Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor. Two blocks from the Mississippi State Capitol in downtown Jackson, Robert Shaffer, head of the state AFL-CIO, sits on a couch in his office trying to explain how unions could become more powerful in Mississippi. “It’s just,” he says, then
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Dorothy LeConte is part of a movement of taxi drivers demanding that the city of New York relieve their financial anguish. NEW YORK CITY—Outside the gated entrance to City Hall, a dozen yellow taxi drivers huddle under the canopy of a tent to take shelter from the pelting rain. They sit alongside
Women, teachers and health care employees all suffered from the slow rebound last month. The labor market recovery that President Joe Biden has promised slowed again in September, with a weaker-than-expected 194,000 new jobs created. That suggests school reopenings and the end of generous federal jobless benefits haven’t brought enough
After last week’s NLRB memo made the unionization of college athletes a possibility, the CFBPA could become very important. Last week, a memo from the top lawyer of the Biden administration’s National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, asserted that certain college athletes should be legally considered employees. This decision took a wrecking ball
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