The creation of 257,000 new jobs in January is surely good news, but it’s been a long time since most workers have seen substantial raises.
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George Wallace’s Ghost
View image | gettyimages.com My post at the Plum Line today is about a brewing states’-rights battle in Alabama, where the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has ordered probate court judges in the state not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a federal court’s order, because Moore […]
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To Check Power of Greedy Bosses, Workers Need to Bargain in New Ways
When workers’ power is diminished and people’s voices are shut out of the workplace, job quality and job standards suffer.
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Photo of the Day – Nomination Hearing Edition
View image | gettyimages.com This is from the confirmation hearings for Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General; that’s her in the center. I think Cruz is saying to himself, “Can I be president and serve on the Supreme Court at the same time? I don’t think the Constitution says otherwise. Yeah, that’d be real nice…”
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Labor at a Crossroads: How Unions Can Thrive in the 21st Century
First, stop the self-flagellation: The labor movement lives, and is getting stronger.
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Gertner Responds to Brodsky on University Rules for Campus Sexual Assault Justice
The author took issue in the Prospect with Harvard’s new guidelines for disciplinary proceedings in campus rape cases. Alexandra Brodsky offered an opposing view on our website.Â
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Fair Process, Not Criminal Process, Is the Right Way to Address Campus Sexual Assault
School investigations don’t look like trials because they aren’t supposed to.
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Are the French Free Expression Hypocrites?
Last week, I suggested that while the outpouring of support and unity in the wake of the horrific murders of staff members of Charlie Hebdo in France seems to be about free expression in the abstract and not about defending particular kinds of expression, we might be misleading ourselves a bit on that score. Many […]
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Labor at a Crossroads: In Defense of Members-Only Unionism
Allowing members-only unions would protect the rights of those who wish to bargain collectively even if they fail to surmount all the legal hurdles necessary to establish the union as the representative of all employees in the workplace.
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Remedy for an Ailing Civil Justice System: Preventive Legal Care
The proper and efficient administration of justice is in jeopardy when we leave so many people to their own devices in our courts.
