March 17, 2023 News & Commentary Texas committee considers sweeping legislation limiting municipal power; University of Chicago graduate students unionize; Tennessee Nissan technicians reject a unionizing effort; and protestors in France take to the streets after President Macron activates nuclear option to raise retirement age.
February 3, 2023 News & Commentary New Jersey advances a temp worker rights bill; Johns Hopkins doctoral students join a wave of unionized graduate students; canvassers systematically misrepresented a petition for a veto referendum on the California fast food workers bill; and strikes continue in the UK
January 10, 2023 News & Commentary NYC Nurses continue their 7,000-strong strike but may already be close to a deal, NY voters support increasing the minimum wage, and graduate students at Yale University vote for a union after decades of organizing.
December 1, 2022 News & Commentary House passes bill to impose rail labor contract; federal workers lose appeal on government-shutdown pay; NLRB says Starbucks must bargain in Seattle; Yale graduate student workers vote on unionization
Postdoc Unions Empower Workers in UC Strike and Beyond As a major UC grad-student strike gets underway, what's the state of unionization for postdocs?
November 14, 2022 News & Commentary Huge UC grad-student strike begins; Labor Department uncovers disturbing child-labor violations; Twitter layoffs continue
October 31, 2022 News & Commentary A deep dive on the UAW’s first presidential election, another update on the Starbucks labor movement, and some history — on graduate-student labor unions and labor cats.
October 26, 2022 News & Commentary Illinois to vote on a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing collective bargaining; Yale graduate students file for a union election; Striketober continues for Starbucks while negotiations stall and the company files unfair labor practice charges.
April 28, 2021 News & Commentary A recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found a significant and growing racial wealth gap between Black and white millennials. In 2016, the St. Louis Fed found that a typical millennial household had 40% less wealth than previous generations had at the same age. Re-visiting millennials three years later, the Study […]
June 10, 2020 News & Commentary Commentary continues to emerge about the Bureau of Labor Statistics May jobs report released on Friday. Ben Casselman writes for The New York Times that “No, the Jobs Report Wasn’t Rigged.” The bureau has indicated that it and the Census Bureau are investigating why the misclassification of some unemployed workers as “employed by absent from […]
