Houston The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new rule has survived numerous delays, Congressional attacks offset by a threatened veto, and huge corporate pushback to finally find dry ground and take effect. We have not seen the corporate equivalent of the zombie apocalypse, so the country still stands. For all the hype the rule itself …
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Organized Labor Speaking Without One Voice
New Orleans It is one thing when we all know the king has no clothes on, but it’s a whole different problem when Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal and its op-ed pages broadcasts it far and wide. While we watch the Koch Brothers drive an ideological machinery pushing businesses to hew the line politically hard …
Harris v. Quinn Part 2: Creating a Permanent Precariat in Public Employment
New Orleans As terrible as the impact of the Supreme Court’s Harris v. Quinn decision is for unions and their capacity, the equally profound and perhaps more permanent implication may be in its attempt to create different sets of rights and entitlements for a permanent precariat in public sector employment. The 5-4 majority decision written …