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1061725 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960211061725New Labor Forum XX(X)Dubal research-article2021 On the Contrary New Labor Forum 2022, Vol. 31(1) 16 –17 Veena Dubal Replies Copyright © 2021, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: to Larry Cohen sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960211061725 DOI: 10.1177/10957960211061725 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Veena Dubal Keywords sectoral bargaining, gig work, unorganized workers, collective bargaining, contingent workers, immigrant workers Trade union density (alongside economic necessary steps to get these kinds of legal equality and working conditions) has fallen changes—and the many others that U.S. work- across all Organization for Economic ers sorely need. Those (including me) who have Co-operation and Development (OECD) resisted anti-worker, anti-democratic “sectoral nations in the last two decades. Though private bargaining” attempts in the last two years— employer union density in the United States. attempts led by Uber and Lyft hand-in-hand has increased slightly in the last year, the num- with some unions and labor leaders—are not bers remain dismal—as they have for four “risk averse.” We want to see dramatic change. decades. The perennial question is “Why?” Our point of disagreement is what the first step Brother Larry Cohen writes that when he is is to achieve that change. It is both short-sighted asked
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Published: Jan 1, 2022
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