Jared Bernstein’s recommended Labor Day Reading:

Some great articles worth a look on labor, unions, wages, and more.

EJ Dionne on an exemplary employer and the workers who went to bat for him.

Jon Cohn interviews one of the deepest thinkers I know on labor issues: Rich Yeselson.

An important look at the problem of “wage theft” in the NYT.

A strong NYT editorial with good ideas as to useful policies to address the deficits in labor’s bargaining power that I discuss here.