Category: Unionized Company

Another good article on Wal-Mart union talks in Canada

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 26, 2004 | Unionized Company

The NYT has a good article today on the Wal-Mart contract negotiations going on in Quebec. More talk of closing the store, which would not surprise me at all. In fact, I’m a little surprised at all the public dancing...

Pictures from the SF Hotel strike

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Oct 3, 2004 | Unionized Company

There are some great pictures up on the San Francisco hotel strike (now lockout), including this one: This is an interesting study of a strike. It captures the picketers going by in a blur, almost anonymously, while the hotel...

Labor political power RIP? (part III)

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Sep 14, 2004 | Union Avoidance, Unionized Company

Yeah, what he said (Cafe Hayek comment on the Broder article, also questioning the wage statistics much more persuasively than I did below).

Labor political power, RIP?

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Sep 10, 2004 | Unionized Company

Super article from David Broder on the weakness of the labor lobby. His statistics could use more than a little work (his source, EPI, is heavily funded by organized labor). The wage gap number is just plain wrong (this is a...