[Antiracism] [EFCA] Action urged to shore up failing labor market

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 ACTION URGED TO SHORE UP FAILING LABOR MARKET

Leading economists call Employee Free Choice Act 

"critically important" for rebuilding economy

 

 

A joint <http://www.epi.org/page/-/pdf/200902_epi_ad.pdf>  statement by some
three dozen of the nation's leading economists was delivered to Washington
lawmakers (and made public as an ad in the Washington Post on Wednesday,
February 25).  It makes the economic case that restoring Americans' right to
join a union and to bargain for their fair share of the economic pie,
through passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, is essential to rebuilding
the economy. 

 

While the headlines have been dominated by U.S. financial market failure and
the economic free-fall it has set off, the massive and economically damaging
failure of the U.S. labor market has gone relatively unheralded. This labor
market failure has triggered an unprecedented income decline for the median
working-age household for the first seven years of this century, even in the
midst of economic growth, producing an unprecedented level of inequality, as
virtually all of the nation's economic growth went to a wealthy few.  

 

The economists' statement, which was spearheaded by Harvard economist
Richard Freeman, MIT's Frank Levy, and Lawrence Mishel, president of the
Economic Policy Institute, notes that even though millions of American
workers have said they want a union to represent them in the workplace, the
current system overseen by the National Labor Relations Board most often
thwarts that desire. It describes today's process as "drawn out and
acrimonious, with management campaigning fiercely to deter unionization,
sometimes to the extent of violating the labor law."

 

The statement's signers represent a broad cross-section of economic
expertise and include not only leading labor market experts, but also
macroeconomic and international trade economists, as well as several who are
Nobel Prize winners. The full text of their statement and brief bios of all
of the signers are below. 

 

A PDF <http://www.epi.org/page/-/pdf/200902_epi_ad.pdf>  of the statement
can be downloaded here <http://www.epi.org/page/-/pdf/200902_epi_ad.pdf> .

 

SCROLL DOWN FOR COMPLETE TEXT OF STATEMENT AND FULL LIST OF SIGNERS WITH
BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION.

 

TEXT OF ECONOMISTS' STATEMENT

Although its collapse has dominated recent media coverage, the financial
sector is not the only segment of the U.S. economy running into serious
trouble. The institutions that govern the labor market have also failed,
producing the unusual and unhealthy situation in which hourly compensation
for American workers has stagnated even as their productivity soared.

Indeed, from 2000 to 2007, the income of the median working-age household
fell by $2,000- an unprecedented decline. In that time, virtually all of the
nation's economic growth went to a small number of wealthy Americans. An
important reason for the shift from broadly-shared prosperity to growing
inequality is the erosion of workers' ability to form unions and bargain
collectively.

A natural response of workers unable to improve their economic situation is
to form unions to negotiate a fair share of the economy, and that desire is
borne out by recent surveys.  Millions of American workers - more than half
of non-managers - have said they want a union at their work place. Yet only
7.5% of private sector workers are now represented by a union. And in all of
2007, fewer than 60,000 workers won union status through
government-sanctioned elections. What explains this disconnect?

The problem is that the election process overseen by the National Labor
Relations Board has become drawn out and acrimonious, with management
campaigning fiercely to deter unionization, sometimes to the extent of
violating the labor law. Union sympathizers are routinely threatened or even
fired, and they have little effective recourse under the law. Even when
workers overcome this pressure and vote for a union, they are unable to
obtain contracts one-third of the time due to management resistance. 

To remedy this situation, the Congress is considering the Employee Free
Choice Act.  This act would accomplish three things: It would give workers
the choice of using majority sign-up-- a simple, established procedure in
which workers sign cards to indicate their support for a union - or staging
an NLRB election; it triples damages for employers who fire union supporters
or break other labor laws; and it creates a process to ensure that newly
unionized employees have a fair shot at obtaining a first contract by
calling for arbitration after 120 days of unsuccessful bargaining. 

The Employee Free Choice Act will better reflect worker desires than the
current "war over representation."   The Act will also lower the level of
acrimony and distrust that often accompanies union elections in our current
system.  

A rising tide lifts all boats only when labor and management bargain on
relatively equal terms. In recent decades, most bargaining power has resided
with management.  The current recession will further weaken the ability of
workers to bargain individually.   More than ever, workers will need to act
together. 

The Employee Free Choice Act is not a panacea, but it would restore some
balance to our labor markets.  As economists, we believe this is a
critically important step in rebuilding our economy and strengthening our
democracy by enhancing the voice of working people in the workplace.

 

 

ENDORSERS OF ECONOMISTS' STATEMENT (with bios)

Henry J. Aaron is Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Bruce and Virginia
MacLaury Chair, with the Brookings Institution.  A noted health care expert,
he focuses on the reform of health care financing; public systems such as
Medicare and Medicaid; Social Security; and tax and budget policy. Aaron is
currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Academy of Social
Insurance (since 1997) and was President, Association for Public Policy and
Management, in 1998-99. 

Katharine G. Abraham is Professor of Survey Methodology and Affiliate
Professor of Economics with the Joint Program for Survey Methodology at the
University of Maryland, and was Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics for two four-year terms, from 1993 through 2001. Her research
interests include the study of the labor market and economic measurement.
She is co-author of the book Job Security in America: Lessons from Germany,
co-editor of the book New Developments in the Labor Market: Toward a New
Institutional Paradigm, and contributor of numerous articles to professional
journals and edited collections. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association and has testified frequently before Congress.

Phillipe Aghion is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard
University. His main research work is on economic growth, where he is one of
the world's great experts on the so-called Schumpeterian paradigm of
economic growth, summarized in his joint book with Peter Howitt entitled
Endogenous Growth Theory. Aghion is also an expert on productivity growth
and the business cycle.   He has held positions at MIT, the French CNRS, the
University of Oxford, and University College London. In 2001 he received the
Yrjo Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association.  In 1999 he
received the Prix de la Revue Francaise d'Economie.

Eileen Appelbaum joined Rutgers University as Professor and Director of the
Center for Women and Work in March 2002. She was promoted to Professor II
July 2006. Formerly she was Research Director at the Economic Policy
Institute in Washington, D.C. and Professor of Economics at Temple
University. 

Kenneth J. Arrow is currently the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and
Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University.  He is
also a founding member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He won
the Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hicks> John Hicks in 1972.  He is
considered as one of the founders of modern neo-classical economic theory.
His impact on the economics profession has been tremendous. For more than
fifty years he has been one of the most listened-to of all practicing
economists. His most significant works are his contributions to social
choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem," and his work on
general equilibrium analysis. He has also provided foundational work in many
other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the
economics of information.

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an
assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. His blog,
<http://www.prospect.org/cs/blogs/beat_the_press> Beat the Press, features
commentary on economic reporting. He received his PhD in economics from the
University of Michigan.

Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior
Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He
has been Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel, Director General of GATT
(1991-93), Special Adviser to the United Nations on Globalization, and
External Adviser to the World Trade Organization. He has served on the
Expert Group appointed by the Director General of the WTO on the Future of
the WTO and the Advisory Committee to Secretary General Kofi Annan on the
NEPAD process in Africa, and was also a member of the Eminent Persons Group
under the chairmanship of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso on the future
of UNCTAD. Five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public
policy essays have been published by MIT press. 

Rebecca M. Blank is the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings
Institution. Prior to coming to Brookings, she was dean of the Gerald R.
Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and co-director
of the National Poverty Center. She served as a Member of the President's
Council of Economic Advisers, from 1997-1999.  

Joseph R. Blasi is a professor at Rutgers University's School of Management
and Labor Relations, where he studies employee stock ownership, broad-based
stock options, management stock ownership, employment involvement, and
corporate governance.  He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey, where he is a Mellon Foundation Fellow.

Alan S. Blinder has been on the Princeton faculty since 1971, taking time
off from January 1993 through January 1996 for service in the U.S.
government-first as a member of President Clinton's original Council of
Economic Advisers, and then as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System. In addition to his academic writings and his
best-selling introductory textbook, he has written many newspaper and
magazine columns and op-eds and, in recent years, has presented a monthly
television commentary on PBS's Nightly Business Report. Dr. Blinder is a
past president of the Eastern Economic Association, and past vice president
of the American Economic Association. 

William A. "Sandy" Darity, Jr., Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics and
adjunct faculty in Sociology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at
Chapel Hill. He also serves as Research Professor of Public Policy Studies,
African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University. He is
a Past President of the National Economic Association and the Southern
Economic Association. He also has been named Editor-in-Chief of Macmillan
Reference's new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social
Sciences.

Brad Delong is a professor of economics at the University of California at
Berkeley, chair of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies major, and
a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also
served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995. He worked on the Clinton
Administration's 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on
macroeconomic policy, and on the unsuccessful health care reform effort.

John DiNardo is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University
of Michigan. His research focuses on applied econometrics, labor economics,
health economics, political science and econometrics. Most recently his work
has focused on assessing the importance of unions using financial market
data, immigrant and native-born wage distributions, and the impact of
immigrant inflows on the native-born. His publications include four chapters
in J. Johnston and John DiNardo, Econometric Methods, Fourth Edition (1996).
Professor DiNardo previously was on the faculty at the University of
California, Irvine. 

Henry Farber is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and a Research
Associate of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University.
Farber is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists.
Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1991, Farber was Professor of
Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1977-91). He has
also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral
Sciences (1983-84, 1989-90) and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage
Foundation (2002-2003).  He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2006.

Robert Frank is H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of
Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. He is
a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times.
Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and
Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served
as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil
Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. 

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard
University. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the Labor and
Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor
Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research
Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for
Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of
Economics. Professor Freeman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and of Sigma Xi and Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. In 2006 he was awarded the Jacob Mincer Prize for
his contribution to labor economics; in 2007 he won the IZA Prize for labor
economics; in 2009 he was inducted as Fellow in the Employment and Labor
Relations Association.

James K. Galbraith is Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government/Business
Relations and Professor of Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs,
University of Texas at Austin. Jamie Galbraith is a Senior Scholar of the
Levy Economics Institute and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and
Security, a global professional network. He writes a column for Mother Jones
and occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas
Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation. Galbraith served in several
positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of
the Joint Economic Committee. He directs the University of Texas Inequality
Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School.

Robert J. Gordon is Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences and
Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He is one of the world's
leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and productivity growth. His
recent research includes work on the rise and fall of the New Economy, the
U.S. productivity growth revival, and the recent stalling of European
productivity growth. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER), a research fellow of the Centre for Economic
Policy Research in London, a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Econometric Society.

Heidi Hartmann is the President of the Washington-based Institute for
Women's Policy Research, a scientific research organization that she founded
in 1987 to meet the need for women-centered, policy-oriented research. She
is also a Research Professor at The George Washington University. She
lectures widely on women, economics, and public policy, frequently testifies
before the U.S. Congress, and is often cited as an authority in various
media outlets. 

Lawrence F. Katz is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard
University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic
Research.  His research focuses on issues in labor economics and the
economics of social problems. He is the author (with Claudia Goldin) of The
Race between Education and Technology (Harvard University Press, 2008), a
history of U.S. economic inequality and the roles of technological change
and of the pace of educational advance in affecting the wage structure.
Professor Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since
1991 and served as the Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor for
1993 and 1994.  He has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists. 

Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade
and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International
Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research. He served as a member of the President's Council of Economic
Advisers from 1998 to 2000. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the
Brookings Institution. His research focuses on trade policy. Lawrence has
served on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the
Overseas Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United
States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.

David S. Lee is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton
University, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
and an associate editor of Review of Economics and Statistics, American
Economic Journal and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is also
the foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies. Lee has received the
John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment
Relations Association in 2007 and the Albert Rees Prize from Princeton
University in 2005

Frank Levy joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's faculty in
1992, and previously taught for ten years each at the University of
California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland at College Park. He
has also been a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute. For the
last 10 years, his research has focused on the ways that computer technology
and offshoring are reshaping opportunities in the labor market. He has also
done research on U.S. income inequality and living standards and the
economics of education.

Lisa M. Lynch is Dean and Professor of Economics at the Heller School for
Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. From 1995-1997 she was
the Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and she has been a
faculty member at Tufts University, MIT, The Ohio State University, and the
University of Bristol. She is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of
the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, member of the Governor's Council of
Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a member of the
executive board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. She is
also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the
Economic Policy Institute, and IZA in Bonn, Germany. 

Ray Marshall has served in two presidential administrations. He was
President Carter's Secretary of Labor and worked for President Clinton as a
member of both the National Skills Standard Board and the Advisory
Commission on Labor Development. He has taught at the LBJ School of Public
Affairs and served as President for the International Labor Rights Fund. 

Lawrence Mishel became president of the Economic Policy Institute in 2002,
having joined the institute as its first director of research in 1987.  As
EPI's research director, and then as vice president and now president, he
has played a significant role in building EPI's research capabilities and
reputation. He is principal author of a major research volume, The State of
Working America, published every even-numbered year since 1988, which
provides a comprehensive overview of the U.S. labor market and living
standards. 

Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions
for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial
markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the U.S. He
has worked with the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations
Economic Commission on Africa, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S.
Congress and as a member of the Capital Formation Subcouncil of the U.S.
Competiveness Policy Council. 

William M. Rodgers, III, is Professor and chief economist at the Heldrich
Center. In spring 2006, he joined the graduate faculty at Rutgers
University's School of Management and Labor Relations. He is also a senior
research affiliate of the National Poverty Center, University of Michigan.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, he served as chief economist at the U.S.
Department of Labor from 2000-2001. He was also the Frances L. and Edwin L.
Cummings Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. Most
recently, he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Dani Rodrik is professor of international political economy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and teaches in the
School's MPA/ID Program. He has published widely in the areas of
international economics, economic development, and political economy. He is
affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for
Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Peterson
Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations. He
was awarded the inaugural Albert O. Hirschman Prize of the Social Science
Research Council in 2007. He has also received the Leontief Award for
Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, and an honorary doctorate from
the University of Antwerp. 

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor
of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at
Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the
United Nations Millennium Project and Special Advisor to U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the
internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger
by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium
Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global
poverty.

Robert Solow is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He was awarded the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for
contributing to what is still the standard method of analyzing the mechanics
of economic growth, and for exhibiting the importance of research and
technological innovation in improving economic productivity. In 1961, he
received the John Bates Clark Award, given to the best economists under age
40. In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. Mr. Solow also
served on the staff of President John F. Kennedy's Council of Economic
Advisors and was president of the American Economic Association in 1979. He
published numerous articles in the most salient journals of economics as
well as several books. Since 2000, Solow has been a Foundation Fellow at the
Russell Sage Foundation where his current focus is a comparative study of
low-wage work in the U.S. and Europe. 

William Spriggs is Chair of the Department and Professor of Economics at
Howard University in Washington, D.C.  Spriggs was a senior fellow at the
Economic Policy Institute in 2004 and Executive Director of the National
Urban League's Institute for Opportunity and Equality. During the Clinton
Administration he worked in various agencies: he led the staff of the
National Commission for Employment Policy, and worked at the Department of
Commerce and at the Small Business Administration. He has served as a senior
economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. He is a
past-President of the National Economic Association-the professional
organization of Black economists. He is a senior fellow with the Community
Service Society of New York, and the Chair of the Healthcare Trust for UAW
Retirees of the Ford Motor Company.

Peter Temin is a widely cited economist and economic historian, currently
Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and former head of the Economics Department. Beginning in the
1960s and early 1970s he published on American economic history in the 19th
century, including The Jacksonian Economy and Casual Factors in American
Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century, as well as Reckoning with
Slavery, which was an examination of the slave economy and its effects. 

Mark Thoma is a member of the Economics Department at the University of
Oregon. He joined the UO faculty in 1987 and served as head of the Economics
Department for five years. His research examines the effects that changes in
monetary policy have on inflation, output, unemployment, interest rates and
other macroeconomic variables with a focus on asymmetries in the response of
these variables to policy changes, and on changes in the relationship
between policy and the economy over time. He has also conducted research in
other areas such as the relationship between the political party in power,
and macroeconomic outcomes and using macroeconomic tools to predict
transportation flows. 

Lester C. Thurow has been a professor of management and economics at MIT for
more than 40 years. He was dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from
1987 until 1993. He taught at Harvard from 1966 to 1968 after a term as a
staff economist on President Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers.
He is the author of numerous bestsellers on economic topics. He has served
on the Editorial Board of the New York Times, as a contributing editor for
Newsweek, and as a member of Time magazine's Board of Economists. He is a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as vice
president of the American Economics Association in 1993.

Laura Tyson is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at
the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She is a
member of President Barack Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB)
and a Senior Adviser at the Center for American Progress. She was previously
Dean of the London Business School (January 2002 - December 2006) and Dean
of the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
(July 1998 - December 2001). In 1995 - 1996 she was National Economic
Adviser to the President and Chairman of the National Economic Council. From
1993 to 1995 she was the Chairman of the White House Council of Economic
Advisers. she serves on the boards of many organizations, including New
America Foundation and The Brookings Institution. 

Paula Voos is director of credit programs and professor at Rutgers
University's School of Labor and Employment Relations.  Dr. Voos conducts
research regarding the public policy implications of changing labor markets
and collective bargaining arrangements. She edited Contemporary Collective
Bargaining: In the Private Sector, IRRA, 1994, and Unions and Economic
Competitiveness, M.E. Sharpe, 1992 (with Lawrence Mishel). She has also
published numerous scholarly studies of labor law, employee involvement, and
the economics of collective bargaining. She is past President of the
Industrial Relations Research Association.

David Weil is a Research Fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local
Government and Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University School
of Management. He is also co-director with Archon Fung and Mary Graham (both
of the Taubman Center) with the Transparency Policy Project at the Taubman
Center, which examines the use of information disclosure as a regulatory
tool.  Weil's research spans the areas of labor market policy, industrial
and labor relations, and regulatory policy. He has served as an advisor to
the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, and other government agencies, and as an advisor to labor
unions and numerous labor/management initiatives. 

Edward Wolff is a professor of economics at New York University, a Senior
Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute (since 1995) and managing
editor of the Review of Income and Wealth. He is the author of Top Heavy:
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About
It, as well as many other books and articles on economic and tax policy.
Wolff's areas of research interest are the distribution of income and
wealth, productivity growth, and input-output analysis.

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