New cross-partisan group pushing state labor policy -- Center for State Labor Innovation (I'm on advisory board) www.laborinnovation.org
Center for State Labor Innovation
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David Madland
@davidmadland.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress. Private account, opinions my own.
American labor law is broken. Sectoral strategies have long been recognized as powerful tools for raising labor standards. We're proud to release a Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law for states, a framework and user guide for legislators: clje.law.harvard.edu/model-state-...
Model State Sectoral Bargaining Law - Center for Labor and a Just Economy
Labor law in the United States is broken. The Center for Labor and a Just Economy is proud to release…
clje.law.harvard.edu
Poland and Hungary may show difficulty coming back from Trump jamestraub.substack.com/p/can-we-get...
Can We Get Our Democracy Back?
According to the odds, not all th way
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How to build a winning cross-class coalition: embrace a populism that decries a rigged economy where hard work fails to yield a stable middle-class life; and avoid reinforcing right's narrative that liberal college grads look down on Americans without college degrees www.uclawsf.edu/wp-content/u...
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New piece by Arin Dube and Suresh Naidu on sectoral minimum standards peri.umass.edu/wp-content/u...
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For those interested in the differences between CA, MA, and IL rideshare polices, this EPI table does a nice job.https://www.epi.org/publication/sectoral-bargaining-faq-collective-bargaining-sectoral-wage-and-standards-boards-and-worker-power/
State Futures -- a great org that brings together state policymakers -- is hiring for a director of policy static1.squarespace.com/static/67772...
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Depressing study arguing that unions’ traditional structural, associational, and social power has declined so that they are no longer the bulwark of democracy ucigcc.org/wp-content/u...
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Key quote:'He acted consistently and adroitly to use the full weight of the American state to build a financial system that served finance, then called the result freedom."
The American Prospect@prospect.org · last mo.Greenspan was not the libertarian who learned, too late, that markets need rules. He acted consistently and adroitly to use the full weight of the American state to build a financial system that served finance, then called the result freedom.
Congress does less economic policymaking when inequality rises -- highlighting how institutions favor the status quo according to a new Roosevelt report rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
AFL-CIO convention resolution: We will explore and fight for ... future legislation to create new opportunities to organize and bargain not just workplace by workplace but on an industrywide basis aflcio.org/resolutions/...
Resolution 2: We Are the Organized Power of Working People | AFL-CIO
Working people in the United States need and want unions. Building worker power through organizing is the way to win better lives.
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Interesting discussion from Canada about the push for sectoral bargaining in Manitoba. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Sectoral bargaining could be key to fixing Manitoba's—and Canada's—labour market | CCPA
Manitoba has an opportunity to address the low-wage, precarious work that has plagued Canadian workers for decades
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Union households have roughly two times ($241,000) the wealth of households without a union member www.americanprogress.org/article/unio...
Unions Build Wealth for All Americans
New CAP analysis of the Survey of Income and Program Participation highlights that households with a union member have roughly two times the wealth of households without a union member.
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More evidence the NLRA makes it too hard for workers to get a union contract. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chipotle’s US Union Dissolves Without Securing a Labor Contract
The Teamsters union has forfeited its rare union foothold at a Michigan Chipotle restaurant following more than three years without securing a contract, showing the steep challenges for US unions even...
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Here's what policies the research says increase union membership www.americanprogress.org/article/6-po...
6 Policies Proved To Increase Union Membership
Evidence shows that more workers join unions when policies support workplace organizing, access, sectoral bargaining, the Ghent system, and dues paying, and provide funding.
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NEW from @epi.org's @benzipperer.org and @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social: adjusting minimum wages for inflation is a necessary and modest step to protect affordability for low wage workers, including in California’s fast food industry. #FastFoodCouncil
Adjusting minimum wages for inflation is a necessary yet modest step toward protecting affordability for low-wage workers: The case of California’s Fast Food Council
In 2024, the California Fast Food Council—composed of worker, industry, and government representatives—instituted a $20 minimum wage for workers at large chain fast-food restaurants. The Council is al...
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The affordability debate is overlooking a key factor: higher wages. Union bargaining is the way to get there, @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and I argue for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mr2n8pas
How Union Bargaining Can Buoy Affordability
A true affordability agenda should raise wages. Unions and collective bargaining can help achieve that.
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Corruption is getting worse in the U.S. - latest Transparency International report shows www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/...
2025 Corruption Perceptions Index - Explore United States’s results
How does United States measure up in the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index?
transparency.org
www.americanprogress.org/article/work...
Working-Class Voters Shifted Slightly Toward Democrats in the 2025 Gubernatorial Elections
Working-class shifts in the 2025 gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey were led by nonwhite voters and suggest that economic issues can move some voters.
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Utah has repealed a law that barred public unions from negotiating on behalf of their members. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox approved the rollback of one of the most anti-union laws in the country after thousands of union members rallied outside his office for a week. apnews.com/article/utah...
Utah repeals ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters and police unions
Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.
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