According to a report published by the left-leaning think tank the Economic Policy Institute companies have been utilizing these safeguards more frequently. It found a 53% increase in the number of election petitions from October 2021 to September 2022. It also suggests nearly 60 million workers in the U.S. would like to join a union but have been unable to do so.
Cullman Times
April 5, 2024
Cites EPI’s minimum wage tracker.
KTVU-TV
April 5, 2024
At the national level, food and drink service workers make up a quarter of all workers suffering minimum wage violations, the largest share of any industry, according to an analysis of survey data by the Economic Policy Institute in 2017.
The Connecticut Mirror
April 5, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute looked at new unemployment claims in 2022-2023 and strike activity over that period, and found that if workers could access UI, it would amount to just 2% of statewide initial claims for benefits, and 0.3% of weekly claims past that first payment.
Hartford Business Journal
April 5, 2024
Supporters of the captive audience bans say they don’t restrict speech that endorses specific viewpoints as the Florida law did.
“The laws are focused on making sure individual workers have the right to opt out of such a meeting if it is not clearly related to their job duties and requirements,” said Jennifer Sherer, director of the state worker power initiative at the Economic Policy Institute. “It is pretty different from the Florida example.”
Bloomberg Law
April 5, 2024
“If we really had a free and fair way to form unions without fear of retaliation and reprisal,” she argues, “we would see tremendous growth.” While more recent data is hard to find, a 2017 survey from the Economic Policy Institute appears to back Shuler up on that point, with 48 percent of nonunion workers saying they’d vote to create a union in their workplace if they could.
Politico
April 5, 2024
That’s led to the largest effort in years to change the patchwork of state laws that regulate child labor, with major implications for the country’s youth and the labor market. At least 16 states have one or more bills to weaken their child labor laws and at least 13 are seeking to strengthen them, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute and other sources. Among these states there are 43 bill proposals.
The Washington Post
April 5, 2024
At the national level, food and drink service workers make up a quarter of all workers suffering minimum wage violations, the largest share of any industry, according to an analysis of survey data by the Economic Policy Institute in 2017.
The Connecticut Mirror
April 1, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute looked at new unemployment claims in 2022-2023 and strike activity over that period, and found that if workers could access UI, it would amount to just 2% of statewide initial claims for benefits, and 0.3% of weekly claims past that first payment.
Hartford Business Journal
April 1, 2024