“Under the Trump administration, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has systematically rolled back workers’ rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining with their employers,” warns a new EPI report by Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, and Lynn Rhinehart. The authors detail the many ways the board has “elevated corporate interests above those of working people,” to the detriment of workers, their communities, and the economy. Among the board’s anti-worker conduct: acting on 10 out of 10 items on the wish list of the largest corporate lobby, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read the report »
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The unprecedented attack on workers’ rights by the agency charged with safeguarding them
EPI’s women economists with board member Teresa Ghilarducci
Left to right: Heidi Shierholz, Jhacova Williams, Emma García, Valerie Wilson, Monique Morrissey, Teresa Ghilarducci, EPI President Thea Lee, and Elise Gould
EPI launched the State of Working America podcast on Tuesday, October 15, to share the stories of working people and to explain the research behind EPI’s progressive policy agenda. Episode 1 features Valerie Wilson, director of EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE), talking about the central role of race in the American economy. In Episode 2, President Barack Obama’s former deputy labor secretary Chris Lu explores the decline of worker power in recent decades, changing workforce demographics, and Donald Trump’s destructive anti-worker agenda. Subscribe to the podcast »
In a special Halloween episode of NPR’s Planet Money, EPI’s Heidi Shierholz said she is spooked by news that “about half a million fewer jobs were added in 2018 and 2019 than were previously thought.” According to Shierholz, the big gap between the revised and the original estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests the economy is shifting in a negative direction. | Scary Stories from the Eek-conomy »
