The Real Enemy of Unions: Why Organized Labor Should Join with Entrepreneurs to Bust the Corporate Monopolies Threatening Them BothLast August, on a blazing-hot Nebraska evening, I sat in a cool hotel bar in downtown Omaha and...Lynn, Barry C...
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 ...
By walking out and fighting back, the TUGSA workers had also tapped into an ongoing wave of labor actions among workers in higher education, regionally as well as nationwide. The massive University of California graduate student workers’ strike that ended in January 2022 was thelargest academic ...
Why does the United States have fewer workers than China but a bigger economy? Why don't US fast food workers organize into a union to get better wages and conditions? If someone favors the free movement of labor withi...
rule change allowing workers to vote on whether to unionize soon after a union has been proposed, rather than allowing employers to delay the vote for years. Many employers have used the delaying tactics to retaliate against workers who try to organize, and intimidate others into rejecting a ...
Looking at how the global factories organize and control their labor forces sustainably and effectively, a considerable number of studies have focused on the politics of production but have seldom discussed the organization of the labor market beyond the workplace. Based on fieldwork about labor recr...
The underlying premise, that such aides are bona fide state workers whose collective bargaining rights can be awarded by labor-backed politicians, seems a bit of a stretch. But beyond the specific details, the lawsuit has morphed into one that deals with a much broader issue: Can the governmen...
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 ...
It’s as if they didn’t learn a thing from the 2012 elections. Republicans are on the same suicide mission as before - - trying to block immigration reform (if they can’t scuttle it in the Senate, they’re ready to in the House), roll back the clock on
Japan's largest trade union, Rengo, said that workers at the country's biggest firms are set for the sharpest wage spike in more than three decades. Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda has repeatedly said the outcome of this year's wage negotiations will influence the central bank's decision...