Currently, just seven states have laws that restrict or prohibit public sector collective bargaining, said Jennifer Sherer, director of the State Worker Power Initiative at the Economic Policy Institute. The last several years have seen a number of efforts in conservative states to roll back public employees’ ability to organize or bargain.
“Over the past decade, we have seen repeated politically motivated attacks on public sector employees in states where Republicans have majorities in the legislature,” she said. “This introduces all kinds of unfairness and unevenness into our labor markets and into our economy.”
Verite News
March 15, 2024
According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data, about 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.
Scripps news
March 15, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute found that significantly fewer restrictive voting laws have been passed in the 17 highest-union-density states than in the rest of the country. (Consider that 70 percent of low-union-density states passed at least one voter suppression law between 2011 and 2019.)
Nonprofit Quarterly
March 15, 2024
Lawmakers also heard from a panel that included advocates from the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, the president of One Fair Wage, and a policy expert from the Economic Policy Institute. They told lawmakers that these sub-minimum wage policies leave women, particularly women of color, at risk of sexual harassment.
Boston.com
March 15, 2024
A new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute showed that between January of 2023 and 2024, foreign-born workers drove a staggering 50 percent of U.S. labor market growth.
Newsweek
March 15, 2024
In a 2017 report , Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute argued that “low rates of unemployment and rapid wage growth would likely induce faster …[paywall].
Barron’s
March 15, 2024
The IWPR reported similar findings 10 years ago, and there has been little progress over the last three decades on narrowing the gender wage gap, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank.
MarketWatch
March 15, 2024
Pay for corporate leaders has been on the rise for decades, with CEOs in 2022 earning about 344 times more than the typical worker, up from a ratio of 21-to-1 in 1965, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CBS Moneywatch
March 15, 2024
Technology is great for union organizing. Social media, text messages, and videoconferencing allow workers to connect even when they are separated by location or shift, or when employers have prohibited them from discussing unions at work. But technology is also used for union busting. Anti-union employers monitor social media and messaging platforms to see who is talking about unions, and blast-text their employees to pressure them to reject unionization. On net, these forces probably roughly cancel out, meaning that technology will neither breathe new life into labor, nor hinder it.
Project Syndicate
March 15, 2024
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Pitchfork Economics
March 15, 2024