A group of state employees in Washington, who recently became union members, now want out. Their beef with the union? They were told that membership and dues would be voluntary, but the union negotiated a clause requiring that...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThere 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...
Read MoreYeah, what he said (Cafe Hayek comment on the Broder article, also questioning the wage statistics much more persuasively than I did below).
Read MoreSuper 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...
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