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New Labor Forum Highlights: May 15, 2017
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. One of the enduring conversations of the 2016 election is the significance of the white working- class Trump vote. According…
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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…
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Avoiding Concessions Under Trump
In a recent In These Times article (When Raising the Minimum Wage is a Bad Thing), Murphy Prof. Stephanie Luce and Jen Kern warn of the perils of conceding ground on minimum wage in the name of short term gains: First, we cannot accept short-term gains in the form of a higher wage if they mean concessions…
