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What It Takes to Form a Union - and Where to Begin
If you’re interested in forming a union, but unsure of what to expect, you’re not alone. Under the current American system for union recognition, unionizing is an arduous process and comes with some real challenges. It takes extensive ... Interest among the American workforce in unions has increased significantly in the past five years. Our own survey of more than 2,500 frontline U.S. workers finds that younger respondents (ages 30 and under) are especially open to unionization.
The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’
The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’ Published August 2, 2024 Overview Summary: Two major shifts are occurring in U.S. workers’ attitudes toward labor unions: the rise of workers who are interested in, but unsure about, unions and an emerging generation gap between younger and older workers. Key findings Americans’ approval of unions and willingness to vote for them at their workplaces have increased although union membership has continued to drop in recent years.
The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’
The Rise of the ‘Union Curious’ Published July 17, 2024 Two major shifts are occurring in U.S. workers’ attitudes toward labor unions: the rise of workers who are interested in, but unsure about, unions and an emerging generation gap between younger and older workers. Key findings Americans’ approval of unions and willingness to vote for them at their workplaces have increased although union membership has continued to drop in recent years.
The rise of the ‘union curious’: Support for unionization among America’s frontline workers
Abstract By some measures, support for labor unions among the U.S. public is at its highest level in over half a century. In this report, we investigate this trend. Looking at multiple surveys over nearly 50 years, we find that U.S. workers today are much less likely to oppose union representation in their workplaces.
Alien Abduction and Voter Impersonation in the 2012 U.S. General Election: Evidence from a Survey List Experiment
Abstract State legislatures around the United States have entertained—and passed—laws requiring voters to present various forms of state-issued identification in order to cast ballots. Proponents argue that such laws protect the integrity of the electoral process, sometimes claiming that fraudulent voting is widespread.
The Political Consequences of External Economic Shocks: Evidence from Poland
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the University of Zurich and the Center for European Studies and the William F. Vilas Trust Estate at UW‐Madison. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the SIOE, APSA, and EPSA meetings as well as colloquia at Berkeley, Bocconi, Claremont Graduate University, Colorado, Duke, Harvard, Konstanz, National Taiwan University, Ohio State, Penn, Stanford, UCLA, Wisconsin, and Zurich.
Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality
Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 20:409-432 (Volume publication date May 2017) First published online as a Review in Advance on March 9, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051215-023225 John S.
Maximum likelihood social science strategies analysis | Research methods in politics
This volume provides a practical introduction to the method of maximum likelihood as used in social science research. Ward and Ahlquist focus on applied computation in R and use real social science data from actual, published research. Unique among books at this level, it develops simulation-based tools for model evaluation and selection alongside statistical inference.
Analysis | Hungarians go to the polls today. But are voters enough to protect democracy?
How does a democracy collapse? We often envision military coups or corrupt politicians stuffing ballot boxes, sending their opponents to prison and declaring martial law. The story in Hungary shows a far more subtle erosion of democracy — one where politicians took advantage of transitory control of the legislature to rewrite the rules of the political game.
John R. Ahlquist - Beloit Daily News: Announcements
He was born November 9, 1944 in Rockford, IL, the son of John and Lorraine (Clark) Ahlquist. Jack was a 1965 graduate of Hononegah High School. He was a Vietnam veteran serving with the U.S. Army. He married Grace Gibson on November 13, 1965 in the Church by the Side of the Road, Rockton, IL. Jack was formerly the owner and operator of Kraftsman Auto Rebuilders in Miami, FL. He was later employed by Bryden Motors in the body shop and Benny & Sons in Rockford, IL.
SCOTUS looks at labor unions. Unions are worried. Here’s why.
On Monday the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a case widely watched by both conservative and labor activists. The case asks whether public sector workers (in this case a teacher) who choose not to join their local unions — but who are still protected by the union-negotiated contract, grievance machinery, and so on — can be obliged to pay union fees. These fees, like union dues, are often deducted directly from paychecks.
What can we learn about the electoral behavior of non-citizens from a survey designed to learn about citizens?
The following is a guest post from University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientists John Ahlquist and Scott Gehlbach. 7, 2, 0, 12, 4, 0, 7, 1, 17, 3,345. These are, as we write, the number of comments on 10 recent posts at the Monkey Cage. Which contribution hit Internet pay dirt?
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