Posted on Sep 10, 2009 by mtyler
Time was, time healed. Yet as time passes and the debate continues, the health care bill is finding no peace and rest. The level of fervor exhibited by the unions in the campaign to pass the health care legislation has led many to scrutinize the bill with unions in mind– carefully looking for any way […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Former LaborPains blogger-in-chief Bret Jacobson has a great OpEd on Forbes.com today suggesting that unions——get this–might learn a thing or two from business. Rather than blaming businesses, Jacobson suggest that unions take a look at how IBM adopted a client-first mentality, changed its company culture, and ultimately changed its business model.
Posted on Sep 09, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
“They stab it with their steely knives/ they just can’t kill the beast” The fate of EFCA, the national “card check” bill, remains unknown, but California dealt with its own demon of a “card check” bill last week. Last Tuesday, Governor Schwarzenegger received the news that his number one legislative priority, to overhaul California’s aging […]
Posted on Sep 08, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
With the future of the modern American labor movement on the line, labor unions just can’t seem to get it right–or get it together. The recent schism over the proposed health care bill has simply brought into focus the long standing enmity between the country’s preeminent labor leaders. Trumka, heir apparent to the AFL-CIO, says […]
Posted on Sep 04, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
As the health care bill debate continues to boil, union leaders are learning to take what they can get. Perhaps union leaders did not expect the fervor coming from hard working Americans worried about the “public option” in the proposed health care bill, but come it did. When the public option became the (rallying cry)/ […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
I realize that unions need to raise money for their failing ponzi-scheme pension funds. I realize that unions need new members to finance their aggressive political agendas—pursuing new sectors of the economy that have never been unionized. I understand that the massive union split a few years back made an untenable situation even “worse,” and […]
Posted on Sep 02, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The Hudson Institute released a report yesterday that compared union-negotiated pension plans to private pension plans– and found the union plans in a very bad situation. While the results are no surprise, they are still shocking. The report found that 35% of non-union plans, compared to 17% of union pension plans, are fully funded, among […]
Posted on Sep 01, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Labor unions want policy makers and the public to think that there are millions and millions of Americans out there who want to join unions but can’t. It is then the express duty of labor unions to bring these workers a chance to unionize. Where exactly are these millions of workers just wishing, hoping, and […]
