What Now for Unions?
Source: Harold Meyerson, American Prospect, March 26, 2018 Republicans on and off the bench are moving to kill unions. But millennials—the most pro-union generation since the 1930s—may yet find a way...
View ArticleSexual Harassment and Solidarity
Source: Marion G. Crain, Kenneth Matheny, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-03-04, March 26, 2018 From the abstract: In the waning months of 2017, Americans endured...
View ArticleThe Power of Place
Source: Michael M Oswalt, The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law: Reviving American Labor for a 21st Century Economy (Richard Bales & Charlotte Garden, eds.) (CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS, Forthcoming)....
View ArticleUnion Co-Ops and the Revival of Labor Law
Source: Ariana R. Levinson, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, Forthcoming, 2018, Date Written: March 16, 2018 From the abstract: Union worker-owned cooperatives (union co-ops) offer a means to...
View ArticleWhose Money Is It Anyway: Have We Been Wrong About Agency Fees All Along?
Source: Aaron Tang, Harvard Law Review Forum, March 9, 2018 From the abstract: In Agency Fees and the First Amendment, Professor Benjamin Sachs offers a pair of novel arguments for why the Court should...
View ArticlePublic Unions Under First Amendment Fire
Source: Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Research Paper No. 2018-W-01, February 28, 2018 From the abstract: Unions today are under First Amendment fire, with the...
View ArticleThe Effect of Collective Bargaining Rights on Law Enforcement: Evidence from...
Source: Dhammika Dharmapala, Richard H. McAdams, John Rappaport, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 831, Last revised: January 27, 2018 From the...
View ArticleThe Only Way to Survive Janus
Source: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes, March 30, 2018 The snows were still flying, but for unionists, spring came early this year. West Virginia’s teacher uprising burst onto the scene like...
View ArticleUnderstanding Decisions in State Pension Systems: A System Framework
Source: Gang Chen, The American Review of Public Administration, Vol. 48 no. 3, April 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: State governments establish pension systems to provide retirement...
View ArticleTeachers Rise Up For Raises
Source: 1A, April 3, 2018 (audio) The success of the teachers’ strike in West Virginia, which resulted in a 5 percent pay increase, has inspired a movement among educators across the nation. Teachers...
View ArticleOrganizing On-Demand: Representation, Voice, and Collective Bargaining in the...
Source: Hannah Johnston, Chris Land-Kazlauskas, International Labour Organization, Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 94, 2018 …. We begin with an overview of gig and platform work and the...
View ArticleWhy workers go on strike
Source: M. Simms, The Conversation, March 23, 2018 The employment relationship – between employer and employee – is full of tensions, bargains and compromises. Even the most motivated employee has days...
View ArticleLabor Renaissance in the Heartland
Source: Lois Weiner, Jacobin, April 6, 2018 Red state teachers are reviving the labor movement’s core values: respect for democracy and the dignity of work. Related: The Teachers’ Strikes Have Exposed...
View ArticleWage Boards for American Workers: Industry-Level Collective Bargaining for...
Source: David Madland, Center for American Progress, April 9, 2018 …. The United States needs a different kind of collective bargaining that responds to the changes in the economy over recent decades....
View ArticleConnecting Public Transit to Great Manufacturing Jobs
Source: Steven Greenhouse, The American Prospect, Spring 2018 Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers....
View ArticleCoding and Coercion
Source: Ben Tarnoff, Jacobin, April 11, 2018 An interview with Björn Westergard Unions have been trying to organize software engineers for decades, with little success. Here’s a look at the organizing...
View ArticleRed Oklahoma
Source: Eric Blanc, Jacobin, April 13, 2018 A century ago, Oklahoma had the strongest socialist movement in the US. Today, there are signs it’s being reborn. The post Red Oklahoma appeared first on...
View ArticleThe Special Status of Union Stewards
Source: Robert M. Schwartz, Labor Notes, April 13, 2018 Standing up to bosses is essential to being a steward. On the shop floor and in grievance meetings, you must defend the actions of members and...
View ArticleIndiana Teachers ‘Go Green’ To Track Member Sign-Up
Source: Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes, April 13, 2018 What will happen to public sector unions after the Supreme Court rules on the Janus v. AFSCME case this spring? Indiana teachers are already there....
View ArticleThe Strike: Chemicals, Cancer, and the Fight for Health Care
Source: Ian Frisch, Longreads, April 2018 Workers at Momentive Performance Materials had given their lives to the chemical plant. The strike was supposed to save what little they had left. The post The...
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