The new American way—how changes in labour law are increasing inequality
Source: Mark Stelzner, Industrial Relations Journal, Early View, First published: 27 June 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: How have changes in labour law affected income inequality in...
View ArticleHow We’re Surviving Right to Work: Letter Carriers Keep Numbers up with Shop...
Source: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes, June 28, 2017 Postal unions, like all federal employee unions, are open shop. That means workers can get the benefits of union representation while opting out...
View ArticleUnions, Workers, and Wages at the Peak of the American Labor Movement
Source: Brantly Callaway, William J. Collins, National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper No. 23516, June 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: We study a novel dataset compiled...
View ArticleAnti-Democratic Attacks on Unions Hurt Working Americans
Source: David Madland, Alex Rowell, and Gordon Lafer, Center for American Progress, June 22, 2017 From the summary: It is highly likely that unions will soon be under attack at the federal level. The...
View ArticleOrganizing in Red America
Source: Dissent Magazine, Summer 2017 Articles include: Left in the Middle Michael Kazin ….The good news is that a left does exist in Red America—and, amid the failures of the Trump administration,...
View ArticleLabor’s Bill of Rights
Source: Shaun Richman, The Century Foundation, July 18, 2017 ….What You Should Know • Less than 10 percent of Americans currently hold union membership (compared to over one-third of the workforce in...
View ArticleThe backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
Source: Brian Dolber, The Conversation, July 30, 2017 An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor recently pulled off an...
View ArticleSpecial Issue: Part I of II on “U.S. Labor and Social Justice”
Source: Class, Race and Corporate Power, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2017 This is a special issue of “Class, Race and Corporate Power”, part of a two-part series edited by Kim Scipes. Articles include:...
View ArticleTrade associations and labor organizations as intermediaries for...
Source: Andrea H. Okun, Janice P. Watkins and Paul A. Schulte, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 60 Issue 9, September 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: Background: There has...
View ArticleLabor Organizing in Right-to-Work States Is Numbers Game
Source: Chris Opfer and Jasmine Ye Han, Daily Labor Report, August 15, 2017 A total of 28 states have passed right-to-work laws, which ban unions from charging representation and administrative fees to...
View ArticleThe Conservative Case for Unions
Source: Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, July/August 2017 How a new kind of labor organization could address the grievances underlying populist anger. …. …. Even before getting my small taste of what...
View ArticleNot Just Signing Cards
Source: Joe Richard, Jacobin, August 18, 2017 In the wake of the UAW’s loss at Nissan, it’s clear that the dominant strategies for winning a union aren’t working. …. …. The labor movement should see...
View ArticleUAW’s loss at Nissan auto plant masks genuine progress for organized labor
Source: Harley Shaiken, The Conversation, August 22, 2017 ….Behind this loss there’s a glimmer of hope for labor. Decades of research on labor and globalization, particularly in manufacturing and the...
View ArticleThe Cure Worse than the Disease: Expelling Freeloaders in an Open-Shop State
Source: Chris Brooks, New Labor Forum, August 24, 2017 …..Right-to-work laws create two interlocking problems for labor unions. First, unions are legally required to represent all workers in a...
View ArticleHow today’s unions help working people: Giving workers the power to improve...
Source: Josh Bivens, Lora Engdahl, Elise Gould, Teresa Kroeger, Celine McNicholas, Lawrence Mishel, Zane Mokhiber, Heidi Shierholz, Marni von Wilpert, Ben Zipperer, and Valerie Wilson, Econiomic Policy...
View ArticleThe Contested Origins and Future of ‘Right to Work’ Laws
Source: Moshe Z. Marvit, International Union Rights, Vol. 24 No. 2, 2017 (subscription required) Everything about so-called ‘right to work’ is contested. Its history, purpose, promoters, effects, even...
View ArticleDeadly Picket-Lines in US Labour History
Source: Paul F. Lipold and Larry W. Isaac, International Union Rights, Vol. 24 No. 2, 2017 (subscription required) Dead men tell no tales; that is, until the living give them voice. From 1870 to 1970,...
View ArticleUnionized College Faculty Are Winning Themselves a Lot of Money
Source: Hamilton Nolan, Splinter, August 25, 2017 Unions are not just a feel-good sort of thing to do. New research about higher ed unions shows just how much workers have actually gained from...
View ArticleLabor Day 2017: Sept. 4
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Facts for Features, August 9, 2017 The first observance of Labor Day was likely on Sept. 5, 1882, when some 10,000 workers assembled in New York City for a parade. The...
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Being Anti-Fascist: Another Reason Why We Need a Labor Movement
Source: Sharon Block, On Labor blog, August 30, 2017 ….The question that many of us have been asking since Election Day — “how did we get here” — has taken on greater urgency in the wake of...
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