The mood of the American worker in a word: jittery. This Labor Day, organized labor celebrates (if you can call it that) its 12 percent-of-the-workforce clout – 7 percent if you count only the private sector. Gone are the days when the unionized workforce was an effective checks-and-balance agent for stratospheric executive pay. Thirty years …
Around this time of year, it’s become traditional to question labor’s relevance, to take the pulse of unions and suggest that even if they once had a legitimate purpose they now are dinosaurs in a modern era. That’s understandable, in light of labor’s weak vital signs, but it completely misses the point, given what’s happening …
Of all of us currently in the throes of the Labor Day weekend, how many are thinking about what Labor Day really means? For many people, Labor Day signifies the end of summer and back-to-school time. It’s the first guaranteed three-day weekend since Memorial Day, and the first holiday since July 4. The more fashion-conscious …
On Labor Day, September 1, Workplace Fairness will launch the Take Back Labor Day blog project right here, on the new and improved Today’s Workplace blog. We hope you’ll support Take Back Labor Day by visiting the blog and sharing your opinions and insights with our bloggers and our readers through the comment function. Please …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
