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July 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Protests, walkoffs, and general strikes occurred in over 25 cities on July 20 as part of the Strike for Black Lives, focusing on racial justice and economic inequities. The call for a general strike was led by the SEIU and involved more than 20 unions and racial justice groups. Groups of health care workers, clerks, […]

July 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

According to the Department of Labor, roughly 1.3 million people nationwide filed for unemployment last week. Within each state, the fluctuation in weekly claims has varied, as analysts try to monitor the effects of increased COV-ID 19 cases on unemployment. While there has been evidence that there is a positive correlation between the two, inconsistencies in […]

July 7, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

Today, the country again confronts the question of ‘what to do about schools’ this coming fall. The executive’s position on the issue is clear: in a move seemingly calculated to pressure educational institutions to open their (physical) doors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement yesterday announced that international students studying at American schools are not permitted […]

June 22, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

As the country celebrates ‘improved‘ rates of employment, many states restrict unemployment benefit eligibility. The Virginia Employment Commission has suspended the employment benefits of over 12,000 claimants who refuse to return to work as restrictions on business are lifted across the state; unless such claimants are able to prove extenuating circumstances justifying their work refusal, […]

June 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Commentary continues to emerge about the Bureau of Labor Statistics May jobs report released on Friday. Ben Casselman writes for The New York Times that “No, the Jobs Report Wasn’t Rigged.” The bureau has indicated that it and the Census Bureau are investigating why the misclassification of some unemployed workers as “employed by absent from […]

June 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

In its monthly jobs report released on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the US unemployment rate has fallen to 13.3% in May. President Trump celebrated the news on Twitter, lauding the increased employment as an “amazing,” “stupendous,” and “incredible” accomplishment on his own part. However, BLS later admitted to mistakenly misclassifying some workers as […]

June 7, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As many readers experienced, OnLabor’s website was down for several hours yesterday, a problem caused by a flood of new access requests that overwhelmed the page. Much as we would like to think that the sudden spike in OnLabor traffic was legitimate, the more likely backstory is that the website experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) […]

May 29, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

In response to mass unemployment during the COVID-19 crisis, some members of Congress are proposing a “return-to-work” payment to incentivize people to go back to work. Such a suggestion is being billed as a potential compromise in the midst of a largely partisan debate about whether to maintain Congress’s $600 increase in the amount of unemployment funds provided to […]

May 26, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

In an attempt to circumvent drivers being classified as employees under Assembly Bill 5, rideshare companies have succeeded in gathering the signature necessary to add a ballot initiative to California’s November 3 ballot that, if passed, would cement drivers’ status as independent contractors while offering limited benefits. The ballot initiative campaign has been bankrolled by […]

May 22, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

The jobs report released today reflects a rise in unemployment claims, but at a declining pace for the seventh straight week following the record peak in late March. Weekly jobless claims totaled 2.4 million for the week ending on May 16, bringing the total since late March to 38.6 million. Though economists were hopeful that […]

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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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