Research Shows Unionized Workers Are Less Happy, but Why?
Source: Patrice Laroche, Harvard Business Review, August 30, 2017 Many employers are paying more and more attention to the well-being of their employees and to how they perceive their current jobs,...
View ArticleUnions Aren’t Obsolete, They’re Being Crushed by Right-Wing Politics
Source: Livia Gershon, Vice, September 11, 2017 ….Few economic or political elites preach much about the virtues of a union. …. This year in Davos, Switzerland, at an annual gathering of CEOs,...
View ArticleLabor Unions Are Stepping Up To Fight Deportations
Source: Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post, September 12, 2017 Organized labor is finding creative ways to protect immigrant members and families vulnerable in the Trump era. The post Labor Unions Are...
View ArticleHarvard Hopes Trump Will Help It Undermine Unions
Source: John Trumpbour and Chris Tilly, Labor Notes, September 14, 2017 ….Like other private universities, Harvard appears to be banking on Trump appointees to the Labor Board to help fight off...
View ArticleWithout Strong Unions, Middle-Class Families Bring Home a Smaller Share
Source: Alex Rowell and David Madland, Center for American Progress, September 14, 2017 New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that in 2016, the median U.S. household earned $59,039, a 3.2 percent...
View ArticleSurveying the Home Care Workforce: Their Challenges & The Positive Impact of...
Source: Anastasia Christman, Caitlin Connolly, National Employment Law Project (NELP), Data Brief, September 22, 2017 From the summary: In the closing months of 2016, we asked home care workers (i.e.,...
View ArticleHow 1,000 Nurses in Northern Michigan Went Union
Source: James Walker, Labor Notes, September 20, 2017 Nurses in rural northern Michigan made history August 9-10 when we won labor’s biggest organizing victory since “right to work” took effect in the...
View ArticleWelfare Benefits and Unemployment in Affluent Democracies: The Moderating...
Source: Thomas Biegert, American Sociological Review, First Published August 29, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: The effect of generous welfare benefits on unemployment is highly...
View ArticleThe United Auto Workers’ Attempts to Unionize Volkswagen Chattanooga
Source: Stephen J. Silvia, ILR Review, Online First, August 3, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: The author examines attempts by the United Auto Workers (UAW) to unionize the Volkswagen...
View ArticlePartners in protest: parents, unions and anti-academy campaigns
Source: Suzanne Muna, Industrial Relations Journal, Early View, September 25, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: An analytical framework has been developed in order to enhance our ability...
View ArticleEnhancing transnational labour solidarity: the unfulfilled promise of the...
Source: Torsten Geelan and Andy Hodder, Industrial Relations Journal, Early View, September 14, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article examines the activities of Union Solidarity...
View ArticleUnion education is a key to member engagement
Source: CUPE, September 6, 2017 Tips for mobilizing members with union education • Get union orientation or training language in your collective agreement. Negotiate provisions that allow members,...
View ArticleThe 2017 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and...
Source: Bruce F. Freed, Center for Political Accountability (CPA), September 26, 2017 The CPA-Zicklin Index benchmarks the political disclosure and accountability policies and practices of leading U.S....
View ArticleCan Labor Still Use the Wagner Act?
Source: Joseph A. McCartin, Dissent, Fall 2017 …. Eighty years after the Wagner Act’s validation, the triumph of collective bargaining in mass production industries seems as ancient as Exodus, and...
View ArticleBring the Union Meeting to the Members
Source: Joe Fahey, Labor Notes, September 28, 2017 How many members attend your union meetings? And how do you feel about that? Whether it’s just a handful or a hundred, no activist is ever satisfied....
View ArticleAgency Fees and the First Amendment
Source: Benjamin I. Sachs, Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, Date Written: September 22, 2017 From the abstract: Agency fees are mandatory payments that certain employees are required to make to labor...
View ArticleHow Unions Are Already Gearing Up for a Supreme Court Loss
Source: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene, Governing, October 5, 2017 Public-sector unions are already preparing for a potential exodus of members and a loss of revenue. Can they survive without...
View ArticleHow So-Called “Right to Work” Laws Aim to Silence Working People
Source: Amy Traub, Dēmos, 2017 From the introduction: In America, working people have the freedom to band together with their co-workers to negotiate for a fair return on our work. We have the freedom...
View ArticlePublic sector unions, democracy, and citizenship at work
Source: Patrice M. Mareschal, Labor History, Volume 59, 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: Since the 1970s, governments around the world have been engaged in a conflict over the...
View ArticleReconstructing resistance and renewal in public service unionism in the...
Source: Whyeda Gill-McLure & Christer Thörnqvist, Labor History, Volume 59, 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: This special issue uses the occasion of the centenary of the Whitley...
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