At Wednesday’s hearing, the sole Democratic witness, Lynn Rhinehart of the Economic Policy Institute, made note of another anti-labor bill sponsored by a Republican Education and the Workforce Committee member, Representative Rick Allen of Georgia. Under the bill, it would no longer constitute an illegal unfair labor practice for a business to reject a job applicant on the basis of that person’s being “an employee or paid agent” of a labor union. The goal is to combat something called “salting,” wherein a person gets himself hired so he can organize a worksite. This is, Rhinehart pointed out, “a solution in search of a problem,” given that hiring a single pro-union employee hardly guarantees that other employees will agree to join one. The bill’s true purpose, she said, was to “open the door to blatant anti-union discrimination that has been illegal since passage of the [National Labor Relations Act of 1935].”
New Republic
May 23, 2024
Unionizing provides workers with gains in pay, benefits, and working conditions, and non-benefit workers take advantage of it, as well, said Lynn Rhinehart, a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute.
Medill News Service
May 23, 2024
According to a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 45,000 student workers at private colleges and universities nationwide have unionized via election since 2022, reflecting a more pro-labor stance among the youngest generation of workers. “Under the National Labor Relations act, depending on who’s in office, there have been different board decisions at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) about whether graduate students, teaching assistants, [and other student workers] have the right to form unions,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at EPI and author of the report.
LA Public Press
May 20, 2024
..domestic service work to white families, according to the Economic Policy Institute. During the 1970s, computing work gained more…[Paywall].
Business Insider
May 20, 2024
To understand why, you must understand how tariffs work and what the Biden Administration is trying to accomplish with the new duties. To walk me through it, I spoke to Adam Hersh, Ph.D., a Senior Economist and China-U.S. relations expert at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank.
While no tariff package is perfect, Hersh suggests that the Biden Administration’s new approach is likely to strengthen the domestic auto industry and make it more competitive.
The only way it may fail is if U.S. consumers and automakers choose to turn away from the electric car revolution.
Inside EVs
May 20, 2024
It’s common for employees to feel singled out for punishment during union campaigns. Nearly 30% of all union elections held by the NLRB involve charges that workers were wrongfully fired, disciplined, or had their work terms changed unilaterally, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank.
Huffpost
May 20, 2024
Well … the GOP is running against Democrats, and certainly against Biden, but recently it also looks like they’re running against reality itself. Asking questions like “Are you better off than you were four years ago,” the GOP seems to be trying to convince voters that 4 years of absolute chaos and criminality, punctuated by a failed response to Covid that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans … never happened. We discuss this ridiculous strategy and more with guests Lynn Rhinehart of The Economic Policy Institute, and Lee McNamara of the Culinary Union Local 226.
The Rick Smith Show
May 20, 2024
Meanwhile, Republican leaders in U.S. Southern states have shown “how scared they are that workers organizing with UAW to improve jobs and wages,” as the Economic Policy Institute put it last month, after Govs. Kay Ivey of Alabama, Brian Kemp of Georgia, Tate Reeves of Mississippi, Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Bill Lee of Tennessee, and Greg Abbott of Texas issued a joint statement accusing the union of coming to their states to “threaten our jobs and the values we live by.”
Common Dreams
May 20, 2024
In New York, the typical monthly cost of child care for two children is $2,634, while the typical cost of housing is $2,451, according to a family budget calculator by the Economic Policy Institute, which estimates the costs of living around the country. In Greensboro, North Carolina, childcare for two children costs an average of $1,182 each month, while housing costs $1,039 monthly, according to the EPI’s calculator; and in even Cottle County, Texas, one of the cheapest housing markets in the country, the monthly price of child care averages to $968, while housing costs $826 monthly.
Fortune
May 20, 2024
A third economist, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Bill Hoagland, offered a more nuanced response hinging on whether Tai meant prices on goods subject to the tariff or prices overall.
“Those who have studied it carefully, e.g., Economic Policy Institute, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, [found] that tariffs have had a small, negligible impact on inflation,” he said.
Washington Examiner
May 20, 2024