OpEd
OpEd

Anna Lane Windham, “Making a living while black” (Baltimore Sun, 8/30/2014)

Though we’ve narrowed the racial divide since the days of segregation, the economic divide between whites and blacks has been remarkably persistent for.

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Eladio Bobadilla, “Industrial Commission losses will hurt workers”

While the North Carolina General Assembly’s more obvious attacks on our state’s working families are by now well-known (and felt), the legislature’s leaders.

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Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “A shameful setback for home care worker rights”

On Monday in a 5–4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Harris v. Quinn that home care workers paid through Medicaid do.

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Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein on Harris v. Quinn

Harris v. Quinn shows as little respect for history as it does for women’s work. It distorts the status of thousands of homecare.

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Labor History OpEd

Peter Rachleff, “Telling – and considering – ‘Untold Stories'”

April and May 2014 mark the fifteenth year that the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, with the support of labor and.

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Jennifer Klein, “Women’s fight for better pay is about more than just money”

Taking a cue from movements on the ground and several states, President Obama has taken up the cause of increasing the minimum wage..

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Lane Windham, “VW workers not first Southern auto workers to face choice on union”

All eyes are on Chattanooga, Tenn. as 1,500 Volkswagen workers file into voting booths this week to determine whether they will be represented.

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Lane Windham, “Why Alt-Labor Groups Are Making Employers Mighty Nervous”

A growing minimum wage movement indicates that despite low union membership statistics, labor’s future isn’t as dire as some in the business world.

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