Tag: labor rights
Amazon, Starbucks and the sparking of a new American union movement
John Logan, San Francisco State University
April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history...
MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement fails to address players’ biggest grievances
Victor Matheson, College of the Holy Cross
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball,”...
Why women need male allies in the workplace – and why...
Meg Warren, Western Washington University
Women and groups advocating for gender equality are increasingly urging men to become allies...
Biden targets noncompete agreements, which restrict the job opportunities of millions...
Raymond Hogler, Colorado State University
Most American workers are hired “at will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the...
82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as...
Chris Knoester, The Ohio State University and Richard J. Petts, Ball State University
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Parental leave laws are failing single parents
Deborah Widiss, Indiana University
The two parties in Congress don’t agree on much these days. However, in the final days of December, they struck a...
How much of a difference does the number of kids in...
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
Chicago’s teachers went on strike in October, suspending instruction for the city’s public school students for 11 days.
Educators in the...
Even when they aren’t fired for being pregnant or gay, teachers...
Kyle Greenwalt, Michigan State University
Pregnant teachers in classrooms are routine these days. But the law didn’t always protect expectant women in any workplace.
As part...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
