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For Governors, Public Sector Unions Are the Enemy They're being targeted for pay cuts, benefit cuts, salary cuts, and loss of collective bargaining rights   |
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March 9, 2011
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Dispatch from a Divided Wisconsin The battle in Wisconsin is about much more than public workers' pay. It's about the future of American government. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
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Taking a Page from the Republican Playbook Illinois state Democrats rumble with the unions over benefits. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Deprez & Rosenkrantz |
Women Bear the Brunt of Public Sector Job Cuts With females in the majority at jobs such as teaching and health care, cutbacks and limits on collective bargaining will fall disproportionately on them. |
Reason
June 2008
David Weigel |
Union Rules The Democratic coalition rubs its hands at the prospect of taking over Washington. |
BusinessWeek
September 9, 2010
Selway & Rosenkrantz |
Sounding the Alarm for Firefighters' Pay Union President Harold Schaitberger is trying to protect pay and benefits threatened by strapped municipal governments |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2010
Ben Elgin et al. |
The Political Rumble Over Public Pension Costs Unfunded retirement benefits have become an election issue, and unions are fighting back. |
Managed Care
May 2003
MargaretAnn Cross |
Rising Costs Strike Unions As Being Cause for Unrest Many labor organizations have been isolated from inflationary realities. Can health plans and employers make them see the light? |
Fast Company
Lydia Dishman |
Gawker Staff Votes To Unionize In Groundbreaking Move For New Media Call it an historic moment for labor unions: Gawker Media has become the first online-only media outlet to organize. |
Reason
November 2000
Michael McMenamin |
Labor Lost Why the AFL-CIO's cynical survival strategy is doomed... |
BusinessWeek
April 28, 2011
Mildenberg & Nash |
California, Texas, and State Workers' Pay As California tries to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, state workers - who earn 25.2 percent more than their counterparts in Texas - face cuts. |
CFO
February 1, 2005
Don Durfee |
Big City Blues Sooner rather than later, businesses will feel the effects of local budget shortfalls, through higher taxes and fees, crumbling roads and bridges, and smaller police departments. Simply relocating may not be the answer --- many suburbs now face the same fiscal pressures as inner cities. |
Job Journal
April 8, 2007
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: The Case for Unions Unions remain the best counterbalance to unchecked management rights in the United States. |
Inc.
September 2004
Amy Gunderson |
Labor Has a New Target And guess what? It's you! Unions are targeting small business. Few entrepreneurs are going to encourage their employees to unionize but, like it or not, more and more are going to be dealing with collective bargaining. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Peter Coy |
Commentary: States of Crisis Governors know plenty of phony ways to balance out-of-whack state budgets. Here are a few honest ones. |
U.S. Banker
October 2009
Glen Fest |
Next Up: Bank Employee Unions? In the corporate war on the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, bankers are nowhere to be found. |
Managed Care
June 2002
John Carroll |
States May Become Battleground In Push for Collective Bargaining Physicians at a local Texas hospital gained certification as a bargaining unit, and approached a managed care company to negotiate pay, but the effort failed. A new bill would allow physicians to ease toward collective bargaining nationwide. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Aaron Bernstein |
Big Labor's Day of Reckoning As a critical confab nears, how far is the AFL-CIO willing to go to stem its decline? |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Grover & Bernstein |
Arnold Gets Strict With The Teachers Schwarzenegger's plan to link educators' pay to test scores has triggered an all-out war. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Matt Welch |
California Screaming: The Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt Faced with a political class that ignored bureaucratic inefficiency, that demanded higher taxes, that filled the newspapers with scare stories about budget cuts, the citizens of one of the bluest states in the nation collectively said we just don't believe you anymore. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Margaret Newkirk |
State Budget Cuts, Reconsidered A faster-than-expected recovery in tax revenue has some states loosening their belts, while others stick to austerity plans. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2010
Brian Orelli |
What Bipartisan Health-Care Reform Means for Investors Republicans and Democrats will debate on TV, but little may come of it. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Bernstein & Borrus |
Labor Sharpens Its Pension Sword Unions are using their shareholder clout -- and pickets -- to lean on employers. |
BusinessWeek
June 4, 2009
Orey & Sasseen |
Organized Labor's Missed Opportunity Battles among top union bosses, including SEIU's Andrew Stern, have dimmed hopes of making major gains under the Obama Administration. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004
Aaron Bernstein |
Can This Man Save Labor? Andy Stern wants to radically retool the U.S. labor movement. But first he must win over some powerful union leaders. His message: Labor remains in a death spiral, and needs a top-to-bottom overhaul if it's ever going to revive. |
Reason
February 2001 |
Labor Lost Comments on labor unions. |
Job Journal
December 17, 2006
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Make Everyone a Supervisor? New labor ruling makes supervisors a dime a dozen. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011 |
Bloomberg View News: Shouldn't the market decide debit-card fees?... Ground a labor complaint against Boeing... |
IDB America
October 2003
Eduardo Lora |
Do unions help? They can lubricate the gears of the labor market or make them grind to a halt -- it depends on government policy. |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Aaron Bernstein |
Struggle For The Soul Of The AFL-CIO Two union honchos battle over reform, power, and turf on the eve of the AFL-CIO convention. |
Reason
January 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Soundbite: Labor Pains "Freedom of association is a right under severe, often buckling pressure when workers in the United States try to exercise it." That's the conclusion of Unfair Advantage, a new study commissioned by Human Rights Watch... |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Lindblad & Winter |
Red Ink from Sea to Shining Sea All across the country, states are in various stages of fiscal crisis. Here are some of the most at-risk. |
IndustryWeek
April 15, 2009 |
Unions and Business Battle Over 'Card Check' Bill Labor advocates say employers use bullying tactics to thwart organizing efforts, while pro-business representatives claim legislation is undemocratic. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
James V. DeLong |
Free Money Campaign finance "loopholes" are the best part of the system. |
CIO
May 1, 2001
Meridith Levinson |
IT Workers of the World: Are They Uniting? Labor unions formed at Microsoft, IBM and Boeing. Will there be a May Day uprising in your cubes soon? |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004 |
"Andy Put His Foot in His Mouth" AFSCME leader Gerald McEntee discusses the push for changing the AFL-CIO and how some are approaching it in the wrong way. |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Tim Jones |
Secret Cash Dominates in State Court Races Unidentified contributors are pumping big money into key races. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
GOP Lawmakers Blast Card Check Act Backed by unions, opposed by IT, Employee Free Choice Act draws fire from party leadership in Senate. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Carol Matlack |
A European Tour for U.S. Labor American unions are taking the fight for U.S. workers to European employers' home turf. |
Global Services
May 5, 2008
William B. Bierce |
The U.S. Presidential Race: Impact on Global Services-I Global enterprises will face new legal and regulatory trade and outsourcing policies, depending on whether Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John McCain wins the U.S. Presidential election in Nov. '08. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004 |
"We Have to Take A Different Look" Teachers union President Edward McElroy concurs that the AFL-CIO needs change, but he says Andy Stern's proposals are antidemocratic. |
U.S. Banker
February 2010
Bonnie McGeer |
Credit Crunch Helps Credit Unions By playing up how they can help create jobs, credit unions are gaining momentum with their effort to increase the cap on member business lending. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Go Beyond Banks Credit unions can offer great deals to savers and borrowers alike. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004 |
"The Status Quo Won't Stand" Joe Hansen, head of the United Food & Commercial Workers, predicts a "showdown" on reform at the AFL-CIO convention next summer. |
BusinessWeek
September 13, 2004 |
"We Need to Refocus the Labor Movement" Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on the need to work harder on membership growth and "to take back America from the corporations." |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2005 |
Calif. Community College Districts Launch Online C.B. Database The Online Collective Bargaining Database system aims to help administrators better manage collective bargaining negotiations and contracts. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
James Mehring |
Germany: So Much for Schroder's Agenda For Change In March, 2003, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder unveiled his grand plan for structural reforms, called Agenda 2010. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Dexter Roberts |
Is the Right to Strike Coming to China? Talks in Guangdong province could radically overhaul labor laws - including legalizing strikes. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Goodyear: Management 3, Reform 0 Unions' and shareholders' proposals get torpedoed at the tiremaker's annual meeting. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Ewing & Matlack |
A New Deal in Europe? With labor's power flagging, serious reforms may be around the corner |
