I'VE SEEN ENOUGH with roughly 50% of all possible votes in, UAW holds an insurmountable lead which would either require a massive tallying error or statistically improbable remaining vote share to flip. Vw workers voted #UnionYes to join @UAW.

📢@NinaRoussille and I are recruiting for a *Full-time Predoc RA* to work with us at @MIT! Looking for people who are curious & driven to work on big questions in labor economics: imperfect competition, institutions, inequality Deadline: Feb 25 https://t.co/lOtZPP9C5b

🚨🚨BREAKING: CalTech grad workers and post docs win big! CalTech Grad workers won 799-246 CalTech post doc workers won 240-50 Welcome to the UAW!! #StandUpUAW

🌟We're excited to introduce @berkeley_elena, who's conducting important research on natural disasters + wealth accumulation through our initiative with @energyathaas! Learn more about Elena's work:

There used to be a time (less than 10 years ago, not ages ago) when there was very little economic research on collective bargaining and unions. The tide has turned. A 🧵of fantastic job market papers of this year:

📣 CHARGES DROPPED 📣 After months of resistance, UC San Diego has agreed to drop all student misconduct charges and to pursue no further legal action against the three workers arrested in June for allegedly chalking protest slogans on campus.

Now that's the power of mass, labor action. The UC attempted to retaliate against our coworkers, we immediately began organizing to turn out hundreds, if not thousands, to actions to let them know it wouldn't stand -- and then we won!

“Since the economic shutdown of 2020, [workers] have realized the power that they have at the negotiating table." #StandUpUAW https://t.co/y8tXZabqsC

Our paper on the minimum wage is in @RevEconStudies! Local #MinimumWage hikes can decrease employment in competitive markets with low labor market concentration but increase employment in markets with high labor market concentration. The result is consistent with #monopsony.

BREAKING: The NLRB has ruled that if bosses commit unfair labor practices in the run-up to a union election then the election will be canceled and the Board will order the employer to immediately recognize and bargain with the union. Union-busting just got a lot harder.

We, the Postdocs, Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees, & Graduate Student Researchers at UC announce a multi-unit strike starting November 14. United with @sruuaw & @uaw2865 we will make @UofCalifornia stop their unlawful conduct & bargain in good faith.

BREAKING - 36,558 total votes were cast in UC Academic Workers’ Strike Authorization Votes, with 98% voting Yes to authorize a multi-unit strike if necessary. These are far and away the largest and most decisive strike authorization votes ever taken by Academic Workers in the US.

RIP Takeoff, the secret weapon of one of the great trios since the Magi. A wild staccato stylist, a technical rapper's rapper from the trap with half-a-million around his neck, spitting deceptively complex & colorful bars, always copied but never w/ the same lingo or charisma.

NEW: Over the past few months, I heard from several Mexican workers who are wondering: ‘Have I been trafficked?’ They say they were hired for engineering jobs in Georgia, but instead were asked to do grueling assembly-line labor once here. 🧵 https://t.co/qeJpNAI6nd

We are exactly one week away from the 2022 Research in Color Conference! We have a fantastic line-up of economists and political scientists ready to discuss some very interesting topics, as well as two economic powerhouses as keynotes! register here 👉 https://t.co/FVNODoLVnI

What a pleasure to give back to an organization that gave so much to me!! Please join us and get to know some of the amazing folks I've been fortunate enough to work with :)

GPA caps weed out so many talented Black and brown students out of economics. Students + student groups like @UME_Berkeley have been advocating for changes in the way students are admitted into economics majors for years. Now there's statistical evidence by economists!!

CONFIRMED: Lisa DeNell Cook to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System By a vote of 51-50. @VP Harris voted YEA.

Es oficial! this fall I'll be starting my PhD at @UCSanDiego - Rady School!! Extremely excited about this opportunity, can't wait to join the econ & strat group :)