Working Life

    Why would Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations continue to let a strikebreaker hold a top administrative job? That’s what appears to be happening. As far as I know, as of this morning, Assistant Provost Ron "Strikebreaker" Seeber still has his job. Strikebreaker Seeber, as we discussed the other day, let his […]

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A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]

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A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]

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Jack London wrote a famous essay about scabs–those would be the low-lifes who break a strike. Which is what I thought about when I found out yesterday that two people linked closely to the labor movement had crossed the pickets lines of the Writers Guild of America. Follow this story and you will be, hopefully, […]

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Jack London wrote a famous essay about scabs–those would be the low-lifes who break a strike. Which is what I thought about when I found out yesterday that two people linked closely to the labor movement had crossed the pickets lines of the Writers Guild of America. Follow this story and you will be, hopefully, […]

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   Over the past few months, I, and others, have pointed out that John Edwards is clearly the strongest advocate for organized labor. Up here in New Hampshire, where I’ve been for the past couple of days, I think that has become more clear. That became clear yesterday.   All the Democratic candidates, if asked, […]

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   Over the past few months, I, and others, have pointed out that John Edwards is clearly the strongest advocate for organized labor. Up here in New Hampshire, where I’ve been for the past couple of days, I think that has become more clear. That became clear yesterday.   All the Democratic candidates, if asked, […]

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    You’ve probably read already that a deal was struck between David Letterman and the Writers Guild of America so Letterman’s writers will be back at work on Wednesday. Letterman was able to cut a deal because he owns his production company and the rights to the show. The Writers Guild explains the deal in […]

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    You’ve probably read already that a deal was struck between David Letterman and the Writers Guild of America so Letterman’s writers will be back at work on Wednesday. Letterman was able to cut a deal because he owns his production company and the rights to the show. The Writers Guild explains the deal in […]

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John Edwards is making his closing argument with the voters of Iowa–and the media elites are having a hard time trying to understand why he is now drawing increasingly larger crowds. That comes through glaringly in today’s New York Times piece by the apparently perplexed Adam Nagourney.   In the piece, we learn that: Mr. […]

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