Electric-Vehicles: Which Way Blows The Union Wind?
President Biden has made no secret (quite the opposite, in fact) of his goal of shifting the auto...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Sep 23, 2021 | Industry, Manufacturing, Politics
President Biden has made no secret (quite the opposite, in fact) of his goal of shifting the auto...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Aug 26, 2021 | Hospitality, Industry, Politics, Union Organizing, Unions
It probably comes as no surprise that the Democratic National Party employees are going to end up with a union, most likely without a vote. The DNC said that if a majority of workers “in a mutually agreed upon bargaining unit...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Aug 26, 2021 | Federal, Legal, Politics
Ahead of 2021, the National Employment Labor Project (NELP) indicated that 74 jurisdictions (various cities, counties and states) were set to raise their minimum wages with 40 of those jurisdictions moving to $15 per hour or...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Aug 26, 2021 | Industry, Manufacturing, Politics, Unions
South of the U.S.-Mexico border, workers at a GM plant (in Silao, Guanajuato) are seeing early results from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (T-MEC) signed by President Trump which went into effect in mid-2020. The labor...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Jul 22, 2021 | Labor Relations Insight, Politics, Unions
I’m a big Neil Young fan. I’ve been listening to him since I got my first “sound system” – one of those 1980’s all-in-one turntable, cassette tape, radio deals. The speakers were terrible, but in a weird way that probably made...
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