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October 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced forthcoming requirements by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management that encourage federal workers to join unions. The announcement flows from Biden’s April executive order which established the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment, led by Harris and Walsh. Specifically, federal […]

April 27, 2021
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Zachary Boullt

President Biden has formed a task force to make recommendations on how to promote labor organizing. Created by executive order, the task force will be led by Vice President Harris and will recommend both ways existing policies can be used to support organized labor and new policies that could assist as well. The task force […]

November 17, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Google announced on Friday that it would scale back its weekly all-hands-on-deck meetings. The weekly meetings, known as TGIF, allowed workers the opportunity to voice concerns about the company’s operation directly to executives. The meetings will now be held once per month, and will focus more narrowly on “product and business strategy.” The decision is […]

August 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

Today, Kamala Harris released her plan for Americans with disabilities. The plan promises to establish senior positions for persons with disabilities in the White House to allow for more input from the community on domestic and economic initiatives. Harris also says she would prioritize disability-inclusive recruitment throughout the federal government. On Wednesday, the F.B.I. raided […]

Sectoral Approach for Domestic Workers

Jul 16, 2019 Sharon Block

This week, Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapal introduced the National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (HR 3760 and S 2112). The bill provides a number of important protections for domestic workers. The bill corrects several historical exclusions of domestic workers from the nation’s social safety net – ensuring that domestic workers are covered […]

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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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