Michigan: Largest Fast Food Strike Yet

Ned Resnikoff MSNBC
As many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday. The fast food strike in Detroit is the second major labor action to hit an American city’s fast food industry this week: On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 100 workers in St. Louis walked off the job at roughly 30 different restaurants. These rolling walkouts followed similar actions in New York, central Pennsylvania, and Chicago.

Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her findings have changed how unions think about organizing.

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Game Changer Policies: Solidarity Insurance and ‘Just Cause’ Job Protections

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez; Irene Tung and Paul K. Sonn Political Economy Research Institute
The Game Changers project offers bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans. Two new proposals presented this week are Solidarity Insurance and Just Cause Job Protections.

The Case for Tripling Union Membership

Heidi Shierholz, Celine McNicholas, Josh Bivens, Jennifer Sherer, Ben Zipperer, Margaret Polydock Economic Policy Institute
How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy

Monitor Amok!

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
The federal court–appointed official overseeing the UAW is taking sides in the union’s upcoming presidential election.

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Report Warns Attacks on Workers’ Rights Are Weakening Democracy

Democracy Without Borders Democracy Without Borders
The International Trade Union Confederation has released its annual report on global rights. This year the U.S. was placed on a new “watchlist” alongside 6 other countries where there found a measurable increase in worker rights' violations.
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