Suchergebnisse

Deunionizing the private sector -- Taking aim at the 88% : remaking the non-union economy -- The destruction of public schooling -- Silencing labor's voice : the campaign to remove unions from politics

How many jobs are there? : labor demand and the limits of training policy -- How important is education? : rhetoric and reality in the skills mismatch debate -- Does job training work? : lessons from the Job Training Partnership Act -- Power and "empowerment" : the final frontier of job training -- The politics of job training : the legislative history of JTPA -- Job training after welfare reform : training for discipline -- Conclusion : job training as political diversion

The election procedures of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) fall dramatically short of American standards defining "free and fair" elections, and indeed embody practices that our government would reject in any other country. This article examines the ways in which the Employee Free Choice Act, mandating union recognition based on signed statements from a majority of employees, redresses some of the most undemocratic aspects of current NLRB practice. Finally, the article argue that the analogy between unionization and elections to public office is fundamentally misplaced. When the act of union formation is correctly understood, the logic of creating a union through signed statements is even clearer. Ultimately it is unionization itself—not the process through which employees choose to form a union—that creates lasting democratic practices within the workplace.

When Americans think about free trade and Mexico, we usually think of one thing: the giant sucking sound of U.S. jobs being lost to cheaper labor in the south. We lose, they gain. Our family-wage jobs become their $2 per hour step up from rural poverty; that's the shorthand summary of what the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) looks like from our side of the border. If that story was true at one point, however, it is no longer. Barely ten years since NAFTA was signed, many Mexicans find themselves in a position surprisingly similar to that of American workers: apparently too expensive for international investors, they're watching their jobs leave the country by the tens of thousands.