When do things get better? That is all in the eye of the beholder. The issue is: what and who defines "better"? For example, there is no doubt there are more hotel rooms open in the city. But, does that mean because all of a sudden the industry isn’t making money hand-over-fist that the […]
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Friday Mix: Hotel Greed, Stocks Mirage
Posted on 10 April 2009.
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Governor Paterson, Have You Lost Your Moral Compass?
Posted on 18 December 2008.
The obscenity continues in America. The economy is destroyed–short-term and long-term–by incompetents and greedy people. But, it’s regular people who had nothing to do with this disaster who take the hit. And now we have the governor of New York blessing the disaster by taking aim at workers and letting the rich of the […]
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Justice For All Or Just Us (With Updates)
Posted on 03 June 2008.
As you probably know, per the previous post, SEIU is arguing that the labor movement cannot be a movement that is just worrying about its members but has to press for "Justice For All". I don’t think it’s entirely fair to say that other unions don’t think they are improving the lives of other […]
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In The Minds of Employers
Posted on 11 January 2008.
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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In The Minds of Employers
Posted on 11 January 2008.
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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Are There Four Anti-Union Democratic Senators?
Posted on 19 April 2007.
Supporting the Employee Free Choice Act should be a no-brainer for every Democratic senator. So, we need to ask: why are four Democratic Senators not co-sponsoring the legislation (S1041)? Are they anti-union? As of today, every Democratic senator is on-board as a co-sponsor of the bill (as are the two independents, Bernie Sanders and Joe […]
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