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Op-ed / Commentary Research ● Unionization Unions

Workers Are Beating Big Bosses, but Organized Labor Can’t Keep Up

April 27, 2022 // Worker-led unions are transformational, while organized labor has become transactional.

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Op-ed / Commentary ● Employee Rights Act ERA PRO Act

To Help Workers, Unions and Democrats Should Support Scott’s ERA

April 13, 2022 // The ERA’s policies are wildly popular. Recent polling shows that 70% of those polled – including 76% of individuals in union households – believe that workers should have the right to a secret ballot. Other major provisions – including the right to withhold dues from political spending, privacy protections, and the criminalization of union threats – poll at an average favorability of 70%.

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Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor PRO Act Unionization

Opinion: Amazon Employees Don’t Need a Union

March 25, 2022 // Tight labor markets empower workers more than any union. That’s why it’s unlikely that the 7,500 Amazon workers at the JFK8 plant in Staten Island, New York, who are voting today on whether to join the Amazon Labor Union, will choose to be organized. Voting at Amazon’s LDJ5 plant (also in Staten Island), which employs 1,500 workers, will take place next month.

Op-ed / Commentary ● Unions

The ‘most pro-union president’ ever has been a dud for workers

March 15, 2022 // President Biden repeatedly has promised to be “the most pro-union president in American history.” But there’s one key group of people standing in his way: The tens of millions of workers who want nothing to do with union membership.

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