Tag: Labor unions
Why so many unions oppose vaccine mandates – even when they...
Jeffrey Hirsch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor unions have...
Fired for storming the Capitol? Why most workers aren’t protected for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Can you be fired for joining a violent mob that storms the Capitol?
Of course you can.
Among the jarring images...
To understand the danger of COVID-19 outbreaks in meatpacking plants, look...
Michael Haedicke, Drake University
Large meatpacking plants have become hotspots for coronavirus infection, along with jails and nursing homes. As of May 1, nearly 5,000...
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared – and then his legacy took on a...
David Scott Witwer, Pennsylvania State University
On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the Teamsters Union, disappeared.
He’d gone to a restaurant in...
How Democrats can win back workers in 2020
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
Labor unions and the workers they represent were once the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
The 2016...
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
Why Google’s employees walked out and what it could mean for...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
The recent walkout by thousands of Google employees at offices around the world was the first protest of...
Janus decision extends First Amendment ‘right of silence’
Robert A. Sedler, Wayne State University
Forty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state could require nonmembers of a public employee union...
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
