Don't Drink the Tea. Think With the WE.
May
2013
6
In the 5280, a battle is brewing between the Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce (CoC) and the City Council after a formal request was sent by the CoC under the Colorado Open Records Act seeking access to council members’ emails. The Chamber is accusing council members of using their position to influence union organizing votes. ...
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May
2013
3
Nurture versus Nature. It is the age-old philosophical question of human development that has been asked of countless people who display out of the ordinary physical ability, moral positions or social proclivities. Were you born that way? Or were you taught to be that way? Any baseball fan who has had the pleasure of watching ...
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May
2013
3
A deep look into American wage theft from AlterNet writer Lynn Stuart Parramore provides an enhanced view of the problem plaguing workers today. Published as part of a series titled, “The Age of Fraud,” the piece looks into the details of how wage theft occurs and what protections there are (or aren’t) for workers. Parramore ...
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May
2013
3
Ken Peres, Chief Economist for the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is sounding the alarm that the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is worse for workers than even its foes realize. The “free trade agreement” that has become a top priority of the Obama Administration sets dangerous precedents for America’s economic...
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May
2013
3
Since the dawn of man (or, perhaps capitalism), workers and management have disagreed on the impact of raising wages. For workers making less than $10/hour, a few extra bucks a week can make a huge difference in terms of quality of life. Management, on the other hand, predictably suggests that raising wages kills jobs and ...
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May
2013
2
The Center for Construction and Research Training (CPWR) recently released a comprehensive new Construction Chart Book with a glorious array of facts and figures, in chart form, concerning the construction industry. In this post we are focusing on displaced workers and re-employment. The Great Recession disproportionally affected construction...
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May
2013
2
Despite a ballot measure passed last year to ban the requirement of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) in San Diego, similar pacts are now being negotiated by contractors looking to ensure efficiency on public works projects. Two current projects are using labor agreements with PLA-like stipulations in order to maximize the positive effect that new...
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May
2013
2
We turn the channel to the good news today with a pair of feel-good stories about pesky union thugs donating their wicked time and evil labor to help out in the community… WASHINGTON In the Pacific Northwest, a new regional distribution center for Second Harvest, a non-profit organization that provides 1.7 million pounds of food ...
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May
2013
2
A battle is brewing in the New Jersey palisades as South Korea-based LG Electronics is looking to build its new North American headquarters on a 27-acre lot near the Hudson River. Environmental groups and labor are now going toe-to-toe with conservationists angered that the new LG campus will peek over the treeline. The area has ...
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Apr
2013
30
As Paid Sick Leave becomes the new norm in Seattle, business owners are taking different, um, “approaches” to making it work for their alleged bottom lines. Remember when Papa John’s, Darden Restaurants and that one Denny’s franchise owner said they were going to pass the costs of healthcare reform on to customers? Welp,...
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Apr
2013
30
A political cartoon from the Sacramento Bee that suggests Texas Governor Rick Perry’s agenda of deregulation is partially to blame for the explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, TX is drawing reaction from the Governor himself. In a letter to the Bee, Perry writes: “It was with extreme disgust and disappointment I viewed your ...
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Apr
2013
30
The Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) spends large sums of time and money defaming unions and pursuing a pro-business agenda. Their propaganda attempts to persuade the public that union work results in higher costs to taxpayers and excludes qualified contractors and workers from public works projects. Frequently, however, when a...
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