On Labor Day this year, Murphy faculty members Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce were quoted in a New York Times article entitled Study Suggests a Rebound for Union Jobs in New York. The article describes the pair’s research findings around trends in union membership in New York City, referencing their recent “State of the Unions” report — which notes a “pretty healthy uptick” in the number of union workers in New York City.
Read the full report here.
Check out our very own Ed Ott, a distinguished lecturer here at the Murphy Institute, on MSNBCS’s The Cycle discussing his recent book New Labor in New York
Dr. Stephen Brier is part of the Consortial Faculty at The Murphy Institute
The Labor Press is a regular, trustworthy source of news about NYC unions and working people’s struggles in the city and beyond. You can subscribe to it via email, which arrives weekly, and it’s a must read for anyone interested in workers’ battles for a fairer and more equitable world.
Two articles in the current issues are especially worthy of attention, focusing on the efforts to organize low-wage workers in the city:
Check out these and other reports and articles at http://www.laborpress.org/ .
Here is a discussion of the new book that JSMI faculty members Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott published this spring, NEW LABOR IN NEW YORK, hosted by Laura Flanders of Grit TV. The book, from Cornell University Press, is available for purchase from many booksellers.
Eric Lotke, Senior Research Analyst, Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Heather Ann Thompson, Professor History, Temple University, Nicole Porter, Advocacy Director, The Sentencing Project, moderator, Ed Ott, Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute on “The U.S. Prison Industrial Complex: Is it a Labor Issue?” (April 18 2013)
Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, David Coles, President, Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Canada, Bhairavi Desai, Executive director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Hector Figueroa, President, Local 32 BJ SEIU, Moderated by Sean Sweeney, Director Cornell Global Labor Institute on “Confronting the Climate Crisis: Can Labor Help Shape an Effective Strategy?” (January 17, 2013)
