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July 11, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

A Reuters report released over the weekend, which analyzed two decades of retail wages in the United States, found that union workers get paid more on average than their nonunion counterparts – and that the gap between the compensation of union and nonunion workers has been growing since the financial crisis. The report, which used […]

February 3, 2021
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Marina Multhaup

Senate Democrats voted yesterday to proceed with a Covid relief package without Republicans. After Biden promised that $2k checks would “go out the door” if Democrats won Georgia, stimulus checks and broader Covid relief have been delayed and decreased, as Mackenzie noted yesterday. Since taking office Biden had expressed openness to negotiating with Republicans on […]

December 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

UK health authorities administered the very first doses of the newly-approved Covid-19 vaccine yesterday. Members of the public could watch on television as individuals like Margaret Keenan, age 90, received the injection on camera. While the vaccine has yet to receive FDA approval in the United States, companies are already vying to guarantee their workers […]

January 17, 2020
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Working-class candidates are making personal and financial sacrifices to run for office, despite campaign guidelines specifically intended to make it easier for them to quit their jobs and run. A 2002 Federal Election Commission rule permits candidates running in a general election to pay themselves salaries from their campaign contributions at a per-diem rate equal […]

November 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This Black Friday, retail workers are organizing for dignity in the workplace. In the American Prospect, David Dayen profiles United for Respect, an alt-labor coalition and organizing powerhouse that’s fighting low pay and indecent working conditions in a retail industry that employs almost 16 million people. United for Respect grew out of OUR Walmart, a […]

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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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