#BlackWorkersMatter
Source: Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, Linda Burnham, Steven Pitts, Marc Bayard, Algernon Austin, Discount Foundation and the Neighborhood Funders Group, May 2015 From the summary: …. #BlackWorkersMatter...
View ArticleEven Conservative Millennials Support Unions
Source: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, New Republic, May 1, 2015 ….The Pew Research Center on Monday released a report detailing the American public’s outlook on labor unions. There were a few surprises....
View ArticleGuest Post: Will Governor Rauner’s New Bankruptcy Proposal Break Chicago’s...
Source: Michelle Wilde Anderson, OnLabor blog, May 1, 2015 Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has decided that allowing his state’s municipalities to declare bankruptcy is an important arrow in his quiver...
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The Union Card: A Ticket Into Middle Class Stability
Source: Hugh Mackenzie, Richard Shillington, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, May 2015 From the abstract: This report examines 30 years of unionization and income data to examine the impact of...
View ArticleOrganized Labor Should Spend the Rest of 2015 Training Workers How to Fight
Source: David Goodner, In These Times, Working In These Times blog, May 1, 2015 …..In the long run, labor would be better off scaling back its electoral work and instead double down on new and internal...
View ArticleAnd Still I Rise: Black Women Labor Leaders’ Voice, Power, Promise
Source: Institute for Policy Studies, 2015 From the introduction: ….The idea for this report emerged in October 2013 when the Black Labor Scholars Network (now the Institute for Policy Studies’ Black...
View ArticleCounty Right-to-Work Laws as the Latest Tactic to Undercut American Labor Unions
Source: Raymond Hogler, Scholars Strategy Network, Key Findings, April 2015 … What is unusual about local right-to-work laws is that they extend a legal rule far beyond its original understanding and...
View ArticleJoining UNISON: does the reform of a union organising strategy change how...
Source: Jeremy Waddington and Allan Ker, Industrial Relations Journal, Early View, April 23, 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: Drawing on survey evidence collected between 2001 and 2012,...
View ArticleLabor Protest Under the New First Amendment
Source: Catherine Fisk, Jessica Rutter, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 36 No. 2, 2015 From the abstract: Low-wage workers across the country have recently gripped the nation’s...
View ArticleCan the NLRB Order Bad Faith Bargainers To Pay A Union’s Negotiating Costs?
Source: Scott Hochberg, OnLabor blog, May 20, 2015 The NLRB’s power to remedy violations of §8 of the NLRA is usually quite limited: it can issue cease and desist letters, order the parties to bargain...
View ArticleAre Unions a Constitutional Anomaly?
Source: Cynthia L. Estlund, New York University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-01, January 12, 2015 From the abstract: The Supreme Court’s decision last term in Harris v. Quinn is its...
View ArticleNew Models of Worker Representation
Source: Robert Bruno, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 40 no. 1, March 2015 (subscription required) ….Yet despite repeated predictions of labor’s ultimate demise, unions have proven to be remarkably durable...
View ArticleCan Los Angeles Teachers Push Back the Corporate Education Reform Movement?
Source: Mario Vasquez, In These Times, Vol. 39 no. 5, May 2015 LA teachers seem to be taking a page from the Chicago Teachers Union—including potentially building towards a strike.
View ArticleCollective Labor Rights and Income Inequality
Source: Jasmine Kerrissey, American Sociological Review, Vol. 80 no. 3, June 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article examines the relationship between income inequality and...
View ArticleWalmart and the Art of Persuasion
Source: Steven Greenhouse, The Atlantic, June 8, 2015 How America’s largest private employer convinces its employees that they shouldn’t unionize. …. With 1.3 million U.S. employees—more than the...
View ArticleThe Impact of Home-Based Child Care Provider Unionization on the Cost, Type,...
Source: Todd Grindal, Martin R. West, John B. Willett and Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Early View, Article first published online: May 14, 2015 (subscription required)...
View ArticleVirtual Labor Organizing – Could Technology Help Reduce Income Inequality?
Source: Mark Zuckerman, Richard D. Kahlenberg, and Moshe Z. Marvit, Century Foundation, 2015 ….Due to a little-known, but far-reaching change made by the NLRB last year, virtual labor organizing by...
View ArticleWorker Centers as Labor Organizations? Labor Law’s Quid Without the Quo
Source: Cynthia Estlund, OnLabor blog, June 11, 2015 At last week’s NYU Annual Conference on Labor (an excellent conference, by the way), the most heated exchange during a panel on alternative worker...
View ArticleThe Drivers of Public Sector Pension Reform Across the U.S. States
Source: Michael Thom, The American Review of Public Administration, Published online before print June 3, 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: This study analyzes the diffusion of public...
View ArticleWorkplace Democracy and Democratic Worker Organizations: Notes on Worker...
Source: Catherine Fisk, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-64, June 8, 2015 From the abstract: Worker organizing outside the traditional union framework in the United States has lately...
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