Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board finally released its much-anticipated decision on a case that sets a new paradigm for labor relations and will likely send ripples through the workforce, particularly in the contracting and franchise sectors of the economy. “The decision today could be one of the more significant by the NLRB in the […]
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How Domestic-Worker Activists Helped Fight Jim Crow
From the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, to Ava DuVernay’s award-winning movie Selma, to #BlackLivesMatter activists who have refused to stay silent in the face of racial injustice, there has been no shortage of civil rights remembrances this year. And yet, there’s plenty about the struggle for racial justice many of us are […]
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The Labor Prospect: Getting Sick of No Paid Sick Leave
The case for paid leave, domestic workers win minimum wage protecton, and the fight to grow union membership at McDonald’s.Â
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The Labor Prospect: Why Jonah Peretti is Wrong on Unions
Buzzfeed’s CEO doesn’t like unions, the minimum wage fight hits the Deep South, and Amazon’s cut-throat culture. Â
Posted inEducation in America
Unionized Charter Teachers in Chicago Reject Merit Pay
Last week, unionized teachers at three schools operated by Civitas-a subsidiary of the Chicago International Charter School network-negotiated a new contract that no longer has merit pay in it. This means 31 out of 32 unionized Chicago charter schools have now rejected merit pay. And the one unionized charter that still has it-Rudy Lozano Leadership […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Banking on More Than $15
An inside look at bank-teller organizing, the latest front in the fight for higher wages.
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The Labor Prospect: Summertime (Job) Blues
Death of the summer job, living wage politics, and why Black Lives Matter and Fight for 15 depend on each other.Â
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Boosting Low Pay
A look inside the Summer 2015 cover package on new fronts in the labor movement. Â
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NLRB Rules Teach for America Members Have a Right to Unionize
In another interesting development for the movement to unionize charter schools, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that Teach for America corps members should have been allowed to vote in a Detroit charter union election earlier this year. Detroit 90/90, a charter management organization for the University Prep charter network, said that Teach […]
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The Gray Lady Agrees: Southern Workers Are Cheaper Than China’s
Today’s New York Times features a front-page story on Chinese textile firms opening new factories not in China but in the American South. With the steep rise in the wages of Chinese workers and the stagnation (at best) of the wages of American workers-Southern workers most particularly-and with the higher levels of productivity and lower […]
