I found this Times piece on the United Food and Commercial Workers' attempt to build a sort of quasi-union at Wal-Mart fascinating. And I wholeheartedly approve. It's almost impossible to unionize a Wal-Mart store. They employ the top union busters in the business and they...
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Yglesias takes exception to my support of the Huffington Post boycott. He is misguided on several points: 1. Yglesias seems to think that I am trying to take away his.
As some but by no means all progressives know, the Newspapers Guild and the National Writers Union have called a boycott against Huffington Post for refusing to pay its writers..
Shorter Glenn Harlan Reynolds: The non-violence of public employee unions is evidence that they lack commitment. And verbatim: In fact, it made them so formidable that they were able to put together unions solid enough to send the industries they depended on overseas, where labor...
Damn. And just when LGM was thinking about offering an unpaid internship: With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading.
Horrible stuff:The bountiful harvest of California strawberries, melons, grapes, peaches and nectarines overflows the nation's summer tables. But that luscious crop mostly emerges thanks to farm workers who labor in.
I strongly endorse Sheehan's remarks, especially with respect to the comparison with Upshaw: Don Fehr took on this task and did it very well for a quarter-century. He did it as his peers in the NFL, NBA, and NHL all lost major labor battles and...
Back in the spring of 2001, the grad students at the University of Washington went on strike to gain recognition of union affiliation. Watkins, Lemieux and I walked the line.
Tomorrow, I'll be mailing my vote to approve our faculty's new collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated over the course of about 14 months in 2007 and early 2008.In the.
Via Will Bunch, apparently Circuit City was begging some of its laid off employees to come back. Awwwww. As he concludes about the companay's strategy of firing its competent workers, "[s]ince then, I've pretty much done any electronics shopping at Best Buy -- and so...
Brad Plumer has the goods on what the Republican-majority NLRB has been up to and what's coming out with its term set to expire.Meanwhile, Kung-Fu Monkey takes on some of.