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October 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Congressional Democrats’ proposal to institute a national paid family and medical leave program for workers has been officially cut from Congress’s upcoming reconciliation bill, according to several outlets yesterday. The proposal, which initially sought to establish twelve weeks of paid leave for all workers, had been whittled down substantially in recent weeks in the face […]

July 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided, party-line vote to end Senate debate on the nominee, marks an end to a bitterly partisan Senate debate […]

June 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has published its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (ETS) to its website this morning. The rule mandates that covered employers implement comprehensive COVID-19 safety plans, install barriers and improved ventilation, provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to employees, enforce social distancing, and grant employees paid time off for vaccinations and […]

Dissent in Exile

Jan 7, 2020 Benjamin Sachs

With the departure of Member Lauren McFerran, the National Labor Relations Board is now left with just three members – all from the same political party. Given the track record of these remaining Board members, we are likely to witness in the coming months a series of ideological opinions that curtail workers’ rights and that […]

Trump’s Own NLRB May Doom His Re-election Chances

Sep 24, 2019 Andrew Strom

In 2016, Donald Trump was able to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in part by promising that he would care about the needs of regular working people. But as 2020 approaches, Trump’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are making it much harder for him to run for re-election as the workers’ friend. Organizing […]

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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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Dissent in Exile

Trump’s Own NLRB May Doom His Re-election Chances