“Not all management firms engage in the same kind of flagrant union busting practice that some large firms have developed,” Celine McNicholas, labor counsel at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a non-partisan economic policy think tank in Washington, DC, told Motherboard. “The good news is that the firms that do this work most aggressively tend to advertise and tend to be the firms you see attacking workers’ rights over and over again before the NLRB and in federal court.”
“Like with all matters, if an employer wants to work with its workers and respect their rights, it can easily do so. It is not impossible to identify legal counsel to assist in that effort,” McNicholas, the labor counsel at EPI, continued.
VICE
February 20, 2020
The use of forced arbitration more than doubled from the early 2000s through 2018, with over 60 million Americans bound by it, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute; about 65% of firms with 1,000 or more workers use it.
ThinkAdvisor
February 20, 2020
Workers have increasingly been speaking out on forced arbitration. Last year, a group of Google employees launched a social campaign to pressure their employer and other Silicon Valley companies to drop forced arbitration. The share of workers subjected to mandatory arbitration is now at least 55%, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Quartz
February 20, 2020
Companies use arbitration agreements to keep worker disputes out of court, a practice that has been bolstered by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Nearly 54% of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures, according to an Economic Policy Institute study. Among companies with 1,000 or more employees, 65% have mandatory arbitration policies.
Bloomberg Law
February 20, 2020
Mandatory Practice: Over half of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures, according to an Economic Policy Institute study. Workers’ attorneys have filed thousands of individual claims, at once, against companies who say they prefer arbitration, Erin Mulvaney reports.
Bloomberg Law
February 20, 2020
For employers, these decisions were largely a windfall. As the Economic Policy Institute’s Ross Eisenbrey explains, workers are less likely to prevail in arbitration than they are in litigation. And when workers to prevail in arbitration, they typically receive far less money than they would have if their case had been heard by a judge.
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VOX
February 20, 2020
His policy team, working with national political director Analilia Mejia, has instead consulted with environmental and immigration activist organizations such as the Sunrise Movement and the Center for Popular Democracy. It has also worked with labor-funded groups such as the Economic Policy Institute and the Democracy Collaborative, an international organization connected to leftist Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain, and new think tanks such as the People’s Policy Project, which was founded in 2017 and is funded by small-dollar donations. These groups, regarded as marginal players among Washington insiders, could gain new prominence should Sanders run the table in the election.
The Washington Post
February 20, 2020
Sure, more people were ready to speak up — but that’s also a sign of their mounting frustration, said Heidi Shierholz, policy director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “If even this very tight labor market can’t deliver strong wage growth to me, I’ve got to try something else,” said Shierholz, who noted the country’s growing divide between the rich and everyone else.
That divide, she said, has been worsened by companies that are hostile to organized labor pressing for better wages. Employers spend almost $340 million every year hiring “union avoidance advisers” according to Economic Policy Institute estimates.
MarketWatch
February 20, 2020
Data from the Economic Policy Institute points to further issues: the average Michigan family pays more $10,861 a year for care for their babies, which rivals the same cost as in-state college tuition. The median family pays up to 19% of their yearly income.
9&10 News
February 20, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978 while a typical worker’s compensation has only risen 12%.
Yahoo Finance
February 20, 2020