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May 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

On Tuesday, the Clean Slate for Worker Power released a report outlining a series of policy recommendations designed to fundamentally reform U.S. labor law and build worker power. At a high level, the policies are aimed at developing a regime of sectoral bargaining, enlarging the scope of mandatory bargaining subjects to encompass subcontracting, relocation, and […]

April 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Marina Multhaup

On Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Daunte Wright was shot to death by police. Daunte Wright was a 20-year-old Black man who was killed during a traffic stop. Daunte Wright was described by his brother as someone who would “give you the shirt off his back.” The police officer who killed Daunte Wright, Kim […]

July 13, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

Major airlines are threatening massive layoffs if air travel does not increase soon. United Airlines gave notice to 36,000 employees—nearly half of its US workers—that they may be laid off by October if federal aid expires, Bloomberg reports. Similarly, Southwest Airlines announced that it could cut as many as 20,000 jobs, and that unless air […]

June 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

According to a study by Bloomberg, as many as 30% of current job losses could be permanent. The study suggests that many of these jobs will succumb to what is known as “reallocation shock” in which the current economic disruption essentially leads to a different makeup of the economy. Retail stores, for instance, may never […]

June 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

As Mackenzie and Zach discussed earlier this week, responses to recent protests by union leaders have reflected a growing divide within the movement. On Monday, the Writers Guild of America, East joined existing calls by the Flight Attendants and numerous labor-adjacent organizations to expel the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA) from the AFL-CIO. In […]

Police Unions: It’s Time to Change the Law and End the Abuse

Jun 4, 2020 Benjamin Sachs

Collective action is the source of working people’s power. It is the source of the labor movement’s power. It is the source of power that has enabled workers to secure – through unionization and collective bargaining – fairness and dignity at work, living wages, protection against discrimination and harassment, and safe and healthy working conditions. […]

June 2, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

The uprising in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery has left a mark on the labor movement. After protestors broke windows and set the lobby of the AFL-CIO’s headquarters ablaze on Sunday night, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689, a majority black local that represents transit workers in metro […]

Today’s News & Commentary — September 7, 2018

Sep 7, 2018 Jenny Braun

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 increases in six cities – Chicago, D.C., Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle. The researchers intend […]

April 22, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

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 in favor, and 1,523 were cast against. Exit polls conducted by the Harvard […]

Reforming Police Unions

Jul 31, 2017 Catherine Fisk

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 conceives of its obligation as protecting cops who appear to have engaged in clear misconduct rather […]

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