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The Empirical Case for Streamlining the NLRB Certification Process: The Role of Date and Unfair Labor Practice Occurrence.
The Empirical Case for Streamlining the NLRB Certification Process: The Role of Date and Unfair Labor Practice Occurrence.
This study by Cornell’s Kate Bronfenbrenner and Columbia’s Dorian Warren examines a proposal
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New Data: NLRB Process Fails to Ensure a Fair Vote
New Data: NLRB Process Fails to Ensure a Fair Vote
This new analysis of NLRB election data reveals how current NLRB procedures…
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Workers Independent News
Workers Independent News (WIN) gathers news by and about working people and creates programs and feature stories for commercial, public, community and college radio stations throughout the United States:
http://www.laborradio.org/
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Labor Politics & Legislation
Click here to read about the latest legislation and politics news from AFL-CIO.
General Information from the ILO on Child Labor
General Information from the ILO on Child Labor
Cyber School Bus 3Plus-U – An instructional program developed by the ILO to teach about child labor.
AFT Child Labor Project
AFT Child Labor Project –
For millions of children around the world, school is a luxury. Around the world, more than 200 million children work in unspeakable conditions in sweatshops, mines and factories. Instead of their ABC’s, these children are learning to weave carpets, haul bricks, sew garments, and manufacture toys they will never enjoy. The best way to stop child labor? Provide all children with free, accessible education. That’s the goal of the Child Labor Project, sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers.
Employee Free Choice Act & Labor Law History
The Employee Free Choice Act, supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would enable working people to bargain for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union…
