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March 3, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

A third Amazon warehouse received approval from the NLRB to conduct union elections on Wednesday. The Verge reported that LDJ5, a Staten Island warehouse, joined JFK8 and the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, in the ongoing efforts to unionize Amazon workers. Labor journalist Lauren K. Gurley tweeted a screenshot of a text that Amazon sent its LDJ5 […]

Childcare Organizing—Meeting Unique Challenges with Innovative Strategy

Oct 20, 2021 Alex Blutman

Labor activism and organizing has flourished recently, as the pandemic exacerbated fractures in various industries that jumpstarted organizing. The shockwaves were also felt in childcare, where high costs, low wages, and staffing problems worsened, yet the associated organizing surge was more difficult to spot. What does successful organizing look like in childcare now? Our flawed […]

September 20, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

The weekend brought a number of developments in the evolving Senate negotiations over President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget package. On Sunday evening, the Senate Parliamentarian opined that a measure creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants did not have a significant enough impact on the federal budget to merit inclusion in a […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

April 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

It really, truly is infrastructure week this time. Yesterday, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s $2.5 trillion economic revitalization package, proposing massive new federal investments in transportation infrastructure, broadband, manufacturing, affordable housing, and care services, among other measures. The package, dubbed the “American Jobs Plan,” seeks expressly to create “union” jobs and stresses the importance […]

August 19, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Yesterday marked one hundred years since the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment. Chabeli Carrazana writes on the key role the labor movement played in the fight for women’s suffrage. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was a pivotal moment galvanizing working women in the fight for voting rights. Carrazana draws parallels to modern labor struggles driving […]

August 17, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

A Florida judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit by Florida teachers challenging the state’s plan to reopen schools amid the pandemic. The suit, filed by the state’s largest teachers’ union, challenges an executive order issued early July by Florida’s education commissioner. The order requires all public and charter schools to open this month. While parents […]

June 25, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Since the pandemic began, declines in workforce participation have proven particularly stark among women. Experts attribute this phenomenon in part to women’s disproportionate representation in service-sector businesses, which have been especially affected by the pandemic. Turmoil in the child care industry has also played a major role; around 60% of U.S. child care centers closed […]

October 3, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

The New York Times published a piece this week reviewing the re-emergence of a conversation about compensating unpaid domestic labor. While showcasing certain policy proposals by campaigning Democratic candidates, it traces the roots of these ideas to both the early-20th-century progressive era and the women’s movement in the 1970s. Among the ideas discussed are plans […]

October 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill allowing college athletes to profit from endorsements—the first of its kind. In a statement, Newsom noted, “Colleges and universities reap billions from these student athletes’ sacrifices and success but block them from earning a single dollar. That’s a bankrupt model—one that puts institutions ahead of the students they […]

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