Understanding what’s going on with unions, productivity and inequality in one cool chart! The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is an essential source for labor and union related data, analysis and commentary. It’s known for presenting a few fascinating charts, including a comparison below, of the union membership rate (the percentage…

This is my annual roundup of labor data on union membership, elections and strikes. How is the labor movement doing? At the beginning of each year a bunch of annual U.S. labor data is released and this is a good time to see what it tells us about how the…

I revisit the construction of Morningside Gardens and the labor issues reported in the co-op’s documents at the time. This project provides a fascinating window into labor relations in that era of peak union membership and power. — Introduction Since 2008, my spouse and I have lived in Morningside Gardens, a housing cooperative in New York City. Established in 1957, it is located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan and has six 21-story residential buildings with nearly 1,000 apartments.

In the four years since the union election rules changed, the election time period has been two weeks shorter, and the union win rate increased by more than 3%. In 2014, Obama’s NLRB adopted a number of rule changes that were intended to streamline how union elections were conducted. These…

Following a big increase last year, the number of large strikes in the U.S. continues to rise, with 15 in just the first half of 2019. Strikes are Back? In a widely recognized sign of a reviving labor movement, the number of large work stoppages in 2018 rose dramatically and…