Uber and Lyft drivers plan to strike Monday, refusing to drive in protest of impending pay docks. The Los Angeles Times reports on the drivers’ rising ire and on their recent organizing efforts. Protest organizers/leaders have expressed that pay may be the r... More »
The trans-continental Marriott strike continues without flagging. Seven thousand workers in Boston, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, and throughout Hawaii are disrupting operations at dozens of Marriott-owned hotels. The SF Examiner describes the... More »
Elon Musk, Tesla, Inc.’s CEO, has been no stranger to scrutiny. But a recent appearance on a radio show has exacerbated concerns that Musk is unfit to lead the automobile company, all while infuriating lower-level workers who have been held to far higher stan... More »
Jobs don’t fall prey to higher minimum wages, according to researchers at U.C. Berkeley. Completing the first comprehensive empirical study of its kind, Sylvia Allegretto, Anna Godoey, Carl Nadler, and Michael Reich analyzed the impact of incremental wage incr... More »
In an interview with the New York Times, Chinese artist Cao Fei discusses how her art examines economic development in her country and broader questions about the nature of labor. Her new video piece takes place in a factor staffed almost entirely by robots. T... More »
Friday was a big day for unionization efforts in New England. Late in the afternoon, election results revealed that Harvard University teaching and research assistants had voted to unionize. During the election held on April 18 and 19, 1,931 ballots were cast... More »
The many recent instances of police killing civilians have sparked calls to fire and prosecute the officers involved, and outrage at the police unions’ defense of accused officers and resistance to summary discipline. People rightly wonder why the union concei... More »
March 24th, 2019