How Janus Could Spill into the Private Sector Without Radically Redefining...
Source: Boyd Garriott, On Labor blog, April 19, 2018 This term, the Supreme Court will decide Janus, where it will determine the future of agency shop agreements in public sector unions. Despite being...
View ArticleThe Teacher Strikes Show That Workers Are Really, Finally, Fed Up
Source: Eillie Anzilotti, Fast Company, April 19, 2018 By walking out of their classrooms, U.S. teachers are part of a global uprising against low wages for the benefit of increasing corporate profits....
View ArticleGeorgia Bus Drivers Joined the School Uprising and Paid a Price
Source: Rachel M. Cohen, The Intercept, April 22, 2018 The red-state school uprising is spreading to educators around the country, with teachers in Colorado and Arizona now planning walkouts to demand...
View ArticleWhy Young People Are Joining Unions Again
Source: Hannah Finnie, Talk Poverty blog, April 19, 2018 …. Young people are at a tipping point. They are frustrated by a system whose cracks were etched into place by preceding generations, but have...
View ArticleTeacher Strikes Are Spreading Across America With No End in Sight
Source: Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg, April 2, 2018 One month after a teachers’ “wildcat” strike ended with a deal to hike pay for all West Virgina state employees, teacher strikes are spreading fast...
View ArticleState of the Unions Week
Source: Pacific Standard, April 2018 …. This week Pacific Standard will be taking a look at the current and future states of American labor. We’ll explore everything from the promise and limitations of...
View ArticleArizona Prepares to Strike
Source: Eric Blanc, Jacobin, April 26, 2018 Educators in Arizona are walking out today to demand better pay and full school funding. It will likely be the largest and most dramatic education strike...
View ArticleFive Ways Bosses Fight Labor
Source: Rosemary Feurer, Chad Pearson, Jacobin, May 1, 2018 Why are unions so weak in the US? Because for well over a century, employers have used every tactic in the book to crush them. The post Five...
View ArticleHow to Break an NDA, See If Your Pay Is Fair, Confront a Colleague, and More
Source: Mary Pilon, Bloomberg, May 1, 2018 Practical advice on some of the most uncomfortable—and important—things you could do for your career. Related: Employee Rights Source: NOLO, 2018 Can you be...
View ArticleI Work with Mark Janus. Here’s How He Benefits from a Strong Union.
Source: Donnie Killen, Labor Notes, May 11, 2018 Like everyone else in the labor movement, I’m nervously awaiting the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, which would weaken public...
View ArticleDebate: How Should Unions Deal With Free Riders?
Source: Labor Notes, May 4, 2018 …. In a right-to-work setting, workers have the option to be free riders, receiving the benefits of unionization without paying membership dues or fees. Yet the duty of...
View ArticleSteward’s Corner: Legal Rights in a Contract Campaign
Source: Robert M. Schwartz, Labor Notes, May 16, 2018 In today’s dysfunctional economic climate, straightforward bargaining frequently comes up empty. Employers come to the table with lengthy lists of...
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Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data
Source: Henry S. Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko, Suresh Naidu, NBER Working Paper No. 24587, May 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: It is well-documented that, since at least the...
View ArticleWhy Do Workers Strike?
Source: Martin Glaberman, Jacobin, May 30, 2018 Think conservative workers won’t strike? Think again. History shows it’s not workers’ ideas that count, it’s the conditions they face on the job. …....
View ArticleMoral Economies or Hidden Talents? A Longitudinal Analysis of Union Decline...
Source: Tom VanHeuvelen, Social Forces, Advance Access, Published: May 30, 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: The decline of labor unions in the United States has been central to the rise...
View ArticleBefore It All Melts Away
Source: Chris Brooks, Labor Notes, May 30, 2018 Will this spring’s wave of teacher strikes lead to stronger unions? Not if their unions return to business as usual. The motor force behind the strikes...
View ArticleA profile of union workers in state and local government
Source: Julia Wolfe and John Schmitt, Economic Policy Institute, June 7, 2018 Key facts about the sector for followers of Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 The forthcoming Supreme Court decision in Janus v....
View ArticleCould Originalism Save Public Sector Unions?
Source: Maddy Joseph, On Labor blog, June 7, 2018 Justice Gorsuch’s silence during the Janus oral argument generated considerable buzz. Wishful (yet tentative) commentators hoped the silence was a sign...
View ArticleAfter Janus: A new era of teachers union activism
Source: Bradley D. Marianno and Katharine Strunk, Education Next, Vol. 18 no. 4, Fall 2018 …. Speculation about what a Janus ruling in favor of the plaintiffs will mean for teachers unions has been...
View ArticleSupreme Court decision in Janus threatens the quality of public-sector jobs...
Source: Celine McNicholas and Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute, June 13, 2018 In the last decade, an increasingly energized campaign against workers’ rights has been waged across all levels...
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