corner.nationalreview.com - 1/9/2009
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EFCA does not amend Section 14 (b) of the National Labor Relations Act that permits states to have right-to-work laws. Although EFCA will make it much easier to organize in every state in the Union, card check may have a more profound impact on states without right-to-work laws ( i.e., where ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/16/2009
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Here's a transcribed portion of President-elect Barack Obama's interview
yesterday with the Washington Post: Q: The...
Employee Free Choice Act - a timing question and a substance question: in terms of timing how quickly would ...
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Obama On The Employee Free Choice Act
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Passing The Employee Free Choice Act Would Mean More Outsourcing
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... Either to “right to work states” which don’t force employees in unionized labor forces to join the union, or to foreign countries that are free of America’s overbearing labor unions altogether. ...
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RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... . As Peter Kirsanow points out, enactment of EFCA will encourage massive economic migration from non right-to-work states as your typical employer will vote with his/her feet and leave rather than be “stuck with an EFCA mandatory arbitration award that raises his labor costs above that of his competitor in the adjacent right-to-work state”. This phenomenon, as Kirsanow reminds us, was responsible for the flight from the Rust Belt in the 1970s, which in turn, led to the decline of the cities during that decade. Apparently, today’s pro-union activists miss the ...
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U.S. household debt, which has been growing steadily since the Federal Reserve began tracking it in 1952, declined for the first time in the third quarter of 2008. In the same quarter, U.S. consumer spending growth declined for the first time in 17 years.
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... . As Peter Kirsanow points out , enactment of EFCA will encourage massive economic migration from non right-to-work states as your typical employer will vote with his/her feet and leave rather than be "stuck with an EFCA mandatory arbitration award that raises his labor costs above that of his competitor in the adjacent right-to-work state". This phenomenon, as Kirsanow reminds us, was responsible for the flight from the Rust Belt in the 1970s, which in turn, led to the decline of the cities during that decade. Apparently, today's pro-union activists miss the good old days of ...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sam Feist, CNN’s political director, was named vice president of Washington-based programming, the network announced Wednesday.
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