October 15, 2018

LERA eBulletin

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Get Involved ...

• Make a contribution to the LERA 2018 Annual Fund Drive
• Submit a Session (or paper) Proposal for the LERA 71st Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, June 13-16, 2019. 
• Registration is open for LERA @ASSA 2019, January 4-6, 2019.

In the News

Make a contribution to the LERA 2018 Annual Fund Drive. You have received a letter in the mail, but you can go online and make a contribution anytime to support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations. https://lera.memberclicks.net/contributions

Submit a session (or paper) proposal to the LERA Program Committee by November 15, 2018, details here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/71st-lera-call. The LERA 71st Annual Meeting “Ahead of the Curve: Challenges Posed by Technology and the New Work Force” will happen June 13-16, 2019 in Cleveland, OH.

Registration is open for [email protected] 2019, January 4-6, 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Register here: https://conf.aeaweb.org. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days. Visit our meeting page at https://lera.memberclicks.net/lera-assa-meeting-january for complete details.

Like our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/LERAssn/). This will help us reach others who may be interested in attending. Also, there is an album of pictures from the LERA 70th Annual Meeting in Baltimore...be sure to check it out! Here is the album link: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2239132006102994.1073741829.170857039597178&type=1&l=034c7596cc

More Reading, Viewing and Listening

• Here’s a Bloomberg op-ed “Amazon’s wage increase is small price to pay for its reputation.”
  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-02/amazon-pay-raise-is-a-small-price-to-pay-for-its-reputation
  
  And from Medium Daily Digest, “$15 an hour and a union.”
  https://medium.com/s/powertrip/15-isnt-enough-to-empower-amazon-s-workers-9b800472fce9
  
  
• From the Hamilton Project: “Charts: Labor’s share of economic output that workers receive has fallen to lowest levels in decades.”
  http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/the_share_of_economic_output_that_workers_receive_has_fallen
  
  
• Here’s a feature from Salon.com with economists weighing in on the when’s and why’s of the next recession.
  https://www.salon.com/2018/08/12/the-end-is-near-a-play-by-play-of-the-coming-economic-collapse/
  
  
• Read “How companies, large and small, pay their workers,” in charts in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Aug. 1, 2018. The two pivotal factors: company size (bigger is better) and the sector in which the company operates.
  https://www.wsj.com/graphics/how-companies-large-and-small-pay-their-workers/
  
  
• Read Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman’s New York Times op-ed, “Stop calling Trump a populist.”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/stop-calling-trump-a-populist.html