3+ week, 5+ day ago   (558+ words) Megan McArdle thinks the American Association of University Professors is making a mistake. I believe engaging in politics is the only way to build power to defend the sector against the barrage of attacks from the Trump administration. The AAUP…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (1247+ words) The president of the major sociology association, Shelley Correll, had just taken the stage at the discipline’s big annual conference in New York City on Sunday when a few dozen sociologists began chanting “Free Palestine” and unfurled a banner. The…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (142+ words) Unions have a history of coming together when workers need them most. During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, labor unions sprang up in response to the harsh conditions of the industrial revolution. In the 1930s, a massive surge in…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (379+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing new safeguards for delivery workers in New York City — and the proposal would give City Hall more regulatory power over commerce giants like Amazon. “If Amazon is delivering your packages, they should follow the same…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (996+ words) Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, traveled to Alaska in March to meet local union leaders pushing to reinstate a pension system for state employees. Alaska had closed its public retirement program…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (127+ words) Hosts from QVC Group have voted to join SAG-AFTRA. TV hosts working across QVC, HSN and Omni Channel voted to become a part of SAG-AFTRA in a National Labor Relations Board vote tallied Thursday that saw 80% vote in favor of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (621+ words) Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving, and many more. Lots of people like gig work. It’s flexible; you…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1383+ words) Last winter, a lawyer representing the Teamsters union made a proposal to leaders at the Justice Department: After 35 years, the lawyer said, it was time for the government to stop monitoring the union. If approved by a federal judge, the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1382+ words) Last winter, a lawyer representing the Teamsters union made a proposal to leaders at the Justice Department: After 35 years, the lawyer said, it was time for the government to stop monitoring the union. If approved by a federal judge, the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1408+ words) What are public-sector unions for, exactly? What problem are they supposed to solve? That’s the question I found myself asking earlier this month, when the best-paid railroad workers in America went on strike for three days. To be clear, I…...