In Unions, Strength; Why the Democrats Need LaborIN UNIONS, STRENGTH WHY THE DEMOCRATS NEED LABOR What is killing the center-left in...By MeyersonHaroldNation
In August, 65,000 Verizon workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America, won wage increases totaling nearly 11% and converted temporary jobs to full-time status. Not only did the settlement preserve fully paid healthcare premiums for all active and retired unionized employees, but ...
54 Starbucks company-owned stores have formally organized. Workers at anAmazonwarehouse in New York City recentlyvotedto form the first union at the second-largest U.S. private employer and join the Amazon Labor Union.GoogleFiber contractors in Kansas City successfullyvotedto unionize their ...
Since the 1970s, there has been increasing discussion of the labor market as a concrete product of social construction. Some scholars begin with studying particularities of labor as a commodity and argue that workers are neither a carrier of abstract labor nor a homogenized commodity. Prevalent and...
the unions’ opponents have cast this case as a major test of collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. Clearly unions, and the union-friendly Obama administration, are concerned. The administration urged the court not to hear the case, and now warns that “the challengers offer no...
Howard Kimeldorf, "Bringing Unions Back In (or Why We Need a New Old Labor History)," Labor History, 32, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 91-103, followed by responses from Michael Kazin, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, Bruce Nelson, Daniel Nelson, 104-29. See also the roundtable ...
The world's largest automakerToyota onWednesday had agreed to the biggest annual pay increase for workers in 25 years. Market speculation reached a fever pitch this week as variouscorporate giantsannounced robust salary increments, in some instances exceeding the unions' demands. ...
power inside the party that a New Democrat like Bill Clinton received in 1992. The only way they’d be able to attract a following inside the Party would be to commit themselves to policies they’d have to abandon immediately upon getting nominated, as Mitt Romney did with disastrous results...
This amalgam of supply and demand factors led to a considerable number of skilled footwear workers in Agra. Thereby Muslims were mostly the shop-owners and the workers were mostly Jatavs. The artisans centred around specific localities and the actual work used to happen in clusters of ...
The region experienced a sharp downturn in industrial activity from the increased cost of domestic labor, competition from overseas, technology advancements replacing workers, and thecapital-intensivenature of manufacturing. Other states also experienced declines in manufacturing, such as in the Deep South...