This Week’s Top Hits

Kate Bronfenbrenner, ILR director of labor and education research, said that going public with a salting campaign can be a way to deliver a message.

“Is there something in that set of criteria for the incentive that might have some influence on how or what the union officials who sit on the board actually end up … legislating (at OneTeam)?” asked Lee Adler, ILR visiting lecturer.

There’s a split in the labor movement over those kinds of deals,” said Gali Racabi, ILR assistant professor. On the one hand, Racabi said, some view the abandonment of the fight for full employee classification – and the benefits that come with it – as an unacceptable concession.

A study by Kate Bronfenbrenner, senior lecturer at ILR, finds that support for unions reached a 60-year high in 2022. Her data shows that 71% of workers surveyed supported unions, and 48% said they would join one if given the opportunity.

In this Q&A, Paul Ortiz, professor of labor history, contextualizes the current Los Angeles protests within the history of the labor movement and discusses how small businesses are responding to current immigration issues.

Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor, commented on the Consumer Price Index following layoffs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, saying “at a national level, the standard errors aren’t really affected very much, and the reliability is still good, but it’s really disaggregated at the granular level.”