From The Atlantic (click here for story): “Without a certain level of commitment on the part of employees, businesses run into some very tangible problems, which soon show up in their profits. This fear has gripped the imaginations of managers and policymakers in recent years, and not without [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Corporatism’
June 6th, 2015 - 3:20 pm § in Uncategorized
The beatings will continue until employee morale improves
May 29th, 2015 - 12:08 pm § in Politics
The “right” to work for lower wages
“It may benefit employers not to negotiate with employees and to pay less, but that’s different from saying this is going to help a state’s economic development.” — Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon economist Republicans tout anti-union laws as a way to attract busine[...]
May 21st, 2015 - 9:46 am § in Uncategorized
Was WalMart’s anti-union video made with union actors?
https://youtu.be/_eQuIWmi9h8 A similar “training film” made for Target a few years ago was. (You can read about it here.)[...]
May 20th, 2015 - 1:51 pm § in Uncategorized
Oil spill fouls Santa Barbara Channel again
“Slicks of oil that spilled into California coastal waters from an onshore pipeline spanned a total of 9 miles Wednesday, and a company official said the line was operating at full capacity when it broke, suggesting much more oil escaped than initially estimated. … The rupture happened [...]
LETS MAKE UW AN ENDOWMENT FUNDED PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
The UW AAUP (below) is advocating “a Fully-Funded, Democratically Run UW.” This seems to me to be a very poorly thought out idea. Here is my alternative. Of course most liberals believe that our state should fully support the costs fo all higher education. Of course we. as a com[...]
May 3rd, 2015 - 10:07 am § in Politics
A liberal view of business regulation
Should there be laws against telemarketing robocalls? Payday lenders? False advertising? Should we have consumer protection agencies? Food and drug laws? Restrictive zoning and land use regulations? Obamacare mandates? Issues like these are debated endlessly, and are politically divisive, with parti[...]
April 30th, 2015 - 1:51 pm § in Uncategorized
TPP in a nutshell
The Trans-Pacific Partnership summarized: “One huge flaw is that while classical economics has a fair amount to tell us about the wealth of nations, it doesn’t say much at all about the wealth of the individual people inside the nations. A trade deal that enriches Americans who own lots [...]
Can someone call a doctor?
While we complain about our broken healthcare system in the United States, there are 5 billion people worldwide who lack access to surgical care. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32452249 &nbs[...]
April 27th, 2015 - 8:26 am § in America
Union Representatives Threatened at Gun Point in South Carolina
South Carolina: Union reps threatened at gunpoint, Boeing vote canceled The Machinists union is delaying its attempt to organize Boeing workers in South Carolina. The union announced Friday that is withdrawing a petition to hold a union vote. For the uninitiated into South Carolina’s to[...]
Poetry Session
Todays poem is brought to us by the Great poet Ice Cube, originally from arguably the greatest and most influential Hip Hop group ever, NWA. Hip Hop was more than words. Hip Hop was our voice. Although we have artists that are conscious today, I highly doubt that we will ever see these types o[...]