Smlr_net January 2020

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CPER: Union Membership Byte 2020
by SMLR Library 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Union Membership Byte 2020 (click “pdf” for article) Authors: Hayley Brown and Hye Jin Rho Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) *Date: * Jan 22, 2020 Summary: CEPR’s annual Union Membership Byte gives an in-depth analysis of union membership by sector, gender, race, ethnicity, age, education, nativity, industry, occupation, and by state (including the District of Columbia). *Link: * http://bit.ly/37qaIr3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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What happens when a robot can lay bricks?
by SMLR Library 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: What happens when a robot can lay bricks? Author: Bridget Bodnar <https://www.marketplace.org/author/bridget-bodnar/> and Kai Ryssdal <https://www.marketplace.org/author/kai-ryssdal/> Source: Marketplace *Date: *Jan 23, 2020 Summary: *The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Waldman’s new book, “SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build <https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/SAM/Jonathan-Waldman/9781501140594>” about one man’s attempt to do the nearly impossible.* Link: http://bit.ly/2vcgdLI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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EPI: Yes, David Brooks, there really is a class war
by SMLR Library 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Yes, David Brooks, there really is a class war Author: Josh Bivens <https://www.epi.org/people/josh-bivens/> Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) *Date: *Jan 22, 2020 *Summary:* *New York Times* columnist David Brooks, in an article sub-titled “No, Virginia, there is no class war,” recently trotted <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opinion/the-bernie-sanders-fallacy.html>out an old argument about why wage growth has been so sluggish for so many U.S. workers for so long: they’re just not very good workers. Specifically, he argues that “wages are still mostly determined by skills and productivity.” Ergo, if there is growing inequality *in wages*, it must be driven by inequality in *workers’ own productivity*. But the evidence he cites is totally unconvincing on this. *Link: * http://bit.ly/38DDPXY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Travis' Dads for Daughters Book
by SMLR Library 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Travis' Dads for Daughters Book <https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2020/01/travis-dads-for-da…> *Source:* Workplace Prof *Date:* Jan 5, 2020 Summary: Michelle Travis (University of San Francisco School of Law) has just published a new book, Dads For Daughters: How Fathers Can Give Their Daughters a Better, Brighter, Fairer Future <https://michelletravis.net/dads-for-daughters/>. *Link: * http://bit.ly/3aOItoe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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EPI: The EITC and minimum wage work together to reduce poverty and raiseincomes
by SMLR Library 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: The EITC and minimum wage work together to reduce poverty and raise incomes Authors: Jesse Rothstein <https://www.epi.org/people/jesse-rothstein/> and Ben Zipperer <https://www.epi.org/people/ben-zipperer/> Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) *Date: * Jan 22, 2020 Summary: After decades of rising income inequality and wage stagnation, the problem of inadequate wages for middle- and lower-income workers has only increased in urgency. *Link: * http://bit.ly/3aBKUKr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Bloomberg News: Unions Shed Some Members in 2019 But Numbers Remain Steady
by SMLR Library 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Unions Shed Some Members in 2019 But Numbers Remain Steady Author: Andrew Wallender Source: Bloomberg News *Date: *Jan 22, 2020 Summary: Union membership overall declined by about 100,000 people in 2019 with losses in both the public and private sector. About 7.1 million workers in the public sector belonged to unions last year. Around 7.5 million private sector workers were union members. Link: http://bit.ly/2REM4fD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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US-BLS: Union Members Summary
by SMLR Library 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Union Members Summary Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics *Date: *Jan 22, 2020 *Summary:* In 2019, the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions--the union membership rate--was 10.3 percent, down by 0.2 percentage point from 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.6 million in 2019, was little changed from 2018. In 1983, the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers. *Link: * http://bit.ly/2jxB8kd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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State Accepting Tax-Credit Applications from Companies Employing People with Disabilities
by SMLR Library 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: State Accepting Tax-Credit Applications from Companies Employing People with Disabilities *Author: *John Reitmeyer *Source:* NJ Spotlight *Date:* Jan 23, 2020 Summary: Program written into law last year as part of wage-increase initiative to ensure no workers with disabilities would lose jobs because of higher minimum wage *Link: * http://bit.ly/2GfYXrh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NJ Is Set to Change a Key Assumption About Public-Employee Pension Investments
by SMLR Library 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: NJ Is Set to Change a Key Assumption About Public-Employee Pension Investments Author: John Reitmeyer Source: NJ Spotlight *Date: * Jan 21, 2020 Summary: Planned lowering of assumed rate of return mirrors other states’ reactions to diminishing bond yields and modest economic growth rates *Link: * http://bit.ly/38kkVFE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NYT: Women’s Gains in the Work Force Conceal a Problem
by SMLR Library 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Women’s Gains in the Work Force Conceal a Problem Author: Claire Cain Miller Source: NY Times *Date: *Jan 21, 2020 Summary: Jobs traditionally viewed as female still don’t pay well, and still don’t appeal to men. Fixing one of these things would fix the other. Link: https://nyti.ms/2sJxLxV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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