SCOTUS Hears Fiery Arguments In Case That Could Gut Public Sector Unions
From NPR News: The Supreme Court heard fiery arguments Monday in a case that could remove a key revenue stream for public sector unions. A sharply divided court could be…
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Market Update: Why Rising Wages Are Scaring the Hell Out of Stock Investors
From today’s Slate Magazine: On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor released a strong jobs report showing wages rising at their fastest rate since the Great Recession. Then, the stock…
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Salaried or Hourly? The Gaps in Family Friendly Policies Begin to Close
From the New York Times: More large companies like Starbucks and Walmart are starting to see the value in paid leave and other benefits for parents, including hourly workers, though…
LA Times journalists vote to unionize
From today’s LA Times: Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, a first for the 136-year-old news organization that for much of its history…
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MLK Day 2018, A Time to Reflect on Socio-Economic Injustice In All Forms
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…
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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From New York Times: From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming…
Working During Holidays? Increasingly, More and More of Us Are Working Too
From National Public Radio: It can be a drag but working on the holidays is inevitable for some jobs. A nurse, a cook and a ballet wardrobe supervisor share what…
Labor Board Reverses Ruling That Helped Workers Fight Large Chains
From today’s New York Times: The National Labor Relations Board on Thursday overturned a key Obama-era precedent that had given workers significant leverage in challenging companies like fast-food and hotel…
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Women and Power in the Workplace
From today’s New York Times: “Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine,” the critical theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney wrote in their 2013 essay “The Undercommons,”…
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Proof Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad
From today’s New York Times by Eduardo Porter Bethamy Magrow is grateful that the minimum wage in New York City is rising to $13 at the end of next month.…