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April 10, 2023
News & Commentary

Morgan Sperry

Los Angeles Unified School District workers have approved a union contract after last month's three-day strike over pay and staffing and, for the first time in the school’s 250+ year history, Rutgers University faculty and staff are on strike.

March 27, 2023
News & Commentary

Morgan Sperry

Striking Los Angeles school workers have reached a tentative deal with the Los Angeles Unified School District, law professors have filed an amicus brief to contest the use of arbitration in former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores’s employment discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, and the Senate HELP Committee gears up for Wednesday’s Howard Schultz testimony.

March 22, 2023
News & Commentary

Peter Morgan

NLRB's General Counsel issues two memos clarifying priorities and a recent Board decision, LA school workers go on strike, and Bloomberg Law reports higher pay raises from labor contracts

February 4, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

The Trump administration continues its regulatory rulemaking push. Bloomberg Law reported yesterday on a proposed rule submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) by the U.S. Department Labor last Friday that would require unions to disclose various kinds of financial information related to union trusts. The rule was proposed last May. Submission […]

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 […]

January 29, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Valerie Strauss writes in the Washington Post about how, following the successful United Teachers Los Angeles strike, teachers across the country are preparing to potentially go on strike in the upcoming weeks to secure increased salaries and improved school funding. Strauss highlights public school teachers in Oakland, Denver, Indiana, and Virginia; as well as charter […]

January 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Sarah Jaffe writes in The Nation about “The Radical Organizing that Paved the Way” for the ongoing LA Teachers’ Strike. In the wake of the financial crisis, a group of LA teachers formed the Union Power caucus to fight back against mass layoffs of teachers and other school staff. In 2014, the Union Power caucus […]

Worker Voice Beyond Wages, Hours and Terms and Conditions of Employment

Jan 17, 2019 Sharon Block

This week, United Teachers Los Angeles called their first strike in decades. While the parties are negotiating over wages and staffing, a central issue in the dispute is the much bigger question of underfunding of the public school system. Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, repairs to crumbling school buildings, and the hiring of […]

January 16, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced a rare, unanimous victory for workers in New Prime v. Oliveira, ruling that transportation workers cannot be forced into mandatory arbitration when their rights are violated at work. Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act has a carveout for “contracts of employment of seaman, railroad workers, or any other class […]

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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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