Rounding up interesting stories from around the Web, it’s Labor Linkage time!
- A new study from the Labor Project for Working Families (PDF) finds that unions help make a workplace more family-friendly by helping workers win access to benefits like family and medical leave, flexible work arrangements, and child-care benefits.
- Seven workers in Postville, Iowa who were caught up in the infamous 2008 Postville immigration raid — part of the Bush-era immigration enforcement strategy of mass arrests that swept up thousands of innocent workers across America — have written a play about the experience.
- Our brothers and sisters at SEIU have launched an online campaign to urge Congress to keep majority sign-up as part of the Employee Free Choice Act. Sign their petition at SEIU.org.
- The Wall Street Journal reports on another consequence of the ever-widening wealth gap between the rich and the rest of us: Social Security is getting shortchanged.
- … and the Economic Policy Institute has some depressing graphs about the still-dismal employment situation.