Michelle Rhee's organization StudentsLast is not just anti-teacher union. It's anti-collective bargaining more broadly. The organization has contributed $500,000 against Michigan's Proposal 2, which would make the right to collective bargaining a part of the state constitution.
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We've seen a lot of coverage of lockouts lately because professional sports league owners have used the tactic to try and wring major concessions out of unions. But it is.
On October 23, 1976, International Woodworkers of America Local 3-101 in Everett, Washington had its monthly union meeting. Big deal, you might be thinking. Locals have meetings all the time.
This paper demonstrates that since 1948, manufacturing jobs have consistently risen during Democratic presidencies and have declined precipitously during Republican administrations. As the authors point out, some of this is luck, but most definitely not all of it. There are real policy differences over economic...
The Economist decides to hide a tasty anti-union nugget inside an essay theoretically dedicated to some sort of radical centrism. The priority should be a Rooseveltian attack on monopolies and.
As reported on Up with Chris this morning, Mike Elk has an important story out on how the Koch Brothers are trying to influence workers in the companies they own.
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart the hagiography that plagued early literature on the United Farm Workers, he is still the...
Wendy Lyon with an interesting piece about the Irish labor movement explicitly excluding sex workers from its definition of labor. It's hardly surprising, both within the Irish context of discomfort.
I love the Seattle Seahawks. But they just won the worst refereed game in the history of the National Football League. After bogus call after bogus call, affecting both teams.
When workers are rioting because their lives are so awful that there's absolutely nothing to lose, it's pretty bloody awful. Let's just hope international pressure continues to push Apple to "work with Foxconn" to improve conditions. After all, what power does one of the world's...
On September 22, 1946, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO's.
In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is.