“The main legal consequence of a union being recognized is that the employer now has, what is called in labor law, a duty to bargain in good faith with the union to try to form a contract,” Slater said. But according to the Economic Policy Institute, employers can end up stalling the first union contract for years, and some unions never obtain one.
Marketplace
March 18, 2021
Nationwide, nearly 30% of retail workers would be directly affected by an increase to $15, and another 8.5% would be indirectly affected, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute in 2019. That was a year when the House of Representatives passed a bill that would have lifted the wage to that target, but with a Republican Senate and administration, the bill went nowhere.
Retail Dive
March 18, 2021
Less clear is whether ending desegregation would lead to better academic performance for students of any race. Tiece Ruffin, a professor of Africana studies and education at UNC Asheville, points to a study by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute indicating that Black children perform better on standardized tests when attending low-poverty, mostly white schools.
Mountain Xpress
March 18, 2021
State attorneys general across the U.S., according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, have stepped in to protect worker rights using their relatively wide range of powers, enforcement and otherwise. Between mid-2015 and the summer of 2020, the EPI said, AG offices in five states — Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — and the District of Columbia have created worker protection units. California, Massachusetts and New York also have similar enforcement arms.
Construction Dive
March 18, 2021
“The main legal consequence of a union being recognized is that the employer now has, what is called in labor law, a duty to bargain in good faith with the union to try to form a contract,” Slater said. But according to the Economic Policy Institute, employers can end up stalling the first union contract for years, and some unions never obtain one.
Marketplace
March 18, 2021
Nationwide, nearly 30% of retail workers would be directly affected by an increase to $15, and another 8.5% would be indirectly affected, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute in 2019. That was a year when the House of Representatives passed a bill that would have lifted the wage to that target, but with a Republican Senate and administration, the bill went nowhere.
Retail Dive
March 18, 2021
A minimum-wage hike would impact 32 million workers, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Around one in three Black workers and about one in four Latino workers would benefit from the raise; almost 60% of workers who would benefit are women, with women of color seeing a particular boost. Those are all groups who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic’s economic devastation.
Business Insider
March 17, 2021
I want to ask about wage theft. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Americans lose three times more in wage theft than they do in street robberies, bank robberies, gas station robberies, and convenience store robberies combined. This is disproportionately impacting low-wage workers, women, and workers of color who are more often than not the victims of wage theft.
C-SPAN
March 17, 2021
The job losses in education have been far worse than a decade ago during the financial crisis.
“It’s devastating,” Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute previously told Yahoo Finance. “Schools are struggling to open with the pandemic — it seems like they may need more resources, not fewer resources in these challenging times and to see their resources fall is particularly distressing.”
Yahoo Finance
March 17, 2021