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An SOS Call for America’s Workers
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 Jan. 28, 2020 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | On one level, the new report “Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy”— released [last] Thursday and written by more than 70 professors, labor leaders, and activists—is an ambitious menu of recommendations for how to remake America’s labor laws. Over its 125 pages, the report calls for making it far easier for workers to unionize and do industrywide (sectoral) bargaining. To make workers less frightened to speak up, it calls for ending America’s traditional system of at-will employment and replacing it with a system in which workers can only be dismissed for just cause. But the Clean Slate effort is much more than a series of bold recommendations. It is a sounding of an alarm. In it, some of the nation’s leading labor experts and worker advocates are shouting to the public and politicians about the dismal state of worker power and worker voice in the world’s wealthiest nation… American Prospect
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