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Union Recruitment of Minority and Women Workers

Sep 29, 2014 Julina Guo

As the country recovers from the Great Recession, an increasing number of unions have turned their attention to those left behind by the recovery. In particular, many unions are now developing programs to attract and train minority and women workers. These programs provide “students” with skills and a job and employers with trained employees. While […]

September 19, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

Customer service agents for the now merged American Airlines-US Airways have voted strongly in favor of unionization. According to the National Mediation Board, about 86% of the 14,500 agents voted for representation by the CWA-IBT Association, a joint association of the Communications Workers of America and the Teamsters. Although agents at US Airways were unionized in […]

September 12, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The Boston Globe reports that the hospitality workers’ union Unite Here Local 26 has started a campaign to reach more African American workers. The union hopes to increase diversity of hotel employees, and the act is “part of a broader movement among local unions to add more people of color to their ranks” to reduce economic […]

August 29, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The New York Times reports that a group of former FedEx drivers in California and Oregon have been cleared by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to proceed with employment law claims. This comes after the court declared the workers to have been employees, not independent contractors. The court reasoned that the drivers […]

August 15, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The New York Times reports that the coffee giant Starbucks has announced a revision in its work scheduling policy to better accommodate employees. The move comes after the newspaper published an article highlighting the challenges of working on an erratic schedule. In an email to 130,000 Starbucks employees in the U.S., the group president Cliff Burrows […]

August 1, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The Wall Street Journal reports that thousands of unionized coal miners, electrical workers, and others in Pittsburgh protested against the federal proposal to lower carbon emissions from power plants. The unions, including the United Mine Workers of America, argue that the rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would raise electricity prices and cause over 65,000 […]

July 18, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The LA Times Editorial Board reports that LA city employee unions will not get their demanded raises for the foreseeable future. The city has been trying to eliminate an ongoing deficit by 2018 even as city employees had been furloughed and denied raises during the recession. Last week, police officers rejected a one-year contract that […]

July 3, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

According to The Washington Post, more Americans are in part-time jobs today than before the recession. The U.S. government defines “part-time work” as jobs that average less than 35 hours per week. Although the economy made gains in the job market for the fifth month in a row, economists are now worried that the 26 […]

June 20, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

The New York Times reports that American-born Latinos now make up the majority of the Latino workforce in the country. While immigration rates have declined due to the economic recession, births among Mexicans in the U.S. have increased and contributed to the growing population of American-born Latinos. Since the end of the recession, American-born Latinos […]

June 10, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

According to The Wall Street Journal, the chief executives of some of the nation’s largest company sent a letter to Congress to push for immigration reform. Some of the signatories include the top leaders of Coca-Cola Co., Exelon Corp., Tyson Foods Inc., and McDonald’s Corp. The corporate executives urged for a “practical solution” to undocumented individuals already here, saying […]

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