Katherine Stone and Scott Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199693610
- eISBN:
- 9780191729744
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693610.003.0018
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law, Philosophy of Law
Activism by labor and community coalitions at the local level is redefining labor law in the United States. Despite a drastic decline in union density and power in the United States, labor and ...
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Activism by labor and community coalitions at the local level is redefining labor law in the United States. Despite a drastic decline in union density and power in the United States, labor and community alliances have emerged at the local level that seek to influence labor conditions outside of the traditional collective bargaining framework. Unions and their community allies in some cities have had success in securing living wages, job training, local hiring preferences, workplace safety protections, health insurance benefits, and even job security for local workers. These achievements have been built on a new legal foundation: local government law. Labor-community alliances have leveraged different facets of local government power — contracting, land use, and general regulatory power — to achieve labor objectives through local ordinances and negotiated community benefit agreements. This chapter describes some of the ways in which these new labor-community alliances have exercised power at the local level. It pays particular attention to Los Angeles where local labor activism has achieved a series of remarkable successes through the robust use of local governmental levers. The chapter then addresses the question of whether, and to what extent, local labor initiatives can provide an adequate substitute for, or enhancement of, labor power at the national level.Less
Activism by labor and community coalitions at the local level is redefining labor law in the United States. Despite a drastic decline in union density and power in the United States, labor and community alliances have emerged at the local level that seek to influence labor conditions outside of the traditional collective bargaining framework. Unions and their community allies in some cities have had success in securing living wages, job training, local hiring preferences, workplace safety protections, health insurance benefits, and even job security for local workers. These achievements have been built on a new legal foundation: local government law. Labor-community alliances have leveraged different facets of local government power — contracting, land use, and general regulatory power — to achieve labor objectives through local ordinances and negotiated community benefit agreements. This chapter describes some of the ways in which these new labor-community alliances have exercised power at the local level. It pays particular attention to Los Angeles where local labor activism has achieved a series of remarkable successes through the robust use of local governmental levers. The chapter then addresses the question of whether, and to what extent, local labor initiatives can provide an adequate substitute for, or enhancement of, labor power at the national level.
James M. Beeby
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604730012
- eISBN:
- 9781604733242
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604730012.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This chapter discusses the demise of the People’s Party between 1899 and 1901. Democrats in the state legislature sought to permanently defeat the Populist Party and end the opportunity for the ...
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This chapter discusses the demise of the People’s Party between 1899 and 1901. Democrats in the state legislature sought to permanently defeat the Populist Party and end the opportunity for the triumph of cooperation by overturning cooperationists’ election law and local government law. They also introduced a law to put before the voters of North Carolina a constitutional amendment redefining the right of suffrage.Less
This chapter discusses the demise of the People’s Party between 1899 and 1901. Democrats in the state legislature sought to permanently defeat the Populist Party and end the opportunity for the triumph of cooperation by overturning cooperationists’ election law and local government law. They also introduced a law to put before the voters of North Carolina a constitutional amendment redefining the right of suffrage.
Scott L. Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780262036986
- eISBN:
- 9780262343213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036986.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter analyses the policy campaign to change LA law to reform the port trucking industry by requiring clean fuel trucks operated by employee drivers.
This chapter analyses the policy campaign to change LA law to reform the port trucking industry by requiring clean fuel trucks operated by employee drivers.
Scott L. Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780262036986
- eISBN:
- 9780262343213
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036986.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter outlines the regulatory framework within which the ports operate, highlighting the relation between the ports as local government entities and federal labor and environmental regulatory ...
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This chapter outlines the regulatory framework within which the ports operate, highlighting the relation between the ports as local government entities and federal labor and environmental regulatory schemes.Less
This chapter outlines the regulatory framework within which the ports operate, highlighting the relation between the ports as local government entities and federal labor and environmental regulatory schemes.
Scott L. Cummings
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780262036986
- eISBN:
- 9780262343213
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036986.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This book is about the struggle over the future of work and the environment on the edge of the global economy. It traces the history of conflict in an industry that is not widely known, but sits at ...
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This book is about the struggle over the future of work and the environment on the edge of the global economy. It traces the history of conflict in an industry that is not widely known, but sits at the epicentre for the global supply chain: short-haul trucking responsible for moving the mass of imports from enormous cargo ships to warehouses and retailers around the country. The book’s specific focus is on the largest and most important campaign at the nation’s largest and most important port complex, which straddles the border of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Over nearly two decades, labor and environmental groups—bound together in a pivotal “blue-green” alliance—carried forward a monumental campaign to transform working conditions for drivers and environmental conditions for communities. At bottom, the book tells a story of the unceasing resolve of courageous people seeking to make lives better for some of the most marginalized members of society: immigrant truck drivers barely scrapping by as they deliver goods to be sold by some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world; residents of neighbourhoods whose poverty consigns them to inhale the noxious residue of global trade. How law serves as a tool in their struggle is the book’s central question.Less
This book is about the struggle over the future of work and the environment on the edge of the global economy. It traces the history of conflict in an industry that is not widely known, but sits at the epicentre for the global supply chain: short-haul trucking responsible for moving the mass of imports from enormous cargo ships to warehouses and retailers around the country. The book’s specific focus is on the largest and most important campaign at the nation’s largest and most important port complex, which straddles the border of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Over nearly two decades, labor and environmental groups—bound together in a pivotal “blue-green” alliance—carried forward a monumental campaign to transform working conditions for drivers and environmental conditions for communities. At bottom, the book tells a story of the unceasing resolve of courageous people seeking to make lives better for some of the most marginalized members of society: immigrant truck drivers barely scrapping by as they deliver goods to be sold by some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world; residents of neighbourhoods whose poverty consigns them to inhale the noxious residue of global trade. How law serves as a tool in their struggle is the book’s central question.
