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January 24, 2025
News & Commentary

Holt McKeithan

In today’s News & Commentary, how unions can defend immigrant workers in the face of ICE raids, Utah Republicans advance a restrictive labor law, and how to use state and local funds to build worker power. The Trump administration has begun aggressively raiding worksites to find and deport undocumented immigrants. Based on a survey of […]

March 22, 2018
News & Commentary

Emily Miller

Despite its recent reversal of December’s Hy-Brand decision, the National Labor Relations Board is pushing forward with attempts to settle a case against McDonald’s which could have significant implications for joint-employer liability if allowed to go to trial. NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb successfully requested a sixty-day stay of the case in January to pursue […]

Janus’s Lawyers Want to Make a Federal Case Out of Every Public Employee Grievance

Dec 14, 2017 Andrew Strom

The petitioner’s opening brief in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 contains many eyebrow-raising assertions, but one of the most audacious claims is that “enforcement of a collective bargaining agreement, such as through the grievance process, is just as political an act as bargaining for that deal.” This one sweeping statement is practically all that Janus’s […]

Reforming Police Unions

Jul 31, 2017 Catherine Fisk

The many recent instances of police killing civilians have sparked calls to fire and prosecute the officers involved, and outrage at the police unions’ defense of accused officers and resistance to summary discipline. People rightly wonder why the union conceives of its obligation as protecting cops who appear to have engaged in clear misconduct rather […]

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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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March 22, 2018

Janus’s Lawyers Want to Make a Federal Case Out of Every Public Employee Grievance

Reforming Police Unions