Why doesn’t the state figure out whether ballot initiatives are legal before people vote on them?
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Posted inWorking in America
The Co-op Movement Is Taking On Big Tech
Gross economic inequality and poor working conditions are fomenting a nationwide co-op movement. Its next target is Big Tech.
Posted inWorking in America
Can We Protect America’s Workers?
The Protecting America’s Workers Act has been introduced and neglected year after year. But do OSHA’s problems run deeper?
Posted inTAP
Biden and Walsh: To the Rescue of Gig Workers
Today on TAP: David Weil to the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division?
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
The Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
A Prospect series on how day laborers, domestics, fry cooks, and others have built institutions and won power to better their lives
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Corporate America’s Empty Threats
Uber, Amazon, and others continually vow to leave any place where public-interest regulation might limit their profits. Don’t buy it.
Posted inCabinet Watch
A Quiet Return to Government for an Obama-Era Labor Official
Seth Harris, who co-authored an early blueprint of what Uber and Lyft would adopt in California’s Prop 22, is back in the White House in a labor policy position.
Posted inWorking in America
Prop 22 Is Here, and It’s Already Worse Than Expected
Not only are gig companies gouging workers and consumers, but traditional firms are benefiting from the substandard labor regime as well.
Posted inDay One Agenda
How Biden Can Raise Some Wages Even if Congress Won’t
There’s a lot he and his Labor Department can do, no matter what Congress may or may not enact.
Posted inPolitics
Policy Matters
Divorced from candidates and to a degree from partisanship, policies that make a tangible difference in people’s lives once again performed well at the ballot.