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Unions Provide Benefits to Vulnerable During Economic Crisis
According to a report from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, “Latinos in non-union jobs were seven times more likely than Latinos in labor unions to fall into unemployment during three key months early in the Pandemic.” The report studied the Current...
Under Biden, NLRB Works for Working Americans
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced on November 1 that it had recovered more than $56 million in backpay, fees, dues, and fines in Fiscal Year 2021. Additionally, 6,307 employees were offered reinstatement to jobs from which they had been unlawfully...
EPI: Build Back Better Act Would Transform Millions of Lives
“The Build Back Better Act will support 2.3 million jobs per year in its first five years,” says Adam S. Hersh, an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) visiting economist. In a blog written for the nonprofit think tank, Hersh explains that the pending legislation would, in...
Walsh Walks the Line with Kellogg’s Workers
In an unprecedented show of support from the Biden Administration, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joined Kellogg’s workers on a picket line in October. Walsh, a 32-year member of Laborers’ Local 223 in Boston, told striking workers outside the Kellogg Company plant in...
Two-Tier Wage Systems Fueling Strikes
According to Bloomberg Law’s database of work stoppages, the U.S. has seen nearly 40 strikes since August 1. That number is almost double the number of work actions compared to the same time last year. After decades of decline in influence and power, organized labor...
