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Will Racism Cost Obama The Election?
Electronic Village | October 9th 2008 by Wayne Hicks
I was born & raised in Los Angeles. Tom Bradley was my mayor and I thought he was going to be the first African American governor of California. In fact, I went to sleep with polls indicating a solid victory for Tom Bradley over his white opponen read more
Card Check: Concerns in the Keystone Stone
Manufacturing Blog | October 9th 2008
Yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet with manufacturers and other employers in the Philadelphia area at an event co-hosted by the NAM, Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association and the Mid-Atlantic Employers’ Association. I went up there to di read more
Kudlow on the Market and Presidential Debates
Manufacturing Blog | October 7th 2008
Did you know the only successful accomplishment of the Bryanite populist movement of the 1890s was to update the old phrase, “Behind every cloud there’s a gold lining?” Really. Debased the sentiment in the process, but what the he read more
Card Check: Democracy is Bipartisan, Right?
Manufacturing Blog | October 7th 2008
The Rocky Mountain News takes a look today at the increasing prominence the card-check legislation is playing in U.S. Senate campaign in Colorado between Republican Bob Schaffer and Democrat Mark Udall, a story entitled, “Pro-union act becomes read more
Card Check: Another Presidential Candidate Speaks Tonight
Manufacturing Blog | October 7th 2008
Former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern is featured in a television ad scheduled to run during tonight’s TV debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. The topic? The undemocratic Employee Free Choice Act, which McGovern s read more
Scabs for Oak Harbor Unsafe
Otter Limits | October 3rd 2008 by Steve
A replacement truck driver for Oak Harbor Freight Lines today hit a striking Teamster (with his truck) in Pasco Washington. The employee was relatively unhurt and the driver was charged by the police with assault.In Washington state alone, there are read more
Huffington Post: The Sleeping Giant in American Politics
Asian Americans for Obama | October 1st 2008 by Eugenia Beh
Deanna Lee writes this article about LEAP's recent public policy report, "The State of Asian America: Trajectory of Civic and Political Engagement," at The Huffington Post. read more
Katie Couric Asks Sarah Palin a 77 Percent Good Question
Manufacturing Blog | October 1st 2008
How jarring to see Katie Couric dredge up the “pay gap” canard in her interview with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Couric makes $15 million a year! Pretty good salary for a TV news personality who poses talking poin read more
U.S. Department of Labor issues union transparency final rule
TONY PHYRILLAS | September 30th 2008 by Tony Phyrillas
U.S. Department of Labor issues union transparency final rule read more
Card Check: LA Employees Aren’t Signing Up
Manufacturing Blog | September 29th 2008
The recent survey on the Employee Free Choice Act conducted by the NAM’s affiliate in Lousiana has prompted some useful commentary in the state’s media about the “card check” legislation. The Louisiana Association of Business read more
Card Check: Daily Roundup
Manufacturing Blog | September 26th 2008
There is a lot of good news and commentary out there on the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), organized labor’s attempt to eliminate secret ballot elections in the workplace. New information from the Louisiana Association of Business a read more
Un-American activities in Bucks County
TONY PHYRILLAS | September 25th 2008 by Tony Phyrillas
This is an interesting op-ed column by Simon Campbell, best known for his leadership in trying to ban teacher strikes in Pennsylvania.Denying workers freedom of associationSuppose you are Jewish and attend synagogue. There is a Catholic church across read more
Barbarians?
Manufacturing Blog | September 25th 2008
Jake Tapper of ABC notes remarks of Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) at a fundraiser sponsored by the American Association for Justice, the trial lawyers’ lobby. Biden said that he’s “done more than any other senator combined” for tri read more
Card Check: Senators Stand Up for Employees’ Rights
Manufacturing Blog | September 24th 2008
Yesterday several leading Senators held a press conference in the Capitol with business leaders to warn about the consequences of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The Senators who participated (including Sens. Hatch, Enzi, Ensign and Sen read more
Card Check: Marching…That Sounds Like Marching
Manufacturing Blog | September 24th 2008
Popping up here and there have been versions of an op-ed on the Employee Free Choice Act by Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a “progressive” think tank funded by the usual foundation suspects. (Ge read more
Local Teamsters Strike Over Violations
Otter Limits | September 23rd 2008 by Steve
More anti-worker violations within big business:Teamsters Strike read more
Needed: An Energy Bill that Can Become Law
Manufacturing Blog | September 17th 2008
Below we assert that the House-passed energy legislation, H.R. 6899, will not become law. We base the assertion partly on this: [Critics] of the bill say the absence of revenue sharing for new-producing states means a major means of enticing expanded read more
Card Check: Bernie Marcus and the Mexican Supreme Court
Manufacturing Blog | September 12th 2008
Bernie Marcus, the founder of Home Depot, has emerged as one of the most outspoken and clear opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act, the bill that would end secret-ballot election in the workplace in union organizing campaign. It’s democrac read more
Ergonomics Is Back on the Congressional Table
DJ Products, Inc. Blog | September 12th 2008 by Jake Devine
With the Democrats expected to control both the House and Senate come January, ergonomics is back on the Congressional table. In 2001, spurred by business lobbyists, a GOP-controlled Congress killed a Labor Department regulation aimed at reducing er read more
For a Healthy Auto Industry
Manufacturing Blog | September 11th 2008
Dow-Jones, “Manufacturers Call On Congress To Approve Loans To Auto Cos“: “WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The National Association of Manufacturers Wednesday urged the U.S. Congress to approve a federal loan program that would provide up read more
Really Reaching for Excuses on Ledbetter
Manufacturing Blog | September 10th 2008
Today Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced the findings of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, using the report to knock the Executive Branch for its alleged failure to crack down on pay inequity. This repor read more
New York Times: Pro-Union, Except For Itself
Manufacturing Blog | September 9th 2008
New York Times editorial, “The Right to Organize ,” March 6, 2007: Labor unions have a role to play in helping to fix today’s economic ills — most notably, worsening income inequality, a problem that’s caused in part by unions’ de read more
For Human Resources Managers, the Prospects, Politically
Manufacturing Blog | September 8th 2008
Below we published a list of labor-backed legislation that could well pass next Congress if the electorate decides expanded government, more litigation and Big Labor dictates are the best way to encourage …well, it’s almost tautological. read more
The Issues of September, Ledbetter Included
Manufacturing Blog | September 8th 2008
Politico’s The Crypt blog has the scheduling e-mail from the Senate Democratic caucus outlining leadership’s plans for the remaining two-and-a-half weeks of the 110th Congress. The House target date for adjournment is September 26, b read more
SafeLink, what a stink!
Conversations with Brit and Grit | September 7th 2008 by the Grit
I was waiting for this to break as a national news story, but elections and hurricanes seem to have pushed it off the important news list, so Tennessee to help pay for cell phones for needy. And yes, our State Government is controlled by liberals. read more
Report from St. Paul: Card Check and Political Accountability
Manufacturing Blog | September 3rd 2008
An ad in Minnesota sponsored by the Coalition for a Democratic Workforce, which the NAM helps to lead, is creating quite a buzz at the GOP Convention in the Twin Cities. The ad effectively points out that Senator Norm Coleman has been a staunch suppo read more
SEIU’s Andy Stern Joins Hands with an Apologist for a Cop-Kille…
Manufacturing Blog | September 3rd 2008
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the Employee Free Choice Act, Andy Stern, the Republican National Convention and Rage Against the Machine, let’s put aside the issue of card check and note just the basic facts, that is, the outrag read more
Happy Labor Day
SoonerThought | September 1st 2008
It's a good day to reexamine Labor Unions and why they are so important.Unions have made life better for all working Americans by helping to pass laws ending child labor, establishing the eight-hour day, protecting workers’ safety and health and he read more
Labor unions
Haiku Pundit | September 1st 2008 by Dave Undis
Labor unions are tools for socialism and mediocrity. read more
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