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August 25, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board held in Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation that the employees of a property’s contractor or licensee do not have the same access rights under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act as the employees of the property owner. In so doing, the Board overruled two Obama-era precedents, […]

July 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Friday, July 12, Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta announced his resignation as Democrats and Republicans alike questioned his handling of a sex crimes case involving financier Jeffrey Epstein when Acosta was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Even before last week, when federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with new sex trafficking crimes, Acosta’s […]

April 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

Six women have sued the law firm Jones Day for pregnancy and gender discrimination. The former associates claim that the firm’s “fraternity culture” benefits male attorneys to the detriment of women, who are routinely excluded from the best assignments and denied promotions and pay raises. The pregnancy discrimination claims are the latest in a series […]

June 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

This morning the White House plans to announce a proposal to merge the Departments of Labor and Education. The idea is just the latest iteration of a decades-long conservative effort to downsize the federal government, but an early step in a broader restructuring planned under the current administration. Any merger would require congressional approval, however, […]

May 17, 2018
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

A group of MIT engineers have managed to replace human chefs with robots, and a new restaurant in Boston will now operate with a fully robotic kitchen. The restaurant, named Spyce, will serve mostly vegetarian meals under the supervision of Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud. Every human role in the restaurant will be automated, including touch-screens […]

October 24, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget proposal, taxes on ride share companies would increase by 15 cents per ride in 2018 and by 5 cents more per ride in 2019. This move comes in part due to advocacy by taxi companies, but ride share would remain the less expensive option in many cases. The proposed increase […]

August 4, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

This week, President Trump endorsed legislation that would halve legal immigration to the United States in the next decade, by drastically reducing the number of immigrants admitted because of family ties. Although the number admitted based on jobs skills would remain steady at around 140,000, the legislation would award merit-based green cards using a points […]

July 24, 2017
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer published an op-ed in today’s N.Y. Times, in which he outlined the Democratic Party’s “better deal” for American workers. The three stated goals of the new agenda are to increase pay, reduce expenses, and provide workers with tools for the new economy. Democrats will announce policy proposals to stop prescription […]

June 8, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Testifying before a House of Representatives subcommittee, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta highlighted apprenticeships and job training. These topics also seem to be current priorities for President Trump. Secretary Acosta’s testimony predictably signaled efforts to change the overtime rule and the fiduciary rule (which we described here and here), both from the Obama era. In […]

June 6, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

Fewer American teenagers are looking for summer jobs, despite more employers looking to hire seasonal workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects this summer’s teen workforce participation rate to be around 40% as compared with 70% in the late 1980s. The BLS has identified several potential causes for this drop-off including: (1) increased summer […]

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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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