Archive: Oct 2013 (Page 2)

• BREAKING NEWS: Obama Says All Striking Union Members Should Be Fired

  Posted on Oct 04, 2013 by LaborPains.org Team

  Okay, President Obama didn’t say exactly  that. But the principles he professed while delivering unprepared remarks today at a PR event on the government shutdown sure would seem to apply. In attempting to ridicule a House Republican for his offhanded comments regarding the current fiscal impasse, the president went from being the “ridiculer” to the “ridiculee” […]

• The Government Shutdown’s Silver Lining?

  Posted on Oct 02, 2013 by LaborPains.org Team

  We frequently joke that the best National Labor Relations Board would be no National Labor Relations Board at all. Well, due to the government shutdown, all but 11 out of the NLRB’s 1,611 employees have been furloughed and told to go home. Color us skeptical that this development will cause an end to labor relations. Since such […]