Additionally, GM joined with Chrysler and Toyota to outsource Teamster car haulers’ work to non-union trucking firms, replacing the Teamster drivers at Ryder Truck with a non-union company. It will be interesting to see how the weakened UAW will respond.

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Although some financial mavens have agreed that implementing certain transaction taxes may mitigate rampant speculation in the markets, neither the government nor the U.S. Chamber of Commerce agree that taxes are the answer to speculation issues or to job creation.

The AFL-CIO intends to unleash a grass-roots campaign for the jobs program, called “Jobs Now Make Wall Street Pay,” in mid-March. Trumka is hoping to capitalize on voter anger over the government bank bailout scheme.

Although Trumka says his plan would raise $100 billion dollars per year in revenue, Martin Regalia, chief economist for the

Continue reading Soak The Rich To Create More Union Jobs

1. New Union Definition of “Green” Jobs
2. Union Democracy?
3. INK: March 12, 2010
4. SEIU Corrupton: Stern to Create Ethics Panel
5. Stern on social security

Labor Relations INK

In This Issue:

•   Labor Relations Insight by Phil Wilson •    EFCA Update •    Health Industry In For Rough Ride •    Soak The Rich To Create More Union Jobs •    SEIU Watch, and more…

Labor Relations Insight from Phil Wilson

Open Government?

Yesterday I got an interesting email from the Department of Labor. The DOL is soliciting ideas for “Open Government.”

“Open government” ranks right up there with “jumbo shrimp” or “civil war” in the oxymoron department. I’d love to see an estimate of the carbon footprint of the Freedom of Information Act. I know we send in thousands of FOIA requests each

Continue reading INK: March 12, 2010

1. INK: January 28, 2010
2. INK: January 14, 2010
3. INK: February 25, 2010
4. Health Care Reform = Rainmaker for SEIU
5. Health Industry In For Rough Ride

Stern’s leadership of SEIU received a solar plexus punch when Local 1021 swept his appointed leaders aside in a recent election, capturing all of the major offices and winning almost total control of the Executive Board. The outcome was salt in the recent wounds

Continue reading SEIU Watch

1. SEIU Watch
2. Andy Stern on Deficit Panel?
3. SEIU Watch
4. SEIU VS UHW-West
5. Stern Threatens to Pull SEIU Out of AFL-CIO

Even among union households, almost a quarter of those responding held an unfavorable view of unions.

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Union leaders say this latest win will likely have a ripple effect, setting a precedent for future efforts. IBEW Telecommunications Director Martha Pultar said this victory is a good sign for more than a dozen other ongoing Comcast campaigns from New England to Washington and Oregon.

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The answer leads to an industry that produces nothing of value to the GDP, and typically restricts the growth of the enterprises it is connected to: the Labor Union Industry. The wages for employees of labor unions skyrocketed and incredible 24.9%!

The other option would be the “enterprise” that labor unions are now so deeply embedded with: government employees.[2] It should surprise no one that the two enterprises that contribute nothing except more restrictive bureaucracy and regulation, and that takes their salaries out of the

Continue reading Good Work If You Can Find It…

1. More than half of all union members work for government
2. Unions: Good or Evil
3. 12 Union Myths Exposed
4. Do unions help nonunion workers?
5. Impact of restrictive work rules

Here is The Homeland Stupidity web site’s synopsis of this myth, and a link to each of the 12 Cato articles.

Myth Number Three: Project labor agreements reduce project costs and delays and are good for construction workers as a whole.

Fact: Project labor agreements increase costs and only help union workers. PLAs are agreements between construction project owners and unions that contractors on the project must use union labor, even if they otherwise would not. David G. Tuerck, economics professor and chair at Suffolk University, cites numerous examples of how nonunion workers were harmed when they worked under PLAs, “first by forcing them to pay twice for benefits already offered their workers and second by forcing pay cuts on their workers.” Then, unions use veiled threats to

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1. 12 Union Myths Exposed
2. 12 Union Myths Exposed
3. New labor blog
4. New Union Definition of “Green” Jobs
5. Myths about Labor Myths

Early indications for 2010 seem to indicate the trend will continue. “Unions very much want to gain inroads in expanding sectors of the labor force, and they know that if they can organize nurses and other health care workers, they will have a future,” said Gary Chaison, PhD, professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.

Continue reading Health Industry In For Rough Ride

1. Forcing Wal-Mart into the health care business
2. Health care costs and unemployment
3. Health Care Reform = Rainmaker for SEIU
4. Health Care in Exchange for EFCA?

Some still suggest that U.S. business leadership is quite in the dark about the dangers posed by even incremental changes to labor law. As James V. Meath put it,

“In short, they [the

Continue reading EFCA Update

1. EFCA Update
2. Labor Relations INK – EFCA Update Edition
3. EFCA Update
4. Election Update: The EFCA Reality
5. Arbitration: A Cautionary Tale