Carpenters Video, Pt 1
Posted on Nov 08, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
We’ve come across a couple interesting videos of demonstrations by Carpenters union officials and a few rowdy members. Watch this first video (and go here to see the whole thing):
Posted on Nov 08, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
We’ve come across a couple interesting videos of demonstrations by Carpenters union officials and a few rowdy members. Watch this first video (and go here to see the whole thing):
Posted on Nov 07, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Via The Union News blog comes this video with a different take on the Hollywood writers strike:
Posted on Oct 25, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Dave Weigel at Reason has this great ad up on Hit & Run (and we thank him for a kind head-nod on our own ads):
Posted on Jun 19, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
This week labor leaders are trying to get the Senate to vote on the “Employee Free Choice Act.” EFCA, frequent readers will remember, is the bill that would end secret ballot elections for employees deciding whether to join a union and impose a government arbitrator’s contract on employees and employers alike. At the Center for […]
Posted on by Bret Jacobson
The AFL-CIO played an exceptional and praiseworthy role in the fight against Soviet tyranny, which truly oppressed labor rights, most notably in the union’s active and often covert support of Poland’s Solidarity movement. How sad that a once positive force for voting rights and freedom of association in Poland has abandoned those principles at home. […]
Posted on Jun 18, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
This week will pretty much be all EFCA, all the time. The special interest bill to deprive employees of a secret ballot vote when they decide to unionize is rearing its ugly head in the Senate. John Fund at the Wall Street Journal‘s Opinion Journal is on the trail: Unions have a right to participate […]
Posted on Jun 11, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Looks like it’s the season for strikes: UFCW-represented employees of Kroger in Dallas have approved a strike vote UFCW-represented grocery workers in Southern California have until June 21 to reach a deal before another strike/lockout, according to employers SEIU will strike a Burbank hospital June 12
Posted on Jun 05, 2007 by Jon Berry
A Chicago Sun-Times editorial last week calls our attention to a new program being tested in Windy City schools: merit pay. Teachers in schools participating in the pilot will receive bonuses proportionate to how much their students improve over the course of the school year. If the program is done properly, merit pay tends to […]
