Businesses are hiking prices to take advantage of consumers. They learned it from Uber.
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Posted inWorking in America
What (Not Who) Will Follow Mary Kay Henry?
The groundbreaking president of SEIU is stepping down, at a time when the possibilities for organizing American workers may be rising.
Posted inTAP
How to Reform Labor Law Without Exactly Reforming Labor Law
Today on TAP: Federal agencies and Democratic states are enhancing worker rights despite congressional inaction.
Posted inWorking in America
Half a Million California Workers Get a Raise—and a Seat at the Table
Fast-food workers compel McDonald’s and Starbucks to abandon a ballot measure that would have squelched both.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Long-Awaited Rules on Private Equity Mostly Involve Disclosure
The industry watered down some of the tougher prohibitions. But it’s a start.
Posted inTAP
The Fast-Food Empire Strikes Back
Today on TAP: One day after sectoral bargaining is signed into California law, the industry announces a ballot measure to repeal it.
Posted inTAP
It’s Biden vs. Newsom for the Title of Labor’s Best Friend
Today on TAP: Labor Day weekend sees them duking it out on the question of who’s more pro-union.
Posted inWorking in America
California Tries Something Novel: Enhancing Worker Power
The legislature enacts industry-wide bargaining in fast food—something new under the American sun.
Posted inWorking in America
Thinking Sectorally
Our current model of collective bargaining leaves millions of workers out in the cold. Sectoral bargaining could change all that—and, just maybe, rebuild our shrunken middle class.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Shareholders Steer McDonald’s Into Pointless Equity Audit
The burger giant is following the lead of other companies, but the track record of ‘civil rights audits’ is poor.