and most of California is returning to lock down (with a bizarre exception for retail establishments). As Rund reported on Friday, November saw the slowest rate of jobs growth since unemployment rates begun improving mid-summer. And the existing repertoire of pandemic […]

October 14, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

A California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday from Uber, Lyft, and the State of California about whether the state can recognize drivers as employees with rights to certain benefits under the state’s law AB 5. The companies were ordered to comply with wage and unemployment requirements by a California Superior Court judge in […]

Organizing for Morality in High Tech – Part One

Sep 30, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

This is the first post in a series of three. Check back tomorrow and Friday for part two and part three. It’s a fraught time for tech workers. The tech sector, which for decades has largely remained outside the realm of organized labor, has emerged over the past few years as a locus for collective […]

September 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

This week, Eater published the account of Miriam Wojtas, a bartender working in Seattle during the covid-19 pandemic. Grounded in the bartender’s experience, the piece contextualizes and reifies some of the most pressing concerns about the pandemic. Miriam took the job after being laid off from another food-service position at the height of Seattle’s outbreak, […]

July 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Senate Republicans are expected to unveil plans for a new stimulus package today. White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow stated that the new plan will include another round of $1,200 checks for Americans. The Republican plan will also include enhanced unemployment benefits. However, it will deviate from the previous stimulus package which provided individuals with […]

They’re Looking Out for the Internet. But Who’s Looking Out for Them?

Apr 8, 2020 Jacki Silbermann

Ensuring that internet searches and social networking feeds remain free of graphic violence and explicit sexual content is no easy task. Companies like Facebook, Google and YouTube rely on thousands of content moderators in the U.S. and abroad to remove illegal or otherwise unacceptable content from their internet platforms every day. While much of the […]

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Law. Workers. Organizing.

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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