No, not the superb labor newspaper, just a few links with commentary. 1. Dave Johnson has an interesting post up (with many links) on the NLRB decision to speed up labor elections, noting the power of recess appointments. The deciding votes in this election were...
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Good news here: The labor board is proposing to tighten up the process by ensuring that employers, employees and unions receive needed information sooner and by delaying litigation over many.
Miners experienced awful conditions in the coal regions of West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal companies ruled the region like a fiefdom. Impoverished workers had few connections with.
I found this Times piece on the United Food and Commercial Workers' attempt to build a sort of quasi-union at Wal-Mart fascinating. And I wholeheartedly approve. It's almost impossible to unionize a Wal-Mart store. They employ the top union busters in the business and they...
Yglesias takes exception to my support of the Huffington Post boycott. He is misguided on several points: 1. Yglesias seems to think that I am trying to take away his.
As some but by no means all progressives know, the Newspapers Guild and the National Writers Union have called a boycott against Huffington Post for refusing to pay its writers..
Shorter Glenn Harlan Reynolds: The non-violence of public employee unions is evidence that they lack commitment. And verbatim: In fact, it made them so formidable that they were able to put together unions solid enough to send the industries they depended on overseas, where labor...
Damn. And just when LGM was thinking about offering an unpaid internship: With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading.
Horrible stuff:The bountiful harvest of California strawberries, melons, grapes, peaches and nectarines overflows the nation's summer tables. But that luscious crop mostly emerges thanks to farm workers who labor in.
I strongly endorse Sheehan's remarks, especially with respect to the comparison with Upshaw: Don Fehr took on this task and did it very well for a quarter-century. He did it as his peers in the NFL, NBA, and NHL all lost major labor battles and...
Back in the spring of 2001, the grad students at the University of Washington went on strike to gain recognition of union affiliation. Watkins, Lemieux and I walked the line.
Tomorrow, I'll be mailing my vote to approve our faculty's new collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated over the course of about 14 months in 2007 and early 2008.In the.