May 16th 2021
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As India’s massive farmers’ strike reaches its 20th day, the leaders of farmers’ unions escalated their protests yesterday by holding a day long hunger strike. The strike has been notable for not only its size but also its militant tactics: over the weekend farmers...
Unemployment claims dropped but held steady overall this past week, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. Around 709,000 Americans filed first-time claims within the past seven days, on top of roughly 300,000 additional claims for Pandemic...
On Sunday, September 27, the Little Rock Education Association announced that its member teachers would not be showing up for in-person classes and would instead be switching to virtual learning. The union cited failures of the schools to comply with COVID safety...
The twin crises of the day, the coronavirus pandemic and the continued systemic oppression of black and indigenous people of color, have energized a union drive in an unlikely place: the sparsely unionized food service industry.Workers at Tattersall Distillery, a...
An op-ed in the New York Times reports that the value of women’s unpaid labor across the world last year was $10.9 trillion. This estimate comes from a recent report by Oxfam, which calculates how much women would have made had they been paid the minimum wage in...
Last month, the WNBA signed a new tentative bargaining agreement with the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. As Teen Vogue explains, proponents hope that the agreement will improve the lives of players, who under the current agreement are often...
In a budget request released yesterday, the Trump Administration proposed to slash Department of Labor spending by 11% in fiscal year 2021. The National Labor Relations Board’s budget would be reduced by 10% and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s budget...
Yesterday John Myers at the Los Angeles Times profiled Lorena Gonzalez, the tenacious California assembly member behind AB5. The profile follows an almost-certain court victory for the pioneering law, which is aimed at curbing misclassification of workers in the...
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...
After months of bipartisan haggling, the House has passed one of the largest military-spending bills in history. Included in the $738 billion-dollar package are a 3% pay increase for military servicemembers and twelve weeks of parental leave for all federal...
Fiat Chrysler and UAW have reached a tentative deal on a new labor contract. Fiat Chrysler has agreed to add $4.5 billion in investments, which should provide 7,900 jobs over the course of four years. Local union leaders will meet Wednesday to decide whether to...
Happy Thanksgiving! Here at OnLabor, we are thankful for the workers who grow our food, transport our loved ones, and do the innumerable other things that make our celebrations possible. We are also thankful for an increasingly robust national conversation...