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Postdoc Unions Empower Workers in UC Strike and Beyond

Nov 22, 2022 Sean McDonough

As a major UC grad-student strike gets underway, what's the state of unionization for postdocs?

November 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Huge UC grad-student strike begins; Labor Department uncovers disturbing child-labor violations; Twitter layoffs continue

November 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Biden NLRB proposes changes to its decertification rules; Ontario education workers plan to strike in the face of legislation threatening fines of $4,000/day per worker; Illinois voters gear up for a constitutional amendment to ban right-to-work laws in the state

October 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Julia Deng

Military contractors are accused of human trafficking, cargo ships go east to avoid labor union activity, and California fast-food industry players face complaints that they violated state election law.

Striketober Must Have Really Scared the Supreme Court

Oct 25, 2022 Andrew Strom

Worker strikes in the U.S. are already rare measures of last resort. The Supreme Court might decide to discourage them even further.

September 30, 2022
News & Commentary

Julia Deng

In today’s News and Commentary: workers at SFO ended their strike and are putting a contract up to a vote, a federal magistrate approved a judgement against an Alabama employer accused of child labor, a California state agency penalized home care agencies for worker misclassification, and the NLRB upheld a mail-in election rule. Yesterday, one […]

September 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News and Commentary: Congressional staffers form the first-ever union, more Congressional offices hold union elections, and the last remaining rail union signs a tentative agreement. Staffers in the office of Democratic Congressmember Andy Levin voted unanimously to unionize. While staffers voted last week, the union announced the results on Monday. This marks the […]

September 26, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: Union workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art strike for better wages and healthcare; and a “Workers’ Right Amendment” will be on the ballot in Illinois this fall. Nearly 200 union workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are set to strike today, as contract negotiations with the Museum’s management […]

September 25, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, a formerly incarcerated individual sues Amazon due to illegal background checks, and Starbucks workers at a Boston location declare victory after 64 days of striking. On September 22, Mr. Lerma, a formerly incarcerated individual, filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon and Accurate Background claiming that the companies illegally […]

September 21, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

In Liverpool, U.K., hundreds of dock workers at the fifth-largest port in the country walked off the job on Tuesday, launching a two-week strike in demand of higher wages amid Britain’s ongoing cost of living crisis. The general secretary of the union representing the dock workers insisted that the workers “are on strike for one […]

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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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