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March 7, 2016
News & Commentary

Lake Concetta Coreth

Unions to the rescue in Flint, Michigan. A year ago Flint residents discovered that their drinking water supply had been contaminated by lead. Now, CNN reports that the Union Labor Life Insurance Company and American Federation of Teachers are investing $25 million in union pension funds to save the small city. The city’s “Fast-Start” program […]

March 6, 2016
News & Commentary

Abbey Q. Keister

The New York Times questions whether the labor movement will continue to have the kind of political impact on the election as it has in the past. With union membership down to just 11% of American workers (compared to 31% in 1960), the typically left-leaning movement struggles more and more to compete with Republican-leaning super […]

March 4, 2016
News & Commentary

Abbey Q. Keister

New Jersey commuters are worried about the possibility of an impending strike on the part of rail workers, according to the New York Times. After months of negotiations over wages and benefits, the workers will meet with federal officials again today in hopes of securing a deal. If unsuccessful, workers could begin striking as early […]

March 3, 2016
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Juhyung Harold Lee

Want to make sure that the employer who just hired you as a day laborer won’t cheat you out of your pay? There’s an app for that. The New York Times reports that day laborers and worker advocacy organizations have collaborated to create Jornalero, a smartphone app that allows day laborers to “rate employers . […]

March 2, 2016
News & Commentary

Sophie Rubinett Elsner

New Jersey unions started the week with bad news: the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on whether the state must pay the full share of its annual public pension contribution, reports CNBC. This leaves in place Governor Chris Christie’s plan, in which the state makes only partial contributions to the fund. New […]

March 1, 2016
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

Labor unions have gone digital…media, that is. The New York Times reports that “Gawker Media and the union that represents its employees announced on Monday that they had reached an agreement on a labor contract, the first designed and negotiated specifically for a digital media company.” Gawker workers are represented by the Writers Guild of […]

February 29, 2016
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Emily Miller

Judge William Foust of Dane County, Wisconsin heard arguments on Thursday for a lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, the Milwaukee International Association of Machinists, and the Menasha United Steelworkers requesting an injunction from the state’s almost year-old right-to-work law, reports the Wisconsin State Journal. The lawsuit claims the law is an unconstitutional government taking […]

February 28, 2016
News & Commentary

Y. Gloria Park

Governor Scott Walker’s push to cut collective bargaining rights for public sector workers not only has slashed union membership numbers, but also has diminished Wisconsin unions’ political role. This decrease in unions’ political influence, in turn, will disproportionately hurt Democrats, the traditional “beneficiaries of money and ground-level help from the unions,” according to the New […]

February 26, 2016
News & Commentary

Y. Gloria Park

Delays in the Labor Department’s processing of H-2B applications are “reigniting a clash over the program’s merits and whether it harms domestic workers,” reported the Wall Street Journal. Some in the business community are accusing the Labor Department of intentionally “slow-walking the process to appease unions and other critics” of the H-2B visa program, which […]

February 25, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit upheld a 2011 Labor Department rule prohibiting businesses from collecting tips given to waiters, casino dealers, or other service employees, to share with support staff, such as dishwashers, according to Politico and ABC News. This rule applies even if tipped employees are receiving minimum wage. Seven states have minimum wage statutes that […]

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