Why Alt-Labor Groups Are Making Employers Mighty Nervous
Source: Lane Windham, American Prospect, January 30, 2014 A growing minimum wage movement indicates that despite low union membership statistics, labor’s future isn’t as dire as some in the business...
View ArticleGender Wage Gap for Union Members Is Half the Size of Non-Union Workers’ Wage...
Source: Joan Entmacher, Katherine Gallagher Robbins, National Women’s Law Center, blog, January 24, 2014 Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data on union membership for 2013. The data...
View ArticleThe Emerging Role of Worker Centers in Union Organizing – A Strategic Assessment
Source: Jarol B. Manheim, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, November 2013 From the press release: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Workforce Freedom Initiative (WFI) today released a study exposing financial and...
View ArticleUnion Advantage for Black Workers
Source: Janelle Jones and John Schmitt, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), February 2014 From the press release: For over 50 years, black workers in the United States have found union...
View ArticleTemporary Weapons: Employers’ Use of Temps against Organized Labor
Source: Erin Hatton, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 67 No. 1, January 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: Since the 1970s, U.S. employers have restructured their relationship...
View ArticleWork-Life Flexibility Policies: Do Unions Affect Employee Access and Use?
Source: Peter Berg, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Kaumudi Misra, Dale Belman, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 67 No. 1, January 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: The authors examine the...
View ArticleUnion Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of...
Source: Henry S. Farber, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), NBER Working Paper No. w19908, February 2014 From the abstract: It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions...
View ArticleMillennials on the Joys and Trials of Salting
Source: Jane Slaughter, In These Times, Working In These Times blog, February 27, 2014 Bosses hate a salt—a pro-union worker who’s taken a job with the intent to organize. A few unions are recruiting...
View ArticleThe Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and Its Description by...
Source: John Pencavel, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 67 No. 1, January 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: The size distribution of trade unions in the United States and...
View ArticleThe Mounting Guerilla War against the Reign of Walmart
Source: John Logan, New Labor Forum, Vol. 23 no. 1, Winter 2014 (subscription required) The year 2012-2013 was a big year for Walmart workers and their allies fighting for better labor standards and an...
View ArticleWhy Teachers Unions Make Such Useful Scapegoats
Source: Rebecca Kolins Givan, New Labor Forum, Vol. 23 no. 1, Winter 2014 (subscription required) In the last several election cycles, it has become de rigueur for right-wing candidates to express...
View ArticleALT-Labor, Secondary Boycotts, and Toward a Labor Organization Bargain
Source: Michael C. Duff, Catholic University Law Review, Summer 2014 (Forthcoming) From the abstract: Recently, workers led by non-union labor advocacy groups, popularly labelled “ALT-Labor,” have been...
View ArticleWhy Workers Still Need a Collective Voice in the Era of Norms and Mandates
Source: Cynthia L. Estlund, New York University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-79, December 3, 2013 From the abstract: The drastic decline of union representation in the U.S. has...
View ArticleExplaining Pay Disparities between Top Executives and Nonexecutive Employees:...
Source: Taekjin Shin, Social Forces, Advance Access, First published online: February 23, 2014 From the abstract: The widening pay gap between corporate executives and rank-and-file workers has...
View ArticleRe-conceptualizing member participation: informal activist careers in unions
Source: Kyoung-Hee Yu, Work Employment & Society, Vol. 28 no. 1, February 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: Extant theories of member participation in unions have sought mainly to...
View ArticleOrganizing immigrants: meaning generation in the community
Source: Kyoung-Hee Yu, Work, Employment & Society, Published online before print October 21, 2013 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article examines the role of community...
View ArticleThe Continuing Vitality of Unions
Source: New York University Annual Survey of American Law, 2014 The title of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law’s annual symposium on February 21 might well have ended with a question mark: “The...
View ArticleRegulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States
Source: Milla Sanes and John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 2014 From the abstract: While the unionization of most private-sector workers is governed by the National Labor...
View ArticleJob insecurity and job satisfaction in the United States: the case of public...
Source: Benjamin Artz, Ilker Kaya, Industrial Relations Journal, Early View, Article first published online: February 14, 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: We measure the association...
View ArticleUnionbusters 101
Source: Erin Johansson, Jobs With Justice, March 13, 2014 This primer on unionbusting answers frequently asked questions about the companies and firms who are set on opposing unions. Check out Unions...
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