Workers’ Boards: A Brief Overview
Authors Kate Andrias, David Madland, and Malkie Wall explain that by developing policies for workers’ boards, state and local policymakers can raise minimum wage rates and other benefits.
A How-To Guide for State and Local Workers’ Boards
Kate Andrias, David Madland, and Malkie Wall explain how state and local governments and advocates can use workers' board policies to raise wages and improve benefits.
Memo: Why Trump Is Increasingly Vulnerable on the Economy
A slowing economy bodes poorly for a president who sold out the workers for whom he promised to fight.
Public Sector Training Partnerships Build Power
Karla Walter explains how public sector training partnerships both raise standards for workers and taxpayers and strengthen unions.
American Ghent: Designing Programs to Strengthen Unions and Improve Government Services
David Madland and Malkie Wall explain how policymakers can expand on existing Ghent-like programs to strengthen unions and improve government services in the United States.
The Middle Class Continues to Struggle as Union Density Remains Low
Union membership rates are at record lows, and new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the share of income going to the middle class remains low as well.
President Trump’s Anti-Worker Agenda
President Trump promised to defend “forgotten workers,” but his administration has instead advanced an anti-worker agenda that favors corporate interests at the expense of working-class Americans.
Corporate Governance and Workers: Why Today’s Economy Fails Working Families—and What To Do About It
Andy Green, Christian E. Weller, and Malkie Wall explain how collective bargaining, competition, tax fairness, and corporate long-termism can help American capitalism shift back from Wall Street to Main Street.
Corruption Consultants: Conservative Special Interests and Corporations Hurt State Economies and Democratic Processes
Malkie Wall, Danielle Root, and Andrew Schwartz explain how special-interest groups have used states’ tradition as “laboratories of democracy” to implement damaging and regressive policies at the behest of corporate clients and wealthy donors.
How to Promote Sectoral Bargaining in the United States
Broader-based bargaining requires increasing union power, promoting contract extensions, and establishing wage boards.