Recently added articles from Fordham Urban Law Journal:

Card check recognition: new house rules for union organizing?

Feb 01, 2008; Gely, Rafael ... I. INTRODUCTION A significant policy debate has been occurring regarding union organizing methods in the United States. This debate focuses on the appropriateness of granting union recognition based on majority support as demonstrated by union authorization card signatures, also ...

Labor organizing by executive order: Governor Spitzer and the unionization of home-based child day-care providers.

Feb 01, 2008; Gregory, David L. ... I. INTRODUCTION On May 8, 2007, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer issued Executive Order No. 12, opening the door for the unionization of 60,000 persons paid directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by state funds, to provide home-based day-care for the children of working ...

Binational guestworker unions: moving guestworkers into the house of labor.

Feb 01, 2008; Hill, Jennifer ... INTRODUCTION In the mid-1990s, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, head of the Mexican telephone workers' union, proposed the establishment of "an International Union for Migrant Workers." (1) This idea never came to fruition, but the recent success of three unions in organizing groups ...

Finding the synergy between law and organizing: experiences from the streets of Los Angeles.

Feb 01, 2008; Narro, Victor ... I. INTRODUCTION The topic of law and organizing has generated much scholarly debate over the past twenty years. (1) There exists a wide array of articles written by legal scholars and other academics on the relationship between public interest lawyers and organizers during the ...

Labor's wage war.

Feb 01, 2008; Ruckelshaus, Catherine K. ... INTRODUCTION Almost every growing sector in the bottom half of our economy--health care, child care, retail, building services, construction, and hospitality--is plagued by penurious employers who drag down working conditions for everyone. Common schemes emerge in jobs with ...