When university administrators call the police as their first response to student protest, it’s Ronald Reagan’s playbook they’re working from.
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Denied the effective right to bargain with fast-food corporations, Fight for $15 has operated in an environment much like the Wild West faced by workers prior to the passage of the NLRA in 1935.
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A genuine insurrection, mostly nonviolent, unplanned, mass, emitting fumes of utopian exhilaration. Such was America in the spring of 1968.
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Congress must fix the National Labor Relations Act if workers are to have a meaningful right to collective bargaining in the United States. In the meantime, states can supplement federal law by creating sectoral councils.
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Fast-food workers have so far been left largely outside the protections of labor law, save for a few vertically integrated chains like Starbucks.
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New online: Why were Starbucks workers able to unionize under federal labor law, while those at Dunkin’ Donuts were not?
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The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.
Read @brian_callaci on lessons from Starbucks Workers United and Fight for $15.
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The dynamism of the 1968 Columbia University uprising was not obvious to everyone at the time. But we students saw it. We felt it in the flesh. We trembled.
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"challenge the power and wealth of the twenty-first-century robber barons ... their existence produces injustice, economic instability, environmental degradation, and authoritarianism"
"challenge the power and wealth of the twenty-first-century robber barons ... their existence produces injustice, economic instability, environmental degradation, and authoritarianism"
The growing global concentration of wealth has made basic data on household savings, the trade deficit, and overseas assets increasingly unreliable.
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Universities should not give law enforcement the license to use an expansive and problematic criminal statute to punish campus speech.
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