Bitter Sweets for Sale
In opposition to a bill in the California State Senate allowing public universities and colleges to consider race, gender, ethnicity […]
Amicus, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment, Sex Equality
Labor and Employment
Amicus, Labor and Employment, Sex Equality
New Wal-Mart Initiative Does Nothing to Address Harm Alleged in Dukes
Wal-Mart announced last Wednesday its plans to source a total of $20 billion dollars worth of products from women-owned businesses in the United States over the next five years. This ‘woman-friendly’ initiative comes just months after the Supreme Court’s June 2011 ruling in the nearly decade-long battle for class certification for nearly 1.5 million women currently and formerly employed by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart’s “women-friendly” initiative does nothing to address the concerns presented by the “women of Wal-Mart.”
Amicus, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights
Wisconsin Voters Rally Behind Labor in Off-Year Election
Just weeks after Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin pushed through his plan to cut off the collective bargaining rights of
Amicus, Labor and Employment
Conservative Groups File FOIA Requests for Professors' Emails
Steven Greenhouse in the New York Times reported on March 29 that the Mackinac Center had filed FOIA requests for the
Amicus, Human Rights, Labor and Employment
100th Anniversary: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The New York Times commemorates the centennial of the famous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This accumulation of blog posts considers:
Amicus, Labor and Employment
CEOs and social movements help defeat new AZ immigration bills
The Arizona Senate’s recent rejection of multiple immigration bills – designed, among other things, to challenge birthright citizenship for children of
Amicus, Labor and Employment, Voting and Elections Rights
Republicans Use Newfound Power to Limit Right to Vote
As usual when right-wing politicians want to block a strongly Democratic voting bloc from exercising their right to vote, Republicans in New Hampshire and elsewhere are trotting out the tired excuse of preventing fraud to support new bills that will curtail the ability of students, African-Americans, and other core Democratic groups from voting.
Amicus, Labor and Employment
Budgets Don't Have To Be Balanced On The Backs Of Workers
What started in Wisconsin is spreading to the rest of the country. Governors, especially Republican governors, are using state budget deficits to present state employees with a Hobson’s choice: diminish the bargaining power of unions of state employees or allow the state government to be insolvent. Solving deficits from the expenditure side puts the sacrifice on the backs of the poor and middle class. Raising taxes accomplishes the same goal without the same consequences.
Amicus, Labor and Employment
National Guard prepped to maintain labor discipline in Wisconsin
Recently elected governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, acknowledged preparing the Wisconsin National Guard to respond to the possibility of disorder
Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Guest Author, Labor and Employment
Article: Ricci v. DeStefano: Declaring Civil War within Title VII – By William Yeomans
It is the height of folly to make hard and fast predictions about the impact of freshly minted Supreme Court
Amicus, Guest Author, Labor and Employment
Article: Making Employment Civil Rights Real – by Stephen Churchill
When Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, it was heralded as a long-overdue measure to eradicate