Here’s what Ed Morrissey has to say about unions in the context of Boeing and a government ruling stating the company was not allowed to move production out of Washington to South Carolina to save on wage costs: Workers have the ability to collectively bargain for wages, benefits, and working conditions in the private sector…
Category: Unions
GM’s Problems Started Decades Ago
Nate Silver’s picture is worth at least a thousand words when it comes to communicating how long GM’s financial troubles have been brewing. Silver also gets the reason behind the company’s demise right: the costs of GM’s retiree pension and health care programs. On one hand it’s easy to look back to 1950 and second-guess…
Quote of the Day – re Union Card Check Rules
Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa Jr.: “Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy?” Uhhm, since forever is my immediate response. That’s not really true, naturally. But it has been an essential principle of our country since it became apparent what pressures were always brought to bear whenever the secret ballot was not…
Competition No Longer an American Ideal?
Michael Lind says that southern states have waged an economic civil war on the rest of America, the real America, in Lind’s mind, by creating an economic environment in which companies want to do business and bringing jobs from the heavily unionized north of the country and from overseas. This, Lind Says, creates wage competition…
Detroit’s Problems and the Left
Perhaps the fundamental problem of our time is that no one wants to tell – or hear – the truth anymore. This has certainly been true in Detroit, et al, where the United Auto Workers has fought off wage and benefit cuts for decades. Now GM is poised at the brink of bankruptcy as a…
Lightening Up!
Polimom says that it’s time to lighten up around here. I admit that my outlook has been a bit bleak lately, but darn it, that’s why this site is called **Black Shards**, after all! 🙂 Still, good advice. As it happens, I was contemplating the nature and depth of Barack Obama’s relationship to the country’s…
Wal-Mart and Unions
The Wall Street Journal says that Wal-Mart is getting the word out to employees that electing Barack Obama would be bad for business and increase the likelihood of unions taking over in the companies stores. Both of these changes would be hazardous to employees’ future job prospects, the company insinuates. In recent weeks, thousands of…