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Analyzing James Damore’s Employment-Related Claims against Google: Part One

Aug 18, 2017 Matthew Bodie

When James Damore wrote his internal memo against Google’s diversity policies, was he making an impassioned plea on behalf of politically and ideologically charged ideas? Calling on his fellow workers to fight for changes to company diversity policies? Taking a stand against HR practices that illegally discriminate against protected classes of employees? Was his manifesto all, some, or none of these things?

UAW Loss at Nissan

Aug 7, 2017 Sharon Block

Workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi voted “overwhelmingly” against representation by the United Auto Workers last week. The loss marks a very disappointing outcome to a years-long organizing drive by the UAW and yet another set back for the labor movement’s attempt to bring union representation to manufacturing workers in the South. It […]

Does Nissan Believe Americans Are Second Class Citizens?

Jul 19, 2017 Sharon Block

Workers at the Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi should have a big decision to make within the next couple of weeks – whether they want to be represented by the UAW and start a new chapter in their relationship with their employer. The UAW petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election to […]

July 13, 2017
News & Commentary

Emily Miller

The United Auto Workers announced Tuesday that employees at a Nissan plant in Mississippi have filed a petition for a union election. The New York Times reports that the U.A.W. has been working to unionize the plant since 2012 and criticized, in a statement, “a pattern of labor abuses by Nissan against its predominantly African-American work […]

June 23, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

On Tuesday, President Trump nominated Marvin Kaplan to the NLRB. Kaplan is a former lawyer for the Republicans on the House education and oversight committees. The NLRB now has a Republican majority, and Kaplan’s confirmation could lead to the reversal of a number of Obama-era Board actions, as the New York Times details.

Workers Understand a Boss’s “Hopes”

Jun 9, 2017 Andrew Strom

According to the sworn testimony of former FBI Director James Comey, President Trump pulled him into a private meeting in the oval office and said, about the FBI’s ongoing investigation of former national security advisor Michael Flynn, “I hope you can let this go.” One question raised by the testimony is whether it was reasonable […]

Expanding the Workers’ Bill of Rights

May 31, 2017 Andrew Strom

I recently proposed a Workers’ Bill of Rights, and invited others to respond with suggestions for other rights that should be included. I did receive some helpful comments, and in response I would propose adding three additional rights to the ones I had previously proposed: A Right to Strike and Engage in Other Concerted Actions: […]

Do Workers Realize How Much Collective Bargaining Scares Employers?

May 16, 2017 Andrew Strom

In February, teaching fellows in eight departments at Yale University voted in favor of union representation. Rather than bargain with the teaching fellows’ union, Yale has insisted upon first exhausting its appeals, apparently hoping that Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-named appointees to the National Labor Relations Board will come to its rescue. In the meantime, some of […]

May 4, 2017
News & Commentary

Isis Freeman

The New York Times reports that Apple plans to create a $1 billion fund for the advancement of manufacturing jobs in the United States. In an interview with CNBC, Apple’s chief executive Timothy D. Cook noted, “Those manufacturing jobs create more jobs around them because you have a service industry that builds up around them.” […]

May 1, 2017
News & Commentary

Adi Kamdar

Happy May Day! Also known as International Workers’ Day (or Labour Day in many countries outside the U.S.), May 1st is celebrated by workers and unions around the world in honor of the Haymarket affair. As we noted yesterday, the tradition will continue in force today. Organized labor and immigration groups are set to protest […]

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