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August 21, 2017
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

Good Jobs Nation, a coalition launched in 2013 to pressure the Obama administration on trade and wage issues, today launches a two-week tour throughout the Midwest. The tour is one of a number of efforts by labor leaders to pressure the Trump White House to deliver on jobs and trade, reports the Washington Post. Although […]

July 6, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

According to US News, immigration activists and labor groups are holding a rally in Boston to protest President Trump’s increase of deportations of undocumented immigrants. Organizers also note they are opposed to President Trump’s travel ban. Finally, U.S. Congressman Ed Markey is expected to attend and speak. As Texas’ Legislature heads back for a […]

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 […]

June 6, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

Fewer American teenagers are looking for summer jobs, despite more employers looking to hire seasonal workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects this summer’s teen workforce participation rate to be around 40% as compared with 70% in the late 1980s. The BLS has identified several potential causes for this drop-off including: (1) increased summer […]

May 25, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The Department of Labor has taken formal steps towards repealing the ‘persuader rule,’ a regulation that has been in full effect for less than a year. As we summarized last May, the persuader rule was the Obama Department of Labor’s attempt to plug a loophole in the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: it extends […]

Guest Post: The People’s Climate March and Labor

May 2, 2017 reneegerni

Renee Gerni is an Assistant General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union. The views expressed in this post are solely her own and should not be attributed to SEIU. This past weekend, when hundreds of thousands rallied in the People’s Climate March, a significant number of the marchers were union members. In fact, the labor […]

Weekend News & Commentary—April 15-16, 2017

Apr 16, 2017 Hannah Belitz

Yesterday, in dozens of cities across the U.S., tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets to demand that Trump release his tax returns. Reuters explains that organizers of the “Tax March” wanted to draw attention to Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. The marches were planned for April 15 because it is the traditional filing deadline […]

April 16, 2017
News & Commentary

Hannah Belitz

Yesterday, in dozens of cities across the U.S., tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets to demand that Trump release his tax returns. Reuters explains that organizers of the “Tax March” wanted to draw attention to Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. The marches were planned for April 15 because it is the traditional filing deadline […]

The Union Household Vote Revisited

Apr 11, 2017 Jake Rosenfeld and Patrick Denice

A spate of labor-related election postmortems converged on one key theme: Donald Trump managed to cleave significant union support away from the Democrats. “Donald Trump Got Reagan-Like Support from Union Households,” ran one typical headline; “It Looks Like Donald Trump Did Really Well With Union Households,” declared another. But what if these prognoses have it […]

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August 21, 2017

July 6, 2017

Workers Understand a Boss’s “Hopes”

June 6, 2017

May 25, 2017

Guest Post: The People’s Climate March and Labor

Weekend News & Commentary—April 15-16, 2017

April 16, 2017

The Union Household Vote Revisited