American Airlines Enters Bankruptcy
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Megan McArdle, on my American Airlines is entering bankruptcy.
But airlines do have another problem that’s special to them: their unions, which are both powerful, and plentiful.
Whatever you think about the United Autoworkers, at least there’s only one of them. The union doesn’t want to kill the company any …
In Detroit, Two Wage Levels Are the New Way of Work
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Interesting. Companies that have the freedom to set their own pay and benefit scales are able to create more new jobs than they would otherwise be able to. That’s certainly unexpected.
They are a cornerstone of Chrysler’s unlikely comeback: 900 employees turning out a Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicle every 48 seconds of …
District swings from deficit to surplus
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As changes to collective bargaining powers for public workers take effect today, the Kaukauna Area School District is poised to swing from a projected $400,000 budget shortfall next year to a $1.5 million surplus due to health care and retirement savings.
“These impacts will allow the district to hire additional …
Silly Unions, Act 10 Doesn’t Violate Civil Rights
After Governor Walker’s budget repair bill (AB-10) was re-instated by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, our unions immediately ran off to Federal court to claim civil rights violations.
At the time, I thought that their case was exceedingly weak and more in the vein of a stupid Hail Mary attempt than a serious effort at practicing law. …
The White House vs. Boeing
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Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) defends right to work states and argues that they’re good for American workers.
How the Budget Repair Bill Passed
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Minority Leader Miller made it quite clear, in a letter to Majority Leader Fitzgerald, that the Democrats had no intention of returning until and unless the collective bargaining provisions were stripped from the bill.
Senator Taylor requested an absentee ballot for the April 5 spring election.
Republican senators were convinced that the Democrat 14 weren’t interested in …
Badgering the Witless
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Iowahawk returns to the subject of whether or not Wisconsin’s unionized school system trumps the non-unionized nightmare that is the Texas public school system.
Spoiler: it doesn’t. Further spoiler: Wisconsin is not doing well, at all, in educating minority students.
The Unions Didn’t Agree to Anything
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Wisconsin public unions have been saying for weeks now that they had agreed to Governor Walker’s benefit cuts and that the Governor should leave their collective bargaining “rights” alone.
Well, they’ve been busy signing new 2-year contracts that either don’t include the cuts or (in some cases) actually have pay and benefit increases. Guess they haven’t …
Is a Texas Education That Bad?
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Iowahawk steps out of character for a moment to set Paul Krugman straight. Krugman has been claiming that Texas, without collective bargaining, has an education system that ranks far, far below the education system of Wisconsin, which does have collective bargaining.
It turns out that, once you control for the ethnicity of the overall population, Texas …
Union Power, By the Numbers
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A look at the top 10 political donors.
That’s five unions to two businesses and three other groups. Five out of ten is half, by my always-suspect English-major math. And who are those other groups? ActBlue is a Democratic clearinghouse, the trial lawyers are super-lopsidedly Democratic, and four out of five of the Realtors’ …