Tag: Labor unions
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...
Here’s how workers would spend the corporate tax cut – if...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
Over 200 CEOs have said they will raise wages or give bonuses as a result of the large...
How union stakes in ailing papers like the Chicago Sun-Times may...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The recent purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times for a nominal US$1 by a consortium of labor-affiliated organizations and individual investors...
EXPLORING NATURE
Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people...
Ana Clara Bobadilla, Colorado State University
Everyday human behavior is guided and shaped by the search for rewards. This...
