Labor Bargaining Power
Topic Bargaining Power

Increasing evidence demonstrates the ways in which bargaining power shapes economic outcomes. One’s economic success is not merely defined by individual characteristics such as education. Equitable Growth’s work on unions and collective action in the United States examines the ways in which institutions intersect with economic trends and individual characteristics to ensure that workers can share in the gains of the economic growth to which they contribute.

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Factsheet: How strong unions can restore workers’ bargaining power

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Latino workers are often segregated into bad jobs, but a strong U.S. labor movement can boost job quality and U.S. economic growth

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Unions and the enforcement of labor rights: How organized labor protects U.S. workers against unfair and illegal employment practices

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Aligning U.S. labor law with worker preferences for labor representation

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Request for Proposals: How effective was the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession for workers?

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The state of the U.S. labor market 4 years after the start of the COVID-19 recession

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What recent research says about the benefits of labor strikes and growing worker power for broader U.S. economic growth

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Minimum wage effects and monopsony explanations

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Strong unions push firms to reduce riskier debt, lowering risks of unemployment for U.S. workers

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Resilience in Collective Bargaining

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Employee Activism: Mobilizing Workers as Corporate Stakeholders

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Janus and the Future of Public Sector Worker Power

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Changing Climate for Union Organizing: Non-Board campaigns 2016-2022

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: June 2023 Report Edition

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