New Orleans Unfortunately, the issue of home care workers building their own historic union in Illinois ended up before the Supreme Court as the National Right to Work Legal Foundation union haters tried to argue that union shop provisions allowing the payment of either union dues or servicing fees was somehow a breach of their …
Category: Labor Organizing
Temps Taking Over the Workforce Creating Organizing Obstacles
New Orleans Taking a couple of days off at the end of the year one thing on my list along with mowing the yard in December, which makes living in New Orleans a joy, was an exercise probably of procrastination masked as productivity, to plow through the stack of magazines with pieces I wanted to read, …
Looking at Metropolitan Areas for an Understanding of Declining Union Strength
New Orleans More than a decade ago I spent a lot of time with Joel Rogers, longtime professor of law, sociology, and political science at the University of Wisconsin, analyzing the fact that cities and metro areas were still the last bastions of union strength, and that was where we needed to make our stand. Some …