Unions
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New Labor Forum Highlights: July 2020
The New Labor Forum has a monthly 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. Well in advance of the fall 2020 issue of New Labor Forum , we are releasing an important article by David Unger on…
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Announcing: Digital Media Rising
In 2015, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, had their first victory organizing in digital media when writers at Gawker Media voted overwhelmingly to form a union. Five years later, it is clear that the Guild’s first organizing victory at Gawker Media was the spark that lit a fire of media workers joining unions across…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: March 2020
The New Labor Forum has a monthly 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. The global video game industry – catering to 2.5 billion gamers across the world who annually purchase upwards of $152 billion…
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SLU Professors Publish Annual State of the Unions Report
With the release of their annual report on the state of labor in the United States, SLU professors Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce have shown that organized labor remains far stronger in New York City and state than elsewhere in the nation — but that union erosion has also contributed disproportionately to low-wage job growth.…
