Tag: Unions
Unions fight to secure better pay and conditions for workers, but...
Emma Sara Hughes, University of Liverpool
Over the past century, unions have successfully campaigned for a minimum wage, holiday...
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...
Watch for these conflicts over education in 2022
Joseph J. Ferrare, University of Washington, Bothell and Kate Phillippo, Loyola University Chicago
At school board meetings across the country in 2021, parents engaged in...
Cellphone bans in the workplace are legal and more common among...
Richard Carlson, South Texas College of Law Houston
Cellphones in the workplace can be a distraction – but they...
Research shows labor unions help lower the risk of poverty
Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota and David Brady, University of California, Riverside
The Research Brief is a short take...
NCAA amateurism appears immune to COVID-19 – despite tide in public...
Chris Knoester, The Ohio State University
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, college sports have mostly chugged along – albeit with cancellations, postponements and pauses in play.
While...
Workers left out of government and business response to the coronavirus
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
As the coronavirus crisis unfolds, workers and families around the country are finding out how weak the U.S....
The Culinary Union of Nevada takes a pass on endorsing –...
Ruben J. Garcia, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A picket line outside the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas proved to be a hot ticket...
EXPLORING NATURE
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
