Labor Unions

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/25/2021
  

  The Obscure Case That Could Blow Up American Civil-Rights and Consumer-Protection Laws

  Law professor Eduardo Peñalver argues that the case of Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid which challenges a 1975 California law allowing labor organizers limited access to private agricultural land to speak to workers, could apply a radical version of the "takings" doctrine to block many kinds of labor, consumer, and civil rights law. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/29/2020
  

  The Life in "The Simpsons" Is No Longer Attainable

  In the 1990s, "The Simpsons" drew humor by putting bizarre dysfunction in the context of middle class suburban banality. Today it's the idea of homeownership paid for by a stable single income that seems outlandish.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7-5-18
  

  For 60 Years, This Powerful Conservative Group Has Worked to Crush Labor

  by Moshe Z. Marvit

  Now the Janus decision has helped push the National Right to Work Committee and its sister organizations closer to that goal.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  11-21-17
  

  The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  The workers created a union to defend their rights. The union died with the strikers, and the assassins went unpunished.

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• 4-1-16
  

  75 Years Ago Workers Successfully Defeated Henry Ford

  by Martin Halpern

  Why that’s especially worth remembering this year.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
  3-14-16
  

  The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

  In a new paper by Harvard researchers the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s are the reason unions are concentrated in a small number of states.