Robert Ovetz

Robert Ovetz is a senior lecturer in political science and the Master of Public Administration program at San Jose State University, labor scholar, and rank-and-file organizer for the California Facul

5 articles

Minneapolis police in confrontation with members of Teamsters Local 574 during the citywide 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike. Credit: Hennepin History Museum collections.

May/June 2025

Salting the Public Sector at UC Berkeley

An uptick in salting—which is when an experienced labor organizer takes a nonunion job in order to organize a

Robert Ovetz Jun 1, 2025

The D&S Debrief

Interview: AI and the Future of Work

Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor.

Robert Ovetz Nov 1, 2023

November/December 2023

AI and the Future of Work

Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor.

Robert Ovetz Nov 1, 2023

November/December 2022

Majority Checked

Why the Inflation Reduction Act won't benefit workers or save the planet.

Robert Ovetz Nov 1, 2022

September/October 2022

Taylor's Digital Stopwatch

What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against "algorithmic management."

Robert Ovetz Sep 1, 2022

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

Jobs, Factories, and Inequalities

Forsake Some, Fleece the Rest

Salting the Public Sector at UC Berkeley

Interview: AI and the Future of Work

AI and the Future of Work

Majority Checked

Taylor's Digital Stopwatch