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November 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

Approximately 100 Starbucks employees at three, Buffalo-area stores will be mailed ballots by the NLRB on Wednesday. Ahead of the vote, which will occur over the course of four weeks, Bloomberg reports that the company has stepped up its aggressive anti-union campaign, bringing in founder and former CEO Howard Schultz to speak to employees. In […]

October 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

On Tuesday, former Apple employee Ashley Gjovik filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that certain company policies and statements from management that restrict disclosure of internal company information violate federal labor laws. At issue are several provisions in Apple’s employee handbook that allegedly bar disclosing “business information,” speaking to reporters, […]

April 26, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

In a class action minimum wage suit, a California state appellate court last Friday held that the University of California is exempt from state statutes and regulations governing wages and benefits for public employees, including minimum wage requirements. The case, Gomez v. Regents of Univ. of Cal. involves a class of hourly employees at UC […]

April 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Multiple developments for workplace safety during the pandemic are taking place on the federal and state level. With some states beginning to loosen restrictions such as masking, OSHA is poised to issue new emergency regulations as early as this week. While what these regulations could contain is up to speculation, some lawyer analysts believe the […]

January 17, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Some 6,000 front-line workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote by mail in February and March on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the NLRB said Friday. The NLRB rejected Amazon’s push to hold the election in-person, citing safety concerns in light of COVID-19. Ballots will be mailed […]

May 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

A group of Uber and Lyft drivers filed a lawsuit Monday against Governor Cuomo, the New York Department of Labor, and the New York Commissioner of Labor, alleging New York illegally failed to pay standard unemployment benefits to drivers in a timely manner during the coronavirus pandemic. The suit claims that the NYDOL treats app-based […]

April 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Minnie Che

According to a study by Professor Doyne Farmer at the University of Oxford, the United States employment rate is likely to drop 24% in the near future, accompanied by a 17% drop in wages and 22% drop in economic activity due to covid-19. The impact of the pandemic will be most heavily felt by the […]

April 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

Workers providing essential services during the pandemic have complained to OSHA about the dangerous conditions they face, as Alexandra wrote Friday. But OSHA is leaving most of those workers out of workplace safety protections, ProPublica reports. In particular, OSHA is virtually ignoring non-medical workplaces. OSHA will not require non-medical employers to investigate whether COVID-19 cases […]

Litigating ICE’s “Voluntary Work Program”

Apr 10, 2020 Annie Hollister

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers are the nation’s largest employer of immigrant labor. According to the New York Times at least 60,000 immigrants every year work in detention centers through federally-authorized “Voluntary Work Programs.” In this capacity, immigrants detained across the United States prepare meals for, clean, and maintain the facilities in […]

March 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft have announced plans to provide funds for drivers affected by coronavirus. According to The Hill, an Uber spokesperson stated on Friday that the rideshare company will make funds available to drivers infected or quarantined due to the virus to make up for up to 14 days of lost revenue. Though […]

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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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Litigating ICE’s “Voluntary Work Program”

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