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Today’s News & Commentary—September 6, 2021

Today’s News & Commentary—September 6, 2021

Today is Labor Day in the United States.  And, as on every Labor Day, it is worth pausing to note the oddity—and the irony—of the United States celebrating the holiday on the first Monday in September, rather than the first day of May.  The notion of a holiday to celebrate labor came about in the […]

Today’s News & Commentary — August 31, 2021

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Today’s News & Commentary — August 31, 2021

According to a new working paper from Danny Blanchflower and Alex Bryson, union members are now statistically happier than non-union workers. This reverses a decades-long trend of union workers reporting less job satisfaction than other employees. This trend was usually justified through a variety of hypotheses, such as union members being more involved in workplace […]

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Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US ‘No Contracts, No Snacks’

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Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US ‘No Contracts, No Snacks’

By Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org. August 20, 2021 — Employees at Nabisco’s flagship plant in Chicago walked off the job Thursday, joining workers at three of the leading snack maker’s other U.S. plants who are demanding better working conditions, an end to foreign outsourcing, and the withdrawal of a company plan that would scrap the company’s […]

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