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June 14, 2023
News & Commentary

Peter Morgan

In today’s news: the NLRB returns to its Obama-era standard for identifying independent contractors, UPS agrees to the Teamster’s demand for air-conditioned trucks, and Alamo Drafthouse announces the likely elimination of the projectionist position days after its projectionists at a NYC location filed to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) took a crucial step […]

May 31, 2023
News & Commentary

Morgan Sperry

Starbucks is (yet again) violating the NLRA, Ben & Jerry's voluntarily recognizes its Scoopers union, and UPS workers prepare to strike for air conditioning and other benefits.

February 15, 2023
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

UPS lays off “22.4” drivers as contract negotiations approach, HarperCollins workers secure a tentative agreement, and new names are added to the short list for Labor Secretary.

January 27, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Judge rules firing of Whole Foods workers for wearing BLM masks legal; judge stands by order enforcing subpoenas against Starbucks Workers United; Fourth Circuit skeptical of UPS worker's ADA accommodation claim.

How Surveillance Capitalism Disempowers the Working Class

Jan 10, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Nurses have their footsteps tracked electronically. Cashiers are monitored by point-of-sale devices that measure their efficiency by the minute. Warehouse workers wear “haptic” wristbands evaluating their performance – and vibrating when they slack off. Delivery personnel contend with near-constant behavioral analysis by their phone, which tracks their location, speed, braking or how long they touch […]

August 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Yesterday Senate Democrats released their $3.5 trillion dollar budget blueprint that they hope to pass via reconciliation without needing any GOP votes. A publicly released memo sent by Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) details the provisions in the budget, including universal pre-K, free community college, and a path to lawful permanent status for undocumented […]

June 9, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

Senate Republicans today blocked a bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 7), that imposes higher standards and larger penalties on companies over claims of pay discrimination based on sex. Specifically, would limit an employer’s defense that a pay differential is based on a factor other than sex to only bona fide job-related factors in wage […]

January 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

OnLabor’s own Ben Sachs and Sharon Block have launched their recommendations for building a new labor law. As Sharon and Ben explain in a Newsweek op-ed, the recommendations are the culmination of the Clean Slate for Worker Power project, a multi-year collaboration of academics, activists, advocates, labor leaders and practitioners. The Clean Slate report proposes […]

August 31, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Governor Bruce Rauner (R) of Illinois vetoed a bill that would have allowed graduate research assistants at the state’s public universities to join labor unions. Currently, graduate teaching assistants — but not research assistants — at the University of Illinois are unionized with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), an American Federation of Teachers (AFT) affiliate. […]

August 8, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

In a hard-fought win for organized labor, Missouri voters repealed a so-called “right-to-work” law enacted last year by Missouri’s Republican state legislature and former Republican governor by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. The New York Times reports that the victory in Missouri follows other indicators of a resurgence in popular support for the labor movement, including […]

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