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June 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

An unprecedent heat wave continues to scorch the West Coast, and employers in the agricultural industry have been scrambling to harvest their fields before crops wither in the blistering heat. As a result, the region’s agricultural laborers—who already find themselves subjected to highly exploitative conditions—have been pushed even harder in recent days. Thousands of fruit […]

June 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

This morning, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May jobs report. It determined that 559,000 jobs were created or restored in May—around double that of April—and the unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage points to 5.8 percent. Labor force participation showed little change, and some of the fall in the unemployment rate is […]

California’s FAST Act: A Promising Move Toward Sectoral Regulation

Apr 30, 2021 Benjamin Sachs

In the Clean Slate final report, we argued that a labor law designed to enable workers to build meaningful economic and political power should require both workplace-level and sectoral collective bargaining. Sectoral bargaining is essential because it positions workers to exercise countervailing power at a level of the economy where corporate power often has its […]

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