Raymond Hogler
Professor of Management, Colorado State University
Chapter Member: Colorado SSN
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About Raymond
Hogler has taught and researched labor and employment law for more than three decades. His publications focus on legal policies affecting American workers, particularly laws regulating collective action. Most recently he has written on the topic of right to work laws, which authorize states to prohibit union security agreements in collective bargaining agreements. In 2007, he taught at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Labor Law and did research on comparative employment systems.
Contributions
Why Marijuana Legalization is Inevitable – And Wise
Basic Facts Brief,
County Right-to-Work Laws as the Latest Tactic to Undercut American Labor Unions
Key Findings Brief,
No Jargon Podcast
In the News
Raymond Hogler quoted by Carole Levine, "Supreme Court Case Could Massively Impact Labor" Nonprofit Quarterly, March 5, 2018.
"How Noncompete Clauses Clash with U.S. Labor Laws," Raymond Hogler, The Conversation, August 23, 2017.
Interview on American workers' faith in President Trump Raymond Hogler, NewsTalk: The Pat Kenny Show, June 23, 2017.
"Yale Grad Students’ Hunger Strike Can’t Turn the Tide for Labor," Raymond Hogler, The Conversation, May 22, 2017.
"Donald Trump, Working-Class Hero, Trashes Labor Unions," Raymond Hogler, The Hill, December 14, 2016.
"Millions More Voters Legalizing Marijuana Won’t Clear Up Regulatory Haze," Raymond Hogler, The Conversation, October 27, 2016.
"How Labor’s Decline Opened Door to Billionaire Trump as ‘Savior’ of American Workers," Raymond Hogler, The Conversation, August 7, 2016.
Raymond Hogler quoted on the impact of strikes at Colorado State University by Nick Coltrain, "Specter of Faculty Strikes, Union Raised at CSU" Coloradoan, April 10, 2016.
"Happy Anniversary, Right-to-Work, but It's Time to Go," Raymond Hogler, The Hill, September 7, 2015.
Raymond Hogler quoted on marijuana labor demands by Michael Bodley, "Fledgling Marijuana Industry Pressing through Labor Pains" NBC News, August 18, 2015.
Raymond Hogler quoted on how labor defeated right-to-work in Colorado by Rand Wilson, "Unions Can’t Beat Right-to-Work Just by Calling It ‘Unfair’ - They Must Fight for Everyone" In These Times, March 18, 2015.
Raymond Hogler quoted on the history of right-to-work laws by David Moberg, "How Unions Can Grow Stronger in the Wake of Right To Work" In these Times, March 17, 2015.
Raymond Hogler quoted on right-to-work laws as the primary cause of union decline by Lydia DePillis, "Laws That Decimate Unions May be Inevitable. Here’s How Labor Can Survive." The Washington Post, March 3, 2015.
Guest to discuss how union decline has contributed to growing income inequality in the U.S. on Colorado Public Radio, Raymond Hogler, February 24, 2015.
Guest to discuss issues facing American unions on KGNU Labor Exchange, Raymond Hogler, February 4, 2013.
Raymond Hogler quoted on labor unions by Stephanie Simon, "Democrats’ Colorado Dilemmas" Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2008.
Raymond Hogler's research on right to work discussed by , "Right-to-Work Laws, Explained," Mother Jones, March 2012.
Publications
"Killing Unions with Culture: Institutions, Inequality, and the Effects of Labor’s Decline in the United States" (with ). Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal (2015).
Uses a state-level quantitative approach to analyze factors affecting union density. We find that trust is the most important determinant of membership and that trust is shaped by culture.
"The Persistent Effects of Slavery in the United States: Culture, Legal Policy, and the Decline of American Labor Unions" Labor and Employment Relations Association 2014 Research Volume (2015).
Enumerates slavery’s profound consequences for American culture. Those consequences continue to play a role in our views of collective action in the United States and impact union organizing efforts.
"The End of American Unions: The Right-to-Work Movement and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining" (Praeger, 2015).
Argues that the decline in union membership and bargaining power is linked to rising income inequality while tracing the evolution of labor law in America from the first labor-law case in 1806 through the passage of right-to-work legislation in Michigan and Indiana in 2012.
"The Historical Misconception of Right to Work Laws in the U.S.: Senator Robert Wagner, Legal Policy, and the Decline of American Unions" Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 23 (2005): 101-152.
Examines the legal policies regulating union security from the beginnings of federal labor law through the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935.
"Employment Relations in the United States: Law, Policy, and Practice" (Sage, 2004).
Surveys American employment relations from a historical perspective. It discusses civil rights laws, collective bargaining, and the role of unions in workplace organization.