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Call for Papers from The National center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education.
The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College, CUNY has issued a Call for Papers and Proposed Workshops for its 2015 annual conference that will take place in New York City on April 19-21, 2015. The theme of next year¹s conference will be Thinking about…
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Labor’s Only Real Choice: Beating Harris v. Quinn and Right-to-Work Attacks From the Inside Out
Jane McAlevey is working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. This article was written by originally posted in The Nation. Unions are in trouble. Short of a giant meteor crashing on top of the nation’s union headquarters emblazoned with the words, “warning, you will soon be crushed by right-to-work laws,” few things could…
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Is Harris v. Quinn a Threat to Labor Peace?
Joshua Freeman is a professor of Labor History at The Murphy Institute. This article was originally published in The Nation. The five-to-four Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn is a blow to organized labor, a movement that in recent decades has suffered one blow after another, with victories few and far between. But it…
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