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An Overview of US Workers’ Current Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions

Published:2023-04-12 Issue:3 Volume:50 Page:335-350
ISSN:0730-8884
Container-title:Work and Occupations
language:en
Short-container-title:Work and Occupations

Author:

Kochan Thomas A.¹^ORCID,Fine Janice R.²,Bronfenbrenner Kate³,Naidu Suresh⁴,Barnes Jacob²,Diaz-Linhart Yaminette¹,Kallas John³,Kim Jeonghun³,Minster Arrow¹,Tong Di¹,Townsend Phela²,Twiss Danielle⁵

Affiliation:

1. MIT Sloan School of Management's Institute for Work and Employment Research, Cambridge, MA, USA

2. School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

3. Cornell University's ILR School, Ithaca, NY, USA

4. Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

5. New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA

Abstract

American workers are currently engaged in an upsurge in collective actions aimed at achieving a stronger voice and representation at work; this desire for increased voice at work is also evident in survey data. However, union organizing drives in the United States typically meet with strong employer resistance, and such resistance reduces the likelihood that the organizing effort will be successful. In addition to unions, a broad array of other efforts has been initiated to strengthen worker voice and representation. The authors discuss these efforts, including worker centers, and observe that there is no “one size fits all” approach to contemporary worker organizing.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Sociology and Political Science

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/07308884231168793

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