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AFL-CIO Convention

Sep 9, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

Josh Eidelson at The Nation has ongoing and thorough coverage of the AFL-CIO’s convention, taking place now in Los Angeles. Here’s one argument as to why you should care.

Symposium – The Future of Organized Labor: Labor Law in the 21st Century.

Sep 9, 2013 Brad King

The Minnesota Law Review is hosting its annual symposium on October 25, 2013, and this year’s topic is “The Future of Organized Labor: Labor Law in the 21st Century.” The symposium will feature a number of nationally recognized experts in the field of labor law participating as keynote speakers, panelists, and moderators. Craig Becker, general […]

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina Retires

Sep 4, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

SEIU announced today that Eliseo Medina, the union’s current Secretary-Treasurer, is retiring. According to the press release, Medina will now work full-time on immigration reform.

Is There A Public-Sector/Private-Sector Pay Gap?

Sep 4, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

A major theme in the debate over public-sector unions has been the idea that public-sector workers get paid more than their counterparts in the private sector. Joe Slater has an important new paper that sheds helpful light on this question. Slater reviews the findings of a number of studies on the question of whether public-sector […]

Are Fast Food Strikes Quickening Robot Takeover?

Sep 4, 2013 Jack Goldsmith

The fast food strikes have invited a spate of stories on whether the push for higher wages will quicken the robot takeover of these jobs. Last week the restaurant lobby Employment Policies Institute published this ominous ad in the WSJ: The ad invited pushback. Eleazar David Menendez at the Huffington Post and Dan Seitz of Uproxx maintain that […]

Unbundling the Labor Union

Sep 1, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

Here is my Labor Day op-ed, from the New York Times. A fuller, law-review treatment of the subject will be available in the Yale Law Journal in October. The abstract to that piece is as follows: Public policy in the United States is disproportionately responsive to the wealthy and the traditional response to this problem, campaign […]

Worker Centers and the "Labor Organization" Question

Sep 1, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

Fifteen years ago, almost no one in the country knew what a “worker center” was. But in the last several weeks, worker centers have been the focus of a front page story in the Wall Street Journal and an excellent, extensive piece by Steve Greenhouse in the New York Times. Then, the day after the […]

Longshore Union Leaves the AFL-CIO

Sep 1, 2013 Benjamin Sachs

The longshore union (ILWU) has left the AFL-CIO. Their letter, worth a read, is here.

The L.A. Ports Strike

Sep 1, 2013 scottlcummings

The Los Angeles Times reported that on Monday, August 26, up to 30 drivers went on strike against local trucking firm Green Fleet Systems, which services the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—combined the largest port complex in the United States and one of the largest in the world. The strike, timed to coincide […]

Thompson on Why Fast-Food Worker Strikes Are Doomed

Sep 1, 2013 Jack Goldsmith

Derek Thomson at the The Atlantic maintains that the fast-food work strikes won’t accomplish much. His argument in a nutshell: The strikes would have a much better shot at inspiring a change in franchise- and corporate-level policy if fast-food chains perceived one of two threats: (a) a threat to the steady supply of food-service workers who […]

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