@OnLaborBlog

A blog covering workers, unions, and their politics.

 Cambridge, MA
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NEW: Hundreds of tenants have launched the largest rent strike in decades. They're demanding a 3% national rent cap, collective rent bargaining, and more. These Kansas City tenants aren't just targeting their landlords, they're aiming at how the government treats renters.
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It's not just opposition to the PRO Act. As @bsachs noted, if Vance likes sectoral bargaining, why did he vote to kill the NLRB's joint employer rule, which could expand union footprints within sectors?
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And another thing! The U. of California’s TRO flouts CA’s Little Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction act. On either UAW’s (ULP strike) or UC’s (political strike) view, the narrow "Boys Markets" exception wouldn’t apply, even if CA follows the feds. Details 👇 onlabor.org/the-uc-strike-in…

The UC Strike Injunction’s Second Fatal Flaw ✦ OnLabor

Noah Zatz on the second procedural issue arising from a recent court order enjoining the UC grad student ULP strike.

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Now in @OnLaborBlog, how the U. of Caliornia's TRO against the UAW strike is serious & destructive judicial overreach. This piece focuses on the end run around the CA labor board's "exclusive jurisdiction" over unfair labor practice (ULP) determinations. onlabor.org/the-uc-uaw-no-st…

The University of California Strike Injunction (Part 1) ✦ OnLabor

Noah Zatz on the court order enjoining the strike by UC grad students.

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Workers shouldn’t have to risk their lives because of #ExtremeHeat. @OSHA_DOL is developing a rule but it’s gonna take a while. (Plus SCOTUS 😒). All hands on deck! States & local govt must act & of course workers/unions are key. My latest in @nytimes nytimes.com/2024/06/21/opini…

Opinion | Workers Shouldn’t Have to Risk Their Lives in Heat Waves (Gift Article)

Laws aren’t keeping pace with the risks climate change poses to workers laboring under sweltering conditions.

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Column: How anti-union southern governors may be violating federal law latimes.com/business/story/2…

Column: How anti-union Southern governors may be violating federal law

Six Southern governors are fighting the UAW's organizing campaign in their states, but they may have stepped over the legal line.

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When politicians warn that unionization will cause auto plants to close or relocate, that interferes with workers' free choice. The NLRB should consider if such interference—when part of a broader anti-union campaign—denies workers a free & fair election onlabor.org/anti-union-gover…
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"The Board should thus consider such interventions by elected officials to be objectionable conduct that, when part of a broader anti-union campaign run by the employer, can deprive workers of their right to a free and fair election." Read more from @bsachs @OnLaborBlog ⬇️
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Anti-Union Governors and Employee Free Choice onlabor.org/anti-union-gover… via @OnLaborBlog
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"Workers for a long time have been told, 'You can't organize in the South. The labor movement is on a downslide; it's not possible.' The @UAW showed that it can be done, and I think that just opens up a window of possibility." - CLJE's @sharblock on why this shift is historic
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For centuries, the Southern economy has been a rigged game—a scheme designed to enrich a select few at the expense of the many. At Daimler Truck, Volkswagen and Mercedes, we’re building a new economic model in the South.
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Do not tell me that there’s no diff btwn political parties for working people. Today @POTUS’s admin expanded overtime protections, protected retirement savers from fees and banned noncompetes. Just wait-next up: Repubs will try to kill all 3 b/c that’s what corporations want.
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The Supreme Court heard Starbucks' challenges to the NLRB as part of the "Memphis 7" case today. @sharblock had previously told @NPR that it's the exact wrong time for the Court to make it harder for federal labor officials to make it harder to organize ⬇️ npr.org/2024/04/23/122695573…

What the Starbucks case at the Supreme Court is all about. Hint: It's not coffee

Starbucks and some of its baristas have been in a contentious fight over unionizing since 2021. Now, the Supreme Court considers a case that could have implications for unions far beyond Starbucks.

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Today's the day! At 2 pm ET we'll get the @FTC's final answer on banning #noncompetes for workers. Read @sandeepvaheesan & @danielahanley @OnLaborBlog for why this is a BFD (as some might say). onlabor.org/the-death-of-the…

The Death of the Non-Compete Clause May Be Imminent ✦ OnLabor

Sandeep Vaheesan and Daniel Hanley on the coercive nature of non-compete clauses and recent efforts to outlaw such contracts.

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Congratulations to the workers of the TN Volkswagen plant and to the @UAW on this historic win. The energy this brings to the labor movement and the improvements it will bring to workers' lives is no small feat. In solidarity ✊
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"The UAW said Friday night that it made history with its biggest organizing win in decades when workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant in Tennessee voted to join the union." freep.com/story/money/cars/2…

UAW scores historic landslide victory to unionize the first foreign automaker in the US

Workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga plant in Tennessee gave 73% approval to joining the UAW, which kept its momentum from its fall strike.

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If you enjoy irony and worker power, you will love @BSachs's post (originally on @OnLaborBlog) that the right-wingers at ALEC might help unions organize with their attacks on worker organizing. Read his updated post on @BurnesCenter's @PowerAtWorkBlog: poweratwork.us/alec-onlabor
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Read more about the struggle between the @NLRB and the companies that are questioning its constitutionality here (featuring our own @sharblock): thehill.com/business/4491063…

Corporate giants aim to hobble National Labor Relations Board

Corporate giants are taking aim at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and attempting to hobble the agency in charge of protecting unions and their members. Amazon, Starbucks, SpaceX and Trad…

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Breaking—NLRB issues complaint against Musk's SpaceX, saying it entered into severance agreements with employees that had illegal confidentiality & nondisparagement clauses & unlawful limits on joining claims against SpaceX—which is seeking to have the NLRB ruled unconstitutional
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A shoutout from Jimmy Kimmel to the real workers in Hollywood, the union people behind the scenes. Huge ovation #Oscars
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Some of the nation's most prominent corporations—Amazon, Starbucks, SpaceX and Trader Joe's—are pushing to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional Such a ruling would be a major setback for workers & could return labor relations to "the law of the jungle" theguardian.com/us-news/2024…

Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board

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“Gender-affirming care and abortion providers save lives—they deserve full and fair labor rights and employment protections.” @OnLaborBlog onlabor.org/when-jobs-become…

When Jobs Becomes Illegal: Workplace Challenges for Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care Providers ✦...

Ellie Samuels on the consequences of state restrictions on access to gender-affirming care for medical workers and employers across the country.

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You can read about the right to organize collective bargaining protections for tenants with landlords in SF by @Davidpopoola in @OnLaborBlog onlabor.org/tenants-right-to…

Tenants’ Right to Organize: The Regulation of Tenants’ Unions in San Francisco ✦ OnLabor

“It’s a union at home. . . . We’re all workers who can unionize at work. Now we can unionize at work and at home.” These words, from a tenant and organizer of a local San Francisco tenants’ union,...

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In @OnLaborBlog, @sandeepvaheesan and I detail that non-competes, which inhibit workers from moving freely, depress wages, and lock many in unfair work environments, are facing extinction in 2024 thanks to federal and state efforts. onlabor.org/the-death-of-the…

The Death of the Non-Compete Clause May Be Imminent ✦ OnLabor

Sandeep Vaheesan and Daniel Hanley on the coercive nature of non-compete clauses and recent efforts to outlaw such contracts.

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