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March 24, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Duke opposing unionizing grad student workers; NLRB prosecutors find merit to ULPs against Amazon; Starbucks investors weighing outside audit of company's labor practices.

February 5, 2023
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

On Friday night, Disney World workers in Orlando overwhelmingly rejected Disney’s latest offer for a five-year contract. Unions that represent the 32,000 workers—ride operators, performers, restaurant and retail employees, bus drivers, and custodians—announced that 96 percent of the workers who cast votes voted against Disney’s contract offer. The previous three-year contract expired in October, and, […]

January 17, 2022
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The continued shortage of rapid antigen tests and PCR test appointments is hitting people who cannot work remotely especially hard, NPR-affiliate KQED reports. Many are put in an impossible situation: find a test or give up a paycheck you can’t afford to miss. And, like every other aspect of this pandemic, the racial and economic […]

December 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

Reuters reported yesterday that Kellogg Co. plans to hire permanent replacements for approximately 1,400 workers who have been on strike from four plants across the Midwest and Southeast since early October. Kellogg had previously threatened to replace striking workers but reiterated its threat—and announced that it had no plans to bargain further with the union—after […]

April 28, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

A recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found a significant and growing racial wealth gap between Black and white millennials. In 2016, the St. Louis Fed found that a typical millennial household had 40% less wealth than previous generations had at the same age. Re-visiting millennials three years later, the Study […]

Respecting the Right to Strike at Harvard

Dec 16, 2019 Sharon Block, Benjamin Sachs and Laura Weinrib

According to the Crimson, Harvard has circulated an email advising departments seeking to hire spring teaching fellows (and other student workers) to include certain language in job postings and offer letters. The Crimson reports that the email “recommends departments include a provision in postings and offer letters that conditions teaching fellow positions on whether candidates […]

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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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