Michigan Republicans are very special. After passing right to work legislation in at best a marginally legal manner, they are seeking to punish universities who are negotiating new contracts with faculty that would delay the legislation until the end of the contract. Specifically, they are...
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Worth remembering in this week of March Madness that the labor, i.e,, the players, receive not one dime of the millions in revenue that the NCAA and schools pull in.
In case anyone thinks that companies aren't very excited about the evisceration of unions and labor regulations so that they can go back to pre-1935 ways of dealing with workers,.
The labor historian Cindy Hahamovitch on the already terrible agricultural guestworker program that agricultural interests want to deregulate even more in a new immigration bill. The guestworker program continued but in recent years abuses have gotten nastier. When growers demanded a bigger and less regulated...
The Center for Investigative Reporting has an outstanding animation up about fish politics and who controls the fisheries. Essentially, the catch shares system for regulating fisheries has turned into creating.
The Ten Commandments of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, submitted to The Carpenter by John Quinn of Local 714 in Queens, 1915. 1. Thou shalt be a union carpenter, a.
Last week I talked about that awful Mother Jones article blaming AFSCME for keeping prisons open in Illinois. I focused on the problems with the terminology. AFSCME strikes back against the article's inaccuracies about its own position. Once again, Mother Jones generally is not good...
On March 7, 1932, several thousand unemployed workers marched toward Henry Ford's River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Upon reaching the complex, the city police and Ford's armed guards, very.
On March 4, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, deciding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applied.
Got to give it to the Soviets, they did not mess around in showing the consequences of unsafe workplaces. Of course, like American employers blaming workers for accidents, I have little doubt that the Soviet state could have mandated safeguards on machines that would have...
Too often, including in the comments at this blog, the idea that labor unions and environmentalists have irreconcilable goals goes unchallenged. But there is in fact significant common ground. Over.
On Tuesday, the AFL-CIO gave tacit support for building the Keystone XL Pipeline, a very disappointing development for many involved in the climate movement, as well for some of the.