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November 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Tuesday, the Seventh Circuit held that government employees who paid agency fees to public sector unions cannot recover fees collected prior to the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. The plaintiff in Tuesday’s case was Mark Janus himself. Writing for a three-judge panel, Chief Judge Diane Wood explained that the good-faith defense […]

May 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Delta flight attendants and ramp service workers are trying to unionize with the Machinists union. In response, Delta has posted a series of condescending flyers, sparking outrage and mockery from workers and community supporters. One poster stated, “Union dues cost around $700 a year. A new video game system with the latest hits sounds like […]

March 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Oakland teachers voted to ratify their union’s tentative agreement with the school district, thus ending their strike. As reported yesterday in OnLabor, the Oakland Education Association – Oakland Unified School District contract includes an 11% raise over three years, a one-time 3% bonus, reductions in class sizes in high needs schools, an increase in the […]

February 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Employee pay and benefits comprise a declining percentage (52.7%) of the gross domestic income, even as unemployment rates remain low and demand for workers high. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the percentage figure for labor income fell again in 2018’s third quarter, for the fourth straight quarter. To translate the effects of this […]

Polling the Teacher Walkouts: Strong Support for the Teachers, Unions, and Future Labor Action

Feb 20, 2019 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Nearly a year ago today, West Virginian public school teachers announced a statewide strike, launching a wave of unprecedented labor action among U.S. educators. The strike wave continued through public schools in a number of deep-red states, including Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona, as well as purple North Carolina and Colorado. Building on the momentum from […]

February 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Since late January, tens of thousands of unionized and non-unionized workers in Matamoros, Mexico — a city which borders Brownsville, Texas — have gone out on strike. Workers at maquiladoras (tax-advantaged factories), delivery drivers and others are calling for a 20% wage hike and a one-off 32,000-peso ($1662.96) bonus. Drivers are also calling for “paid […]

February 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Yesterday, teachers in Denver Public Schools walked off the job in the latest iteration of the teachers strikes that have swept the country. The strike, the city’s first in 25 years, follows over 14 months of negotiations between the teachers union and the school district that have focused on how to calculate base pay. Many […]

February 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

New Jersey on Monday became the fourth state to raise its hourly minimum wage to $15. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law, paving the way for the new minimum wage to be phased in over five years. New Jersey joins California, Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia in adopting 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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Polling the Teacher Walkouts: Strong Support for the Teachers, Unions, and Future Labor Action

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