Martin Luther King, Teachers’ Unions and Social Justice
Source: Yohuru Williams, Huffington Post blog, January 12, 2106 As the nation prepares to mark what would have been the 87th birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, we should remember Dr. King...
View ArticleFighting for a Better Life: How Working People Across America are Organizing...
Source: AFL-CIO, January 2016 From the blog post: Marking nearly one year since the first ever Raising Wages Summit, the AFL-CIO today released a new report detailing the successes, struggles and path...
View ArticlePublic Employee Unions and Pensions
Source: Posted on January 22, 2016 by Catherine Fisk and Brian Olney, OnLabor blog, January 22, 2016 Advocates of weakening public sector unions, both some who have filed briefs in the Friedrichs case...
View ArticleUnion Members – 2015
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, News Release, USDL-16-0158, January 28, 2016 The union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions—was 11.1 percent in 2015,...
View ArticleUnion Revitalization: How Women and Men Officers See the Relationship Between...
Source: Steven Mellor, Lisa M. Kath, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Volume 28 Issue 1, March 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: Larger memberships resulting from union...
View ArticleDoes Labor Deserve Its Own Downfall?
Source: Peter Schrag, David Rolf, Jane McAlevey and Michelle Chen, The Nation, February 4, 2015 The Supreme Court’s Friedrichs case could be disastrous for unions—how did we get here and what can labor...
View ArticleHow Michigan Became a Right to Work State: The Role of Money and Politics
Source: Michelle Kaminski, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 40 no. 4, December 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: The passage of Right to Work (RTW) legislation in Michigan was a surprise to...
View ArticleThe Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law: Implications for Illinois
Source: Robert Bruno, Roland Zullo, Frank Manzo IV, Alison Dickson, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 40 no. 4, December 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: While considerable efforts have been...
View ArticlePromises Unfulfilled: Right-to-Work’s Early Economic Track Record in Indiana
Source: Frank Manzo IV, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 40 no. 4, December 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article examines the early economic track record of Indiana’s “right-to-work”...
View ArticleRight-to-Work Laws, the Southernization of U.S. Labor Relations and the U.S....
Source: Victor G. Devinatz, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 40 no. 4, December 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article provides a framework for explaining why the right-to-work (RTW)...
View ArticleCan Renewal Emerge from Destruction? Crisis and Opportunity in Wisconsin
Source: Don Taylor, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 40 no. 4, December 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article explores public sector labor relations in Wisconsin after the 2011...
View ArticleLabor Movement Needs to Organize Against Friedrichs vs. California Teachers...
Source: Shamus Cooke, Speakout, February 10, 2016 …..Every historic victory of organized labor was won with “no justice, no peace” at its foundation, and every other organized group of oppressed people...
View ArticleWhat Will Become of Public-Sector Unions Now?
Source: Charlotte Garden, The Atlantic, February 16, 2016 With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, organized labor may be spared—for a little while…. Related: Friedrichs Is Dead; Labor’s...
View ArticleThis is the script Uber is using to make anti-union phone calls to drivers in...
Source: Alison Griswold, Quartz, February 22, 2016 Over the weekend, we reported on Uber’s stealthy new effort to dissuade drivers in Seattle from unionizing: It’s directing its US customer service...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Vacancy and Labor
Source: Benjamin Sachs, OnLabor blog, February 23, 2016 With the Court and Congress back in session for the first time since Justice Scalia’s death, attention has turned to President Obama’s choice of...
View ArticleGovernment, utilities, and transportation and warehousing had highest...
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, February 29, 2016 The union membership rate—the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions—was 11.1...
View ArticleUnions and Income Inequality: A Panel Cointegration and Causality Analysis...
Source: Dierk Herzer, Economic Development Quarterly, Published online before print March 3, 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: In this research note it is shown that by applying...
View ArticleHow to transform workers’ campaign rage into better jobs and wages
Source: Thomas Kochan, The Conversation, March 24, 2016 The presidential campaigns deserve some credit for finally voicing some of the deep frustrations and anger felt by American workers who have...
View ArticleThe Labor Prospect: How Garland Would (and Would Not) Be a Pro-Labor Justice
Source: Justin Miller, American Prospect, March 22, 2016 Predicting how Garland would rule on labor cases, Trump’s working class appeal, and measuring the “gig economy.” Related: Merrick Garland’s...
View ArticleOpinion analysis: Result but no guidance on public unions’ fees
Source: Lyle Denniston, SCOTUSblog, March 29, 2016 The most important labor union controversy to reach the Supreme Court in years sputtered to an end on Tuesday, with a four-to-four split, no...
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