Tag: labor unions

The Sunday April 15, 2012 issue of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured a front page article entitled, ‘Hopefuls split on union issues’. The article is fairly extensive probably totally a half page but leaves a lot to be desired. How so? MJS writers Jason Stein and Patrick Marley spend what…

This passed mostly unnoticed but on Frida, a Federal judge in South Caroline ruled against an NLRB mandate that employers must post notices telling workers about their rights to organize. A federal judge in South Carolina ruled on Friday that the National Labor Relations Board did not have the authority…

I should have posted this during the peak of the mining discussions…but it’s still relevant as the mining bill went back to committee and will eventually make another appearance.

In a recent Op-Ed by written by Richard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit, who advocate for adding the right to organize a labor union, without employer discrimination, to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Here is an excerpt, I recommend the whole read: Other skeptics suggest that because…

Neither do I! He could be in Naples, FL or New York with the stimulus king of AIG, or attacking unions in Arizona, OR Colorado secretly getting his orders from the Kochs. The one thing we know is Governor Walker is NOT in Wisconsin and and he will not tell…

There’s been a lot of chatter about this article from The New York Times on Apple’s move to China for their manufacturing.  But there is an underreported backstory here involving the management of these factories and the workers whose lives are ruined by Apple, Dell and other American electronics manufacturers….

With a correlation of .56, it appears the higher the union membership in a state, the higher that state’s GDP.  Imagine that… Contrary to the wingnut talking point that “unions destroy prosperity,” the exact opposite seems to hold. Data is such a bitch… Some Fun Observations: Lower-Left = Red States…

The Washington County Republican Party recently came out (in force?), to show support for Scott Walker. Photo from Boots and Sabers where they said “The Walker supporters, who ranged in age from children to senior citizens“, although I am assuming they are counting the grandkids pictures in the wallet for…

H/T Dave Zirin of the Nation: The NFL Players Association came out today with a strong statement against Indiana’s “Right-To-Work(for less)” legislation that Indiana is trying to pass. Bravo to them! NFLPA STATEMENT ON SO-CALLED ‘RIGHT-TO-WORK’ LEGISLATION IN INDIANA WASHINGTON—As NFL players, we know our success on the field comes…

Earlier in the year, Earlier in the year, some union members in southeast Wisconsin suggested that if a business owner did not support the unions efforts in total it might lead to a boycott of their business. Wow, did that make the right wing in our great state unhinged. The…