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April 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

A recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found a significant and growing racial wealth gap between Black and white millennials. In 2016, the St. Louis Fed found that a typical millennial household had 40% less wealth than previous generations had at the same age. Re-visiting millennials three years later, the Study […]

June 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Commentary continues to emerge about the Bureau of Labor Statistics May jobs report released on Friday. Ben Casselman writes for The New York Times that “No, the Jobs Report Wasn’t Rigged.” The bureau has indicated that it and the Census Bureau are investigating why the misclassification of some unemployed workers as “employed by absent from […]

January 16, 2020
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Babb v. Wilkie. The question before the Court was whether federal workers alleging age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must show that the adverse action would not have happened “but for” their age, or whether the government can be held liable if age […]

Harvard Students Deserve a Fair Contract

Dec 4, 2019 Annie Hollister

During my first year at Harvard Law School, a professor of mine won a prestigious academic award. The prize, he told us, was a research grant so large he didn’t know what to do with it. Did we have any suggestions? At the time, the law school was paying me $11.50 per hour to conduct […]

August 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate featured a vigorous exchange over whether union members would abandon the Democrats if the party endorsed Medicare for All. Representative Tim Ryan said that such a plan “will tell the union members that give away wages in order to get good health care that they will lose their health care because […]

July 19, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

President Trump plans to nominate Eugene Scalia to succeed Alexander Acosta as Secretary of Labor. Scalia—son of Nino—served as Solicitor of Labor under President George W. Bush, and is currently Co-Chair of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Group at Gibson Dunn. Scalia has spent his career representing management and business interests in labor, employment, and […]

June 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Graduate student workers at the University of Chicago held a three day strike last week to pressure the university to recognize and bargain with their union, Graduate Students United. As previously reported in OnLabor, UChicago student workers voted to unionize nineteen months ago, but the university administration has yet to sit down for contract negotiations. […]

May 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

This Friday is the deadline for the California Assembly to send bills originating in the chamber to the state senate for approval. One of those bills, AB-5, seeks to codify and clarify the holding of last year’s California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc., which laid out a three-prong test that employers must […]

May 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule that will prevent independent provider (IP) homecare workers paid by Medicaid from deducting union dues from their paychecks. SEIU, which represents around 500,000 homecare workers across the country, announced that it will challenge the new rule in court; and five state attorneys general are suing as well, […]

May 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday the NLRB ruled against the UAW in its bid for a new election to represent both skilled production and maintenance employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In December 2015, the Board certified the UAW as the representative of only the maintenance employees following an election victory for that unit after the union’s […]

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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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