Dan Graff

US labor historian, Dir of Higgins Labor Program at Notre Dame, co-convener of Just Wage Working Group, curator of Labor Song of the Month, feminist family man.

[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

Who is an essential worker on this unprecedented May Day? I hope our current expansive answer to that question outlasts the pandemic and results in lasting improvements in recognition, respect, and rights.

[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

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[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

@mkbshown @gbell65 @carleylanich @jordantsmith09 @MikeBerardino Thanks, Mary. If any of you want to follow up with a discussion of ways to enlist community support, please DM me or email me at [email protected]. I direct the Higgins Labor Program at Notre Dame.

[NLRB General Counsel @NLRBGC]

🧵During the first half of Fiscal Year 2022, union representation petitions filed at the NLRB have increased 57%—up to 1,174 from 748 during the first half of FY2021. At the same time, unfair labor practice charges have increased 14%—from 7,255 to 8,254. https://t.co/moIlkhVK71

[National Labor Relations Board Union @TheNLRBU]

At 280 representation-related petitions in March, the NLRB just had its busiest month for election activity since 2014. In that year, the agency had over 25% more staff than it does now.

Congress must fund the NLRB to ensure parties receive quick and effective resolutions.

[National Labor Relations Board Union @TheNLRBU]

In 1979, total employment at the NLRB peaked at about 2,900 full-time staff. That year, the private-sector workforce stood at 75 million employees.

Today, the NLRB has less than 1,300 full-time staff. The private-sector workforce now stands at 128 million.

[Higgins Labor @higginslabor]

February's Labor Café is this Friday (2/25). Co-sponsored by the Initiative on Race and Resilience and the Department of Africana Studies, join us to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth and engage in a conversation on Black labor in the COVID-19 economy. @dgraffnd

[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

@tedbarronND I believe you are right, based on Lizzie's outrage.

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

Starbucks says: "Don't listen to that union when they say you'll get good stuff. The fact is, we have the right to oppose good stuff, so you shouldn't expect good stuff. Instead, you should trust us -- the only ones who are standing between you and good stuff."

[Inequality.org @inequalityorg]

$26:

What the $7.25 U.S. minimum wage would be today if the rate reflected worker productivity increases since the 1960s.

So who's benefited from rising productivity? CEOs now make 351 times worker pay, up from 25 times in 1968

For more: https://t.co/QjtUVlWqmi

[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

@tedbarronND Huh?

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Crystal Mason, black woman in TX who voted on supervised release when didn't know ineligible & provisional ballot wasn’t even counted, gets 5 years in prison

Donald "Kirk" Hartle, white man in Nevada, forges dead wife’s signature to vote twice for Trump & gets 1 year probation

[John Gehring @gehringdc]

Catholic bishops are meeting in Baltimore, a city with some of the highest poverty rates in the nation. Unless I’ve missed it, there has been no discussion about what Pope Francis calls an “economy of exclusion and inequality” that “kills.” #USCCB21

[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

@UAW_Archivist @UAW @ReutherLibrary I’m very grateful for these regular reminders of social democratic imagination and innovation from the UAW’s past. May the spirit return … and fast!

[Dan Graff @dgraffnd]

American workers are fed up https://t.co/oKg5WpNFQc via @TheWeek

[NLRB General Counsel @NLRBGC]

🧵In 1956, the Supreme Court in NLRB v. Truitt Manufacturing upheld the NLRB’s ruling that an employer violates its duty to bargain in good faith when it claims it can't pay the wages a union asks for at the bargaining table but refuses to back it up with reasonable proof.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Huge double standard: GOP states enacting new voter suppression laws & extreme gerrymanders on party-line simple majority votes but it requires 60 vote supermajority in Senate to protect voting rights because of filibuster

[Higgins Labor @higginslabor]

Join NDVotes and our own Professor Dan Graff tomorrow at 5PM in the Geddes Hall Coffeehouse for free pizza and a discussion on labor in the US today!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Private child care providers across the U.S. are struggling to find people to hire, forcing many to reduce the number of kids they can look after.

“I can’t compete with sign-on bonuses and paying $20 an hour,” one operator said.
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