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October 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

An overnight fire at an Amazon warehouse leads to the union’s first collective action: a sit-in in the break room followed by a “march on the boss.” A recent study published by Princeton researchers attributes plateauing income inequality in the U.S. to gains made by the lowest-wage workers and labor movements. And the NLRB rules […]

July 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

On Tuesday, the Senate voted 50-47 to approve Julie Su as Deputy Labor Secretary, second-in-command at the DOL. Union leaders embraced the development, characterizing it as “good news for workers” given Su’s “impressive record standing up and winning for working people.” Indeed, Su, who formerly served as Labor Secretary for the state of California, has […]

July 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

The Partnership for Working Families and the National Employment Law Project released a report yesterday outlining the harms posed by Proposition 22, the California ballot initiative backed by $110 million from Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Doordash. If passed, the ballot initiative would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from AB 5, a California law […]

February 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

The labor market is in good shape. Employers added 225,000 jobs in January. A New York Times article delves into the experience of black workers, whose wages are finally rising after a year of stagnation. While the unemployment rate for black workers over the past year has been the lowest recorded, established structural barriers remain. […]

December 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Construction unions, including North America’s Building Trades Unions and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, are concerned that the Trump administration may apply its apprenticeship plan to the construction industry. President Trump wants to ease the shortage of skilled workers by allowing employers to set standards for apprenticeships. Construction was originally excluded from this plan because […]

December 1, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Fiat Chrysler and UAW have reached a tentative deal on a new labor contract. Fiat Chrysler has agreed to add $4.5 billion in investments, which should provide 7,900 jobs over the course of four years. Local union leaders will meet Wednesday to decide whether to recommend Fiat Chrysler’s proposal to the membership. While their prior […]

November 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

In the aftermath of the Chicago teachers’ strike, which ended on October 31, students and teachers are struggling to catch up on missing work. Some high school seniors who were unable to take the SAT during the strike have now missed early admission deadlines. A few Illinois state schools have responded by extending admissions deadlines […]

October 9, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

The New York Times and the Washington Post reported on a new study of American tax burdens by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabrieal Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley. The study analyzes the “effective” tax rates paid by Americans since the 1960s—a measure that accounts for not just federal income taxes but corporate […]

September 27, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Eugene Scalia to be labor secretary. The vote was 53-44 along party lines. Scalia received support from 13 former career officials with the Labor Department, who wrote in a letter to lawmakers that Scalia was “very supportive of enforcement litigation to vindicate the rights of workers.” Senator Chuck Schumer remained […]

August 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Two former Jones Day associates, a married couple, filed suit against the firm alleging various forms of discrimination, retaliation, and interference. They first allege that the firm’s parental leave policy providing 10 weeks of paid leave to biological parents of any gender who are primary caregivers, but an additional 8 weeks to biological mothers as […]

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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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