Remarks from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, at a town hall meeting. “This is not about teachers, this is about the union.”
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Union Productivity: The Downfall of the Detroit Three?
December 31, 2008 – 1:15 pm
Rand Simberg argues that UAW work rules have killed the productivity of the Detroit Three. He thinks it’s possible that the companies could survive paying the high salaries if they had a free hand to simultaneously increase worker productivity. But they don’t and for that reason the union deserves to die.
Some have claimed …
The Fallacy of Unionization
December 7, 2008 – 10:19 am
SEUI chief Andy Stern:
When you have higher wages, people aren’t poor, they get to eat, they get to live a better life and have a social safety net.
That’s the fallacy of unionization right there. People who have a job are better off. But what about people who don’t have a job? They’re not …
Morning Links
December 3, 2008 – 11:27 am
Paul Copan busts some ”First Christmas” myths over at Reclaiming the Mind.
There would have been no inns in a backwater town like Bethlehem. They would be found along main roads or in cities. The word for inn (katalyma) is the same one as the ”guest room (of a private home)” …
Special-Ed Kids Everywhere You Look
May 11, 2007 – 6:21 am
From What special-ed cut means:
Several speech and language clinicians predicted some of the projected savings won’t materialize.
Testing of children diagnosed with only speech and language disabilities will intensify, they said, in search of additional diagnoses — such as learning disabilities, or emotional behavioral disabilities — that would cement the …
Manufacturing in Decline?
April 26, 2007 – 7:33 am
United States Steel, Alcoa, Goodyear and the United Steelworkers want to convince you that American manufacturing is in serious decline and that if serious action isn’t taken soon our manufacturing sector will disappear entirely.
”The hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs is hurting America down to the local level,” said Terrence D. Straub, United States Steel’s …
Unions and Success
June 14, 2006 – 6:30 am
The United Automobile Workers Union recently held its annual convention. While in Las Vegas, they discussed what steps were necessary to grow union membership.
Mr. Bailey [president of Local 2865] told fellow members that organizing could often take a long time, saying that it took nearly two decades to change California law to allow …