Unions and Industrial Relations

Keystone Research Center Economists Available to Comment on SCOTUS Janus Case Oral Arguments and Worker Actions

Type: Press Release

February 22, 2018 - 12:56pm

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MEDIA ADVISORY

Contact: Stephen Herzenberg, 717-805-2318, herzenberg@keystoneresearch.org

Keystone Research Center Economists Available to Comment on SCOTUS Janus Case Oral Arguments and Worker Actions
How Today’s Unions Help Working People: Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig our economy and politics

Type: Policy Watch

February 20, 2018 - 5:06pm

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Americans and Pennsylvanians have always joined together – when the nation was first formed and in local associations bound by place, faith, and/or ethnicity ever since – to solve problems and make changes that improve their lives and communities.[i]
Transparency Bills Could Help School Districts Avoid Outsourcing of Public Services That Lowers Quality and Raises Costs

Type: Briefing Paper

December 2, 2017 - 12:43pm

Pennsylvania’s public schools employ tens of thousands of support professionals – bus drivers, cafeteria workers, custodians, maintenance workers, secretaries, paraprofessionals, and others. Due to fiscal challenges that many local districts face, school administrators often look to achieve savings and flexibility by outsourcing the provision of public services by education support staff.
Business, Political, Labor Leaders Converge in Pittsburgh: “Let’s Build a High-Wage Manufacturing Sector”

Type: Press Release

October 30, 2017 - 9:59am

PITTSBURGH, PA – The Keystone Research Center (KRC), the leading Pennsylvania progressive think tank, this week released “
Keystone Research Center Response to Senate Passage of SB 166

Type: Press Release

February 9, 2017 - 10:21am

HARRISBURG – Following the Senate passage of SB 166 (ending automatic payroll deductions), Stephen Herzenberg, Executive Director of the Keystone Research Center, made the following statement:
State of Working PA: Lagging Wages for All Race, Ethnic, Gender Groups

Type: Press Release

September 2, 2016 - 8:39pm

HARRISBURG, PA – At a divisive moment in America, in the context of a campaign which has exploited electoral anger borne in part from economic difficulty, the Keystone Research Center today released the 21st edition of its report The State of Working Pennsylvania. The report finds that most groups in the state, whatever their race, ethnicity, gender, or education level, have experienced wage stagnation or decline in recent decades.
STATEMENT: Keystone Research Center on Announcement that UPMC Will Pay Workers At Least $15/Hour

Type: Press Release

March 31, 2016 - 12:59pm

Stephen Herzenberg, Executive Director of Keystone Research Center, made the following statement on the announcement that UPMC will pay its workers at least $15 per hour:
KRC Congratulates Allegheny General Hospital Service Workers on Becoming Newest Members of SEIU Healthcare PA

Type: Press Release

June 5, 2015 - 9:19pm

The Keystone Research Center issued the following statement on Friday, June 5, 2015:
In Pittsburgh's New Economy, Organized Labor Reorganizes

Type: Media Coverage

June 10, 2014 - 4:39pm

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New Unionism

Type: Issues

April 10, 2013 - 2:22pm

One of the central issues in America today is the role of unions in the economy and in our society. One line of thinking is that unions were important in the old “mass production” economy—as protection against autocratic factory supervision and an inhuman work pace—but are not in the new. The Keystone Research Center (KRC) has argued (in, for example, “New Unions for a New Economy,” published in 1998) that the view of unions as an anachronism stems from people confusing the idea of unions generally with the particular form unions took in U.S.

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