I frequently get asked why, if unions are now so popular, there aren't more unions. Some think unions are falling down on the job, Well, there's not nothing to that. But the real issue is that labor law is completely rigged in favor of employers...
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One of the good things about Labor Day is that publications will actually publish labor stories. Here's a few of them. First, I am curious about this Hulu series The.
I have an op-ed in today's New York Times (wow, anyone can get published in major newspapers these days!) about how one of the lessons of the Amazon defeat is.
Larry Mishel, Lane Windham, and Lynn Rhinehart have a new report out of the Economic Policy Institute that explains the decline of private sector unionism. The short answer is that these unions declined because corporations took over the labor law establishment and made punishments for...
The United States has not passed a comprehensive pro-labor bill since the Fair Labor Standards Act, a mere 82 years ago. And I'd say the chances of passing anything in.
I've haven't been blogging much lately because I've been both researching and working on other, longer pieces. But one thing I've been doing in those longer pieces is talking a.
There's quite a disconnect in how we are talking about work as the left has revitalized itself over the past decade. There is a nearly unprecedented conversation about big issues of inequality and the need to address these problems. That's led to serious proposals about...
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 has been pursuing a sophisticated legal strategy that forces conservatives to defend their blatant anti-union legislation and court decisions. When Indiana passed its.
As I have said repeatedly, for all that so-called union reformers want to blame unions for their own problems today, it just doesn't fit the evidence. Even if many union.
Republicans continue to freak out over the Obama administration's continuing advancements in giving American workers a fair shake. They are going to do whatever they can to repeal those regulations, even though these strategies won't work. Buried on page 523 of the Senate's proposed National...
Does labor law protect cussing at your bosses? It depends. And that's the subject of this story about how Murray Energy, a horrible coal mining company, has fired a couple.
The United States has not passed comprehensive labor law reform that was pro-worker since 1938. 77 years is a long time. Democrats are now proposing a law to change that..