Over the past two weeks, port truck drivers in Seattle have refused to work for many reasons, ranging from very low pay to terrible working conditions. The Sierra Club has issued a press release in support of the strikers, noting: “The Sierra Club stands in...
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There was a lot of interesting discussion around my angry post about the FAA reauthorization bill screwing over unions, especially the Communication Workers of America. If you didn't watch CWA.
Every election cycle, Democratic politicians come feasting at the union trough, using unions to raise money and coordinate get out the vote campaigns. Nobody on the Democratic side does these.
On February 6, 1919, the Seattle General Strike began. This event, the most successful general strike in American history, was also arguably the most serious working-class threat to industrial capitalism industrialists ever faced. The forces of order certainly felt this way. It also spurred on...
Kilgore: Yesterday, with Gov. Mitch Daniels’ signature, Indiana became the 23d state, and the very first (other than Indiana itself during a brief period ending in 1965) in the industrial.
A lot of interesting things under the radar right now: 1. It looks like Minnesota is going to have a right to work a person to death law on the.
The Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that poorly educated government workers make more than they would in the private sector. That's hardly surprising. What's equally unsurprising is that pro-business writers are saying that government workers make too much money. First up is my...
Tom Krazit at Paid Content has a piece up apologizing for Apple's exploitation of Chinese workers in the creation of its products. Krazit argues that Apple really can't do anything.
Item: When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven.
Megan McArdle delivers a typically hackish column on Obama's SOTU address. After noting her TV appearance with such bright bulbs as John Stossel and Gary Johnson, she proceeds to get after Obama for his nostalgic view of the economy. I'm not going to quote at...
The general tenor of the labor community is that Obama was typically tepid on labor issues in his State of the Union. He mentioned in passing a union workplace in.
In case you were questioning how central Republicans' anti-labor zealotry is to their program, they are choosing Indiana's Mitch Daniels to deliver the state of the union response. Daniels is.