Labor
-
Event: Renewing the Alliance: Unions and Co-ops Fight for Worker Power (6/9)
Friday, June 9, 2017 * 1pm to 5pm Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center 150 West 62nd Street * New York City **FREE** Register at http://bit.ly/2qczTH3 Directions: http://bit.ly/2rL7zNs Under fierce attack from the corporate sector, labor unions are exploring worker co-ops as a way to organize new members, save members’ jobs, create…
-
Millennials and Boomers Explore Shared Challenges
Last Friday, the Murphy Institute hosted Building Bridges Across the Generation Gap, an event designed to bring millennials and baby boomers together to talk about the challenges faced by the two groups. Jillian Berman covered the event for MarketWatch: “This notion of generational warfare is a red herring,” Eric Kingson, a professor of social work at Syracuse…
-
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…
-
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…
