I have a piece up at Alternet on restaurant labor, examining the exploitative nature of the $2.13 an hour tipped minimum wageand exploring some possibilities to even the playing field. An excerpt: Workers themselves are also fighting for their rights. Restaurants Opportunity Centers United is...
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Jake Blumgart with an excellent discussion of why labor rights should be considered civil rights: It is for these reasons that Kahlenberg and Marvit argue that Title VII of the.
Speaking of the new Gilded Age, Sara Robinson has an outstanding piece on the decline of the 40 hour work week. Many interesting points. Robinson puts a lot of blame.
Josh Eidelson adds an important angle to the recent coverage of the exploitation of NCAA athletes by writers such as Taylor Branch and Joe Nocera. Eidelson explores the nascent attempts to unionize athletes at D-I schools. Athletes have talked about this since the 90s, even...
There's an effort to turn the site of the 1894 Pullman Strike into a national park site. You should support this. I have not yet discussed the Pullman Strike in.
Ned Resnikoff really gets after Jessica Flanigan for misunderstanding the relationship between the labor movement and Progressives of the early 20th century. Flanigan: Internal to progressivism there is a tension.
The Republican war on labor is reaching a fevered pitch in Georgia, where the Constitution is being shredded in order to protect employers from inconvenient protestors. This effort is supported by Waffle House Vice President and Georgia State Senator Don Balfour, in case connections between...
Josh Eidelson has an important piece at The Nation reminding us of the National Labor Relations Board's vital importance for workers, an especially important issue given its extremely tenuous lifeline.
Gordon Lafer has an important piece in Radical Philosophy exploring 2011's widespread attack on working-class and union rights in so many states. Lafer rounds up the massive damage done to.
There's been a lot of discussion lately about tipping culture and the awfulness of it all. It gives customers tremendous power over the people who wait on them, often dooming waitstaff to lives of poverty. It's another way to steal wages from the paychecks of...
It's not like we don't already know that the legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter is amazing. But he's also super cool for playing a big role in the American Federation.
It is my contention that we will see bills in the next 5 years that outright ban unionization, even in the private sector. And even I am too pessimistic, we.