New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960221118073
Catherine Liu
{"title":"Is Cross-Class Solidarity Possible in the Brave New World?","authors":"Catherine Liu","doi":"10.1177/10957960221118073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221118073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"100 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48311532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960221122652
{"title":"Our Bookshelf: Recent Publications by Members of New Labor Forum’s Editorial Board and Staff","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10957960221122652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221122652","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"103 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46961836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960221117376
{"title":"New Labor Forum Chronicles a Quarter Century in Labor","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/10957960221117376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221117376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"5 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48501516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/10957960221118074
Emma Teitelman
{"title":"Density Is Not Enough: Rebuilding Union Power","authors":"Emma Teitelman","doi":"10.1177/10957960221118074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221118074","url":null,"abstract":"Comparative Literature at Columbia University interested in the intersec-tions of language, translation, and space in African-American and African-diasporic literature and culture. His research examines how different art-ists, writers, and architects engage and deconstruct the infrastructure of race.","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"96 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41469130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/10957960221117829
John Logan
{"title":"High-Octane Organizing at Starbucks","authors":"John Logan","doi":"10.1177/10957960221117829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221117829","url":null,"abstract":"The first half of 2022 has been a remarkable period for Starbucks workers trying to form a union. After its first victories in Buffalo, New York in December 2021—at which Starbucks corporate management ran a blistering and unlawful anti-union effort—the union campaign has spread more quickly than even its most optimistic supporters could reasonably have expected. As of August 2, 2022, Starbucks Workers United (affiliated with Workers United–SEIU [Service Employees International Union]) has won 209 elections in thirty-three states (80 percent of elections conducted)—many by overwhelming margins—and has lost only 45 elections. In addition, workers in over 300 stores (out of almost 9,000 corporate-owned stores nationwide) have petitioned for National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections in thirty-five states, potentially covering 7,000 workers. With its rapid momentum, at least through June 2022, the inspirational campaign—led by intrepid young worker-organizers—has so far resisted the worst impact of Starbucks’ ferocious union-busting: the NLRB has found that Starbucks has unlawfully fired union activists, closed stores to deter unionization, spied on workers, threatened workers, and offered unlawful benefits to discourage unionization. Despite this, the campaign with its rank-and-file dynamism has offered a media-friendly public face— young, mostly female, racially diverse, with many who are LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer [questioning], intersex, asexual). Starbucks management has found it difficult to counter this image. With their leadership, Starbucks Workers United has developed a self-sustaining drive that could end up with the coffee behemoth largely unionized. From 0 to 150 in Six Months, Starting in Buffalo","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"36 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43510969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-08-20DOI: 10.1177/10957960221116829
Stanley Gacek
{"title":"Can the ILO Assist the U.S. Battle for Unionization?","authors":"Stanley Gacek","doi":"10.1177/10957960221116829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221116829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"52 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41529212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-08-20DOI: 10.1177/10957960221118076
J. Suarez
{"title":"Office Space: The Political Economy of Remote Work","authors":"J. Suarez","doi":"10.1177/10957960221118076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221118076","url":null,"abstract":"most mainstream accounts. For all the business press talk about the supposed office-turned-home worker revolution, what is new about office work is not at all unique to office work itself. The battles over remote work are important not because new technologies enable any broad-scale transformation of work as such, but rather because they are a symptomatic feature of a labor market more favorable for workers than anything workers have experienced during the past half century or so. Broader political economic trends are far more decisive than remote work technological adoption in changing office work and shaping its future.","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"16 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43640389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-08-20DOI: 10.1177/10957960221116835
Ellen Reese, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
{"title":"Teamsters Confront Amazon: An Early Assessment","authors":"Ellen Reese, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson","doi":"10.1177/10957960221116835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221116835","url":null,"abstract":"recognize that these efforts have only just begun and are part of the Teamsters’ broader multifaceted strategy, which also includes legal and national policy strate-gies, shifting the narrative about Amazon in the media, and efforts to organize Amazon workers in other countries, such as Canada. Nevertheless, the Teamsters’ efforts to engage their own rank-and-file members, non-union workers in warehousing and delivery, and community members, are particularly promising developments that could help to counter corporate dominance in general and the rising specter of Amazon in particular.","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"43 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44994007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New Labor ForumPub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1177/10957960221117828
Peter Olney, Randall K. Wilson
{"title":"Sectoral Bargaining: Labor’s Pathway to Power?","authors":"Peter Olney, Randall K. Wilson","doi":"10.1177/10957960221117828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221117828","url":null,"abstract":"contrac-tors. 2 Jennifer Abruzzo, whom Biden appointed as general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), stunned employers by issuing a memo deeming mandatory “cap-tive audience” meetings to be unlawful. Given the widespread use by employers of these meetings to dissuade workers from voting for union-ization, this posture holds great potential significance.To consider how this may play out, history provides some useful examples of the positive interaction between politics and policy and mass labor organizing. The 1934 West Coast dockers/maritime strike took place a year ahead of the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which provided a legal frame-work to enterprise-level or workplace-based bargaining. But the earlier passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) featured provisions giving workers the right to engage in concerted activity and bargain collectively over wages, hours, and conditions. 3 Although later invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1935, this law, with its sweeping industry regulations, was the product of social ferment and political will. Sensing that FDR had their back, passage of the NIRA gave courage and legitimacy to the 12,000 dockworkers who went on strike for eighty-four days on the West Coast. 4","PeriodicalId":37142,"journal":{"name":"New Labor Forum","volume":"31 1","pages":"28 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47603505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}