Labor Studies
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Report: Labor and Longevity: Unions and the Aging Workforce
In recent years, the once-widespread practice of long-term career employment has been abandoned by most nonunion employers, replaced by what’s been described as a “much more open, just-in-time labor market” — one in which older workers are especially likely to be laid off. Pensions have been radically transformed, while the unionized share of the workforce has
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AT&T Workers Prepare to Strike
If they haven’t won a contract by 3pm today, 40,000 AT&T workers will go on strike. Coming on the heels of last year’s Verizon strike, this marks another potentially historic action for the Communications Workers of America (CWA) — and the workers have much cause for grievance. From David Bacon at In These Times: In California
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Event: Immigration Politics in the Trump Era (5/11)
Date: May 11th, 2017 Time: 10am-6pm Location: Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor RSVP HERE Co-sponsored by the Scholars Strategy Network and Murphy Institute This all-day conference will assess the unfolding immigration crisis, highlighting the perspectives of labor unions, worker centers, community organizations, and local government. The Trump administration’s efforts to restrict immigration, expand
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Tom Cat Workers Resist
This article was originally featured at the Indypendent. By Astha Rajvanshi Workers at Tom Cat Bakery start kneading the day’s first loaves inside a Queens factory at 6 a.m. Soon after, the industrial-scale bakery begins delivering 400 varieties of baked goods to hotels, supermarkets, food chains and Starbucks locations across New York City. One of
