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Who Is Killing The Unions?
Unionism in the private sector is not just down; it’s almost out. Membership has been falling steadily for half a century and is now circling the drain, with membership at 7.5% of the workforce. In...
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Saga of an Earlier Labor Bill
The union card-check bill, AKA the insultingly-mislabeled “Employee Free Choice Act” (EFCA), looks ready to slide through Congress without a hitch. But, as both history and many clever sayings remind...
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Will the Auto Bailout Doom Card Check?
The two issues don’t appear to be directly related, but it could be that an auto bailout may jeopardize passage of the insultingly-mislabeled “Employee Free Choice Act”, better known as Card Check –...
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Happy Anniversary, Dear Chrysler…
Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Detroit On this day in history, 29 years ago, President Jimmy Carter signed a bailout bill that saved Chrysler Corporation from bankruptcy with $1.2 billion in...
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The Inevitable Wisconsin
by Hans Moleman In the words of Young Frankenstein’s Inspector Kemp, “A riot iss an ogly think.” So is the Wisconsin shootout; ugly – but inevitable. The unions had to be expecting a tough time with...
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Needed: A New Unionism
In Mother Jones (of all places), Kevin Drum has posted an interesting argument about the need for private sector unions to concentrate on wages and benefits rather than work rules. This alone is an...
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Lament for a True Labor Leader
HM: My old union buddy Dave Smith wrote the following thoughts about his colleague Jim McGarvey of Montana. McGarvey passed away this week, and Smith remembers him as the kind of labor leader in short...
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Unions vs. Jobs?
A new study of US manufacturing jobs offers some challenging statistics. They support the long-standing argument that union contracts are a (the?) driving force behind loss of manufacturing jobs....
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