DS Wright with some valuable commentary on major union leaders wanting to retire Scabby the Rat because it doesn't fit their "value proposition." A sad and familiar refrain among the now fading trade unions – foregoing confrontation for illusory accommodation. There is perhaps no dumber...
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Not a good day for a labor person. Labor Department figures released today showed that 11.3% of the American workforce belongs to a labor union. That is the lowest number.
On January 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, granting federal employees the right to collective bargaining for the first time. Full text here. This began the.
Who says that right-to-work laws doesn't create new jobs? Look at Michigan for instance: Gov. Rick Snyder's administration is hiring an attorney to enforce the new right-to-work law who will be required to pay state bar association dues while enforcing a law making union dues...
Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a.
I thought this Post article on Michelle Rhee was going to be a total puff piece, but it at least presents some facts that show her claims are never backed.
Elias Isquith (and some commenters here) is skeptical that Jack Lew's anti-graduate student union history matters for his nomination for Secretary of Treasury. He bases it on two points. One, we don’t know enough about Lew’s actions while at the NYU to draw any definitive...
As someone dedicated to building bridges between the labor and environmental movements, this post from Good promoting the idea of online grocery stores makes me want to hold my head.
Coal mine baron and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine where 29 miners were killed in an explosion in 2010, shares his thoughts on.
Related to my dismissal of Obama's words about Hilda Solis yesterday (and here's Dave Jamieson with a good run-down of Solis' term as Secretary of Labor, Josh Eidelson has a piece up about soon-to-be Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew's union-busting past. Lew was COO...
A few labor items of note. 1. Hilda Solis is resigning as Secretary of Labor. Hard to blame her given the isolation of the Department of Labor during the Obama.
Michael Bloomberg for a) comparing teachers unions to the NRA and b) fabricating the idea that like the NRA, members of teachers unions don't agree with the leadership. I'm sure.