Car wash and fast food workers in New York waged a gritty, three-year battle to improve their wages and working conditions, and spawned a nationwide movement to “Fight for $15.”
Working in America
Posted inEconomic Policy
Best of the Prospect 2015
The Prospect weighed in on 2015’s tumultuous debates over economic inequality, prison reform, campus sexual assault, and more. Here are some of our favorite stories from 2015.Â
Posted inEconomic Policy
No Raise This Year? These Four Charts Explain Why
New data show just how wide the productivity-pay gap has become.Â
Posted inEconomic Policy
Democrats Beat Back Anti-Labor Riders
There’s nothing business-friendly Republicans won’t try in their effort to dismantle organized labor. The recent budget showdown was no exception. However, rather surprisingly, organized labor avoided a shellacking. “We’re relieved,” says Bill Samuel, the AFL-CIO’s director of government affairs. “There was a whole laundry list of rollbacks on worker rights and to the [Department of […]
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The Labor Prospect: Is There An On-Demandate?
Seattle votes to let Uber and Lyft drivers unionize, Black Lives Matter targets police contracts, and the White House comes out strongly for the Cadillac Tax.Â
Posted inWorking in America
A Safety Net for On-Demand Workers?
A new paper suggests how to better regulate the gig economy, but the plan may only reinforce its worst abuses.
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The Labor Prospect: Southern Struggles
VW workers vote to unionize in Tennessee, right-to-work falls through in Ohio, and the NLRB takes on labor violations at Nissan.Â
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Security for a Precarious Workforce
What will it take, economically and politically, to broadly regularize employment? Â
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Q&A: How to Slash Emissions While Creating Jobs
In his new book Greening the Global Economy, economist Robert Pollin argues that that investing in renewable energy will both fight global warming and boost employment worldwide.
Posted inEducation in America
Can Teachers Unions Help Online Charter Schools?
After a lengthy battle, California teachers have won the right to form a union in their online charter school network.
