Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. This article is more than 3 years old. The "Fight Starbucks' Union Busting" ...

Capitalism is a system that fulfils two fundamental desires — freedom and equality — for which people have historically fought for millions of years. Capitalism operates on two levels: political ...

Behind the sunny spin about the U.S. economy’s low unemployment rates, many older Americans are battling some grim realities. Take 67-year-old Tina Caston, who worked more than 20 years as an ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. New unions at Amazon and Starbucks have capped a surge in workers’ bargaining power during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet much of the ...

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Why can’t unions do “sectoral bargaining” now? In theory, they can — and have before. In 1980, for example, about a tenth of workers were covered by multi-employer agreements that set industry-wide ...

This article appears in the August 2022 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The outlook for the labor movement in America is at once bleak and hopeful. On one hand, the number of ...

Bob Bussel does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

INSKEEP: OK, some workers appears to have increased bargaining power. What workers are we talking about here? Mr. SUROWIECKI: Well, I think you're really talking about workers who are highly skilled, ...

Workers around the world suffered hardship during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. In the first year of the pandemic global working hours declined by 9%. In some countries unemployment shot up so ...

An estimated 2.5 million Asians every year migrate under work contracts to other countries in the region and beyond. Labour-sending countries have tended to compete with each other rather than ...