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September 19, 2023
News & Commentary

Sunah Chang

Canadian autoworkers continue negotiations with Ford’s operations in Canada, Trump announces a rally in Detroit next week with union workers, and talk shows backtrack on plans to return to air without writers.

A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

Jul 29, 2022 David Doorey

The recent wave of union organizing in the service sector has raised hopes that a fundamental transformation is occurring in the United States that will revitalize collective bargaining and bring millions of young workers into the labor movement. At the epicentre of this movement is a mass campaign to organize Starbucks’s employees. As of this […]

April 20, 2022
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Jason Vazquez

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is considering whether to insert a provision in its contracts precluding consulting firms dealing with the Democratic Party from helping employers thwart labor organizing efforts. The news surfaces a few weeks after media outlets exposed that Global Strategy Group (GSG), a major Democratic consulting firm, had been hired by Amazon […]

September 24, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law A.B. 701, a bill which outlaws employer-mandated production quotas for employees that prevent workers from using the bathroom, taking state-mandated breaks, or staying safe at warehouse distribution centers like Amazon. It also requires companies to be transparent about production quotas with employees, and employees cannot be […]

December 9, 2019
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Alisha Jarwala

Less than a year after Amazon dropped its plans to build a second headquarters in New York City, the company has signed a lease for 335,000 of office space in Hudson Yards, on Manhattan’s west side. The office will have around 1,500 employees. Amazon is taking the space without any tax credits or inducements from […]

August 12, 2019
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Lolita DePalma

On Friday, Oregon became the first state to offer 100% wage replacement for minimum-wage workers. The state will provide 12 weeks paid time off to new parents, survivors of domestic violence, and those who need to care for a family member, significant other, or any other “close associate.” Oregon’s law covers both undocumented and part-time […]

Sleeping to the Top: Recognizing a Sex-Based Stereotype

Jul 8, 2019 Amy Maurer

In February, the Fourth Circuit ruled on Parker v. Reema Consulting Services., holding that rumors in the workplace that a female manager received a series of promotions because she was sleeping with a male manager constituted sexual harassment under Title VII. The court based this ruling on the finding that there exists a persistent and […]

May 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The Editorial Board of the New York Daily News yesterday drew attention to what has been a repeated “pilgrimage” in a stymied search for equal rights and fair treatment: the yearly trip of “some of New York State’s 100,000 field hands to the Capitol” to ask for rights to overtime pay, an unpaid weekly day […]

The First Amendment and Judicial Overreach in Philadelphia

May 8, 2018 Andrew Strom

In 1964, Congress outlawed discrimination in employment based on race or sex, yet there is still a significant gap in the wages paid to white men compared to wages paid to other groups. Last year, the City of Philadelphia tried to address this wage gap by passing a law prohibiting employers from relying on a […]

October 29, 2017
News & Commentary

Suzanne Schlossberg

The Labor Department will file an appeal on Monday of the ruling which struck down the Obama administration’s overtime-pay rule. A Labor Department official said Friday evening that in filing the appeal, the Department is seeking to maintain Secretary Acosta’s ability to establish overtime regulations, and that the appeal should not be taken as an […]

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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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September 19, 2023

A Canadian Proposal for Starbucks Bargaining

April 20, 2022

September 24, 2021

December 9, 2019

August 12, 2019

Sleeping to the Top: Recognizing a Sex-Based Stereotype

May 21, 2018

The First Amendment and Judicial Overreach in Philadelphia

October 29, 2017