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Teke Wiggin

New York
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Sociology grad student at Northwestern studying authoritarianism. Former tech and real estate reporter.
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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

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By Margaret Poydock, Teke Wiggin, Celine McNicholas
| Economic Policy Institute
Download PDF Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly $1.7 billion a year on union avoidance consultants and law firms for this purpose, which has an undeniable impact on workers’ ability to organize and bargain collectively.
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Labor Isn’t a Special Interest. It Promotes the Common Good.

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By Katherine Copas, Teke Wiggin
| ZNetwork
Perhaps no one spends more time on Starbucks workers’ picket lines and helps turn away more Starbucks deliveries than Lenny Lamkin. The seventy-three-year-old retired government worker has been a force of nature during the strike by Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) at stores across Chicago.
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“General Interest” Group or “Special Interest” Group? Understanding Nonworker Support for Unions

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By Teke Wiggin, Katherine Copas
| Wiley Online Library
1 Introduction As the gap between the rich and poor reaches destabilizing levels and racial and gender inequality remains stubbornly persistent, scholars increasingly view the growth of unions as one potential solution to these problems. Research shows that unions compress wage inequality and working poverty (Brady et al. 2013; Western and Rosenfeld 2011) and offer increased protection to racial minorities and women (Jaumotte and Osorio Buitron 2015; Rosenfeld 2014; Torre 2023).
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