Here’s One Union That Can’t Be Touched by ‘Right to Work’ Laws
Source: Arvind Dilawar, The Nation, November 6, 2017 Between thrilling customers with their repertoire of Broadway hits, servers at Ellen’s Stardust Diner have formed a “solidarity union” to fight for...
View ArticleWhat Unions Do for Regulation
Source: Alison D. Morantz, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 13, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: The question of how organized labor affects the content, enforcement, and...
View ArticleFacing Wisconsin-Style Attack, Iowans Stick to the Union
Source: Dave Kamper, Labor Notes, November 16, 2017 Never let a good crisis go to waste. Iowa’s Republican legislative majorities assumed that an aggressive anti-union law would persuade public...
View ArticleFriedrichs v. California Teachers Association
Source: Diana Liu, Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, Volume 38 Issue 2, 2017 During the 2016 term, the Supreme Court heard Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which presented...
View ArticleIs it Time for a New Free Speech Fight? Thoughts on Whether the First...
Source: Catherine Fisk, University of California, Berkeley – UC Irvine School of Law, Research Paper No. 2017-27, May 30, 2017 From the abstract: The First Amendment, at least in the Supreme Court,...
View ArticleReconciling Agency Fee Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Modern Public...
Source: Courtlyn G. Roser-Jones, University of Wisconsin, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1423, Last revised: September 14, 2017 From the abstract: Few institutions have done more to improve working...
View ArticleWant to stop sexual abuse in the workplace? Unionize.
Source: Jeff Spross, The Week, November 27, 2017 ….Harassment occurs at all levels of the economy precisely because it’s bound up with economic hierarchy. Women (and sometimes men) are targeted because...
View ArticleWhy We Shouldn’t Fall for the Members-Only Unionism Trap
Source: Chris Brooks, In These Times, December 22, 2017 One of corporate America’s next big goals might surprise you: passing legislation to prevent unions from having to represent workers who don’t...
View ArticleThis Florida Stealth Offensive Against Unions Could Preview GOP Onslaught in...
Source: Michael Arria, In These Times, December 22, 2017 Florida Republicans are pushing a bill designed to deal the state’s unions a death blow. House Bill 25, which was introduced by Longwood state...
View ArticleEverything Passes, Everything Changes: Unionization and Collective Bargaining...
Source: William A. Herbert, Jacob Apkarian, Perspectives on Work, 2017 From the abstract: This article begins with a brief history of unionization and collective bargaining in higher education. It then...
View ArticleCan Unions Stop the Far Right?
Source: Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, December 2017 If it weren’t for working-class voters, Germany’s recent election could have had a different outcome. …. Can the United States learn from Germany’s...
View ArticleEscalating Moral Obligation in the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011
Source: Matthew Kearney, Social Forces, Advance Access, December 28, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: This study uses insider ethnographic and interview data to examine one of the...
View ArticleHow to Jump-Start a Weak Union to Fight Open-Shop Attacks
Source: Ellen David Friedman, Labor Notes, January 2, 2018 Hostile forces are poised to encourage public sector workers to ditch their unions as soon as the Supreme Court rules on the Janus v. AFSCME...
View ArticleAccidental Revitalization? Looking at the Complex Realities of Union Renewal
Source: Jason Foster, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 42 no. 4, December 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article outlines a union renewal case study with unexpected circumstances. It...
View ArticleEducating for Change: How Labor Education Centers and AFL-CIO Bodies Can Grow...
Source: David Reynolds, Barbara Byrd, Jeff Grabelsky, Paul Iversen, Jason Kozlowski, Sarah Laslett, Katherine Sciacchitano, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 42 no. 4, December 2017 From the abstract: In...
View ArticleLabor Debates: Assessing the Fight for Fifteen Movement from Chicago
Source: Robert Bruno, Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 42 no. 4, December 2017 (subscription required) In this issue of Labor Studies Journal (LSJ), we introduce a new occasional section to readers, Labor...
View ArticleCould Employee Choice End Labor Unions’ Influence?
Source: Adam C. Abrahms, Employee Relations Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, Summer 2017 (subscription required) The author of this article discusses a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics annual report,...
View Article1,300 Men: Memphis Strike ‘68
Source: The Root and Striking Voices, 2018 ….The Root partnered with Striking Voices, a Memphis-based multimedia journalism project, created by journalist and author Emily Yellin, to produce 1,300 Men:...
View ArticleTop 10 Things Unions Can Do Right Now to Address Sexual Harassment in the...
Source: Ana Avendaño and Linda Seabrook, On Labor blog, November 10, 2017 …. The following are practices that unions could adopt right now to address sexual harassment in America’s workplaces: 1)...
View ArticleFreedom From the Boss
Source: Barry Eidlin, Michah Uetricht, Jacobin, January 17, 2018 At its best, the labor movement hasn’t just fought for better wages. It’s fought to bring democracy to workplaces marked by despotism....
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