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September 9, 2013
News & Commentary

Max Utzschneider

The quadrennial AFL-CIO convention kicked off in Los Angeles on Sunday, the L.A. Times reports. The convention agenda covers a variety of issues and resolutions including immigration reform, voting rights, racial justice, and the Affordable Care Act. Senator Elizabeth Warren addressed the convention Sunday afternoon, assuring unions she’ll be one of their strongest allies in […]

September 8, 2013
News & Commentary

Nikolas Bowie

The president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, plans to ask the labor federation’s national convention today to allow nonlabor advocacy groups and millions of nonunion workers to join, the New York Times reports. With the goal of reversing organized labor’s declining numbers, Trumka believes that unions can build a broad coalition to advance a worker-friendly […]

September 6, 2013
News & Commentary

Sam Heppell

In ongoing direct action by low-wage workers, the Washington Post describes new protests against Wal-Mart in the metro-D.C. area, calling on the nation’s largest retailer to pay an annual wage of $25,000 for full-time employees. The protesters are also pressuring D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray to sign the Large Retailer Accountability Act, which would require D.C. Wal-Mart […]

September 5, 2013
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

NBC News reports that Unions are dramatically increasing donations to super PACs ahead of the 2014 election cycle. So far in 2013, “unions contributed $10 million to the political committees” as compared to the $1.7 million Unions contributed in 2011, “the last off-election year.” In other election news, the Wall Street Journal reports that all […]

September 4, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

The Wall Street Journal has provided background on an employment law case on the Supreme Court’s docket in the coming term: Sandifer v. US Steel Corp. Current federal law requires employers to pay workers for performing both a job’s “principal activity” and “closely related activities which are indispensible to its performance.” But federal law does […]

September 3, 2013
News & Commentary

Jordan M. Grossman

In international news, the Wall Street Journal reports that tensions boiled in Mexico after the country’s lower house of Congress passed a bill calling for teacher evaluations and the possible firing of ones deemed inferior – a priority of new President Enrique Peña Nieto – which has generated major protests in Mexico City by a powerful faction of the […]

September 2, 2013
News & Commentary

Alison Deich

Happy Labor Day! To celebrate the holiday, the Washington Post interviewed four workers from the D.C. area about “what they do and why they do it.” The Post also published excerpts from an interview with Labor Secretary Thomas Perez. The interview touches upon Secretary Perez’s plans for the Department of Labor, the 50th anniversary of […]

September 1, 2013
News & Commentary

Nikolas Bowie

Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone. In case you’re curious about the origin of the federal holiday, the Washington Post has posted a minute-long explanation. The National Labor Relations Board is celebrating Labor Day 2013 as the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Wall Street Journal reports that the NLRB unveiled a mobile-phone app […]

August 30, 2013
News & Commentary

Sam Heppell

In front of 1000 stores across 6o cities, fast food workers and supporters demonstrated yesterday for higher wages, in what the L.A. Times describes as perhaps the “biggest effort yet” for low-wage workers hit hard by the recession to demonstrate the hardship posed by working for minimum wage. While the protesters took to the streets, […]

August 29, 2013
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

The recession continues to hurt the performing arts world. Last year the Minnesota Orchestra cancelled its season due to a lockout, after the players refused to accept a 32% paycut. The New York Times reports that this year, the players and management have until September 15th to reach an agreement, otherwise they will have to cancel their Carnegie […]

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