1. Haitian Government Hires U.S. Lobbying Firm
(Matching tags: usaid, hope ii, garment factories, unions, labor, worker rights, caracol)

... and principal of the firm, was the Deputy Undersecretary of Labor under President Clinton and later worked for law firm Sandler Travis and Rosenberg which counted the industry group the American Apparel ...

2. Visualizing State Union Numbers
(Matching tags: labor market, public sector, workers, unions, labor, private sector, states)

Last week, the Bureau of Labor statistics released its estimates for union members in the United States in 2012. CEPR published our own analysis of the numbers, including a breakdown of state union membership ...

3. State Union Membership, 2012
(Matching tags: workers, unions, public-sector workers, labor, private-sector workers)

On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in 2012. This post focuses on the union membership numbers by state. In addition to ...

4. Public-Sector Union Numbers, 2012
(Matching tags: public sector, workers, unions, labor, private sector)

The Bureau of Labor Statistics unionization estimates for 2012, released this morning, are generally bad news for labor. The overall unionization rate fell 0.5 percentage points. The rate was down 0.3 ...

5. Daily Headlines – October 16, 2012
(Matching tags: coup, unions, labor, unasur, paraguay, mexico, colombia, uribe)

Reforms to Mexico’s labor law have faced growing resistance, writes David Bacon for In These Times. The law, which Benedicto Martinez Orozco, president of the Authentic Labor Front (FAT), calls “a monstrous ...

6. Labor Day Lessons From Canada
(Matching tags: labor market, workers, unions, labor, canada)

My CEPR colleague, Kris Warner, has a new paper on what we can learn about labor law here in the United States from the experience of our neighbors in Canada. The whole paper is worth a ...

7. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park, Part II
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, new york times, jobs, minimum wage, labor)

... over Sae-A’s labor practices were consistently brought to the attention of officials, the project continued to go forward without a comprehensive review: Before the Haiti deal was sealed, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ...

8. Charles Murray, Trade Unionist
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, unions, copyrights, education, labor)

I've only read the prologue and first chapter of Charles Murray's new book on growing class inequality. (That's all that I can download for free on my e-reader—I'm looking forward to reading the rest when ...