Over the past two years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards, weakening unions, and eroding workplace protections for both union and non-union workers.

In the forthcoming Economic Policy Institute report The Legislative Attack on American Wages and Labor Standards, 2011–2012, Gordon Lafer, EPI research associate and associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center, reviews these changes in labor policy and labor standards at the state level since 2010. In particular, he illuminates the agenda to undermine wages and labor standards being advanced for non-union Americans in order to understand how this fits with the far better-publicized assaults on the rights of unionized employees.

The full paper will be available on this page at 8:30 a.m. on October 31st, 2013.