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Flattening globalism: sovereignty. What a glorious word. A bit hard to spell perhaps, but worth every letter
Yes, I know it seems like only yesterday that the world was flat. That was Thomas Friedman's best-selling argument: "Walls" were a thing of the past. Flatness, globalism, the twilight of sovereignty--these were the waves of the future. Well, maybe Friedman needs to spend more time with the Irish...
Tags: Americans, Friedman's Inc., Union
Research articles 2008-06-30
Canada's workers movement: uneven developments
WITHIN THE CONTEXT of North America, Canada's economy, politics, and labour movement, as well as the country's diverse cultures, have a dual, almost divided, character. On the one hand, they exhibit highly independent and distinctive features; on the other, they are deeply entwined with--indeed operating in the shadow of and...
Tags: American, Bryan, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., D., David, Economy, Evidence, Fall, Harris, History, James, John, Labor, Palmer, Paul, Political, Politics, Social, Union, White
Research articles 2007-03-22
State of Labor Unions in the Union
Labor Day -- it's that one day in the year that we celebrate America's deep Gilded Age roots in trade unions. In reality, though, the U.S. has been on the decline for years. Here's one staggering fact on the downfall of unions: In the 1950s, one in three American...
Tags: Benefits, Jonathan Haeber, Globalization, Trade Union, Union, Downfall
Blog posts 2007-09-04
Transitions between formations and organisations: an historical perspective on the political representation of Australian farmers
Introduction A flurry of amalgamations of farm interest groups in the late 1970s produced a peak interest-group structure in the National Farmers' Federation NFF. The formation of the NFF in 1979 signalled a new phase in the political representation of primary producers. It evidenced a clear departure from a...
Tags: Australian, C., Council, D., Farmer, Farmers, Federal, G., Graham, Green, H., History, J., Labor, M., Martin, NSW, P., Paper, Political, Politics, T., Union, Vol
Research articles 2004-12-01
BNET Daily Dispatch: Dell, Bausch & Lomb, Amazon, and Blackstone
The New York State Attorney General has sued Dell over consumer complaints against the computer maker. The suit contends that Dell engaged in deceptive financing practices by misleading customers with enticing financing offers that carry many restrictions. The Attorney General's office wants an injunction against Dell's practices and...
Tags: Financial Services, Investment, Copy Protection, Music Industry, Amazon.com Inc., Bausch & Lomb Inc., EMI Group Plc., Dell Computer Corp., Union, Finance, Joseph De Avila
Blog posts 2007-05-16
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
By James M. McPherson. Pivotal Moments in American History. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 203. $26.00, ISBN 0-19-513521-0.) The writings of James M. McPherson can be described by three words: professional, popular, and prolific. No other American historian of the last forty years...
Tags: Lincoln, McPherson's Ltd., Oxford University Press, Pivotal Corp., Union
Research articles 2004-02-01
The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
By William W. Freehling. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xvi], 238. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-513027-8.) William W. Freehling shifts the focus of debate over why the South lost the Civil War onto two particular groups of southerners: white people who lived in the border...
Tags: Oxford University Press, Union
Research articles 2003-05-01
Plumbing the depths: Irish realism and the working class from Shaw to O'Casey
Early in 1899 the seedling Irish Socialist Republican Party held a public meeting to consider what had become a salient question. The minutes record that on 12 February Frederick Ryan 'delivered a lecture entitled "A Word on the Democratic Drama" in the course of which he dealt with and read...
Tags: Allen, Bernard, February Frederick Ryan, Fred, George, Holocaust, Ibsen, James, Moore, Oxford University Press, Shaw, Theatre, Union, W., William, Williams, Wilson
Research articles 2003-03-22
North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails, 1880-1920
IN APRIL 1854, the Great Western Railway declared that it urgently needed eight hundred workers to guard its tracks against stray cattle and hog crossings. Its advertisement, strategically placed in Canada's most important black newspaper of the day, the Provincial Freeman, sought African Canadians for the task. [1] Before the...
Tags: A., Aaron, African, American, Black, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., Charles, D., E., F., H., History, House, Immigration, Indian, J., James, John, Justice, Matthew, North, Order, PROCEEDINGS, Robinson, Thomas, Union, W., West, Western, White, William
Research articles 2001-03-22
Union approves Pratt & Whitney contract package
Union workers at five Pratt & Whitney plants in Connecticut have approved a contract package which includes concessions but preserves about 2,300 jobs. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers approved the plan Wednesday in a 4,210-3,496 vote. The agreement will connect pay with productivity and...
Tags: Pratt & Whitney, Union
Research articles 1993-06-25
Sun Times Union Has Hopes?And Fears?For Second Bid By Monday Afternoon
Bidders have until the end of the day Monday to challenge investor Jim Tyree’s $26.5 million offer for the Chicago Sun Times and 50 other newspapers, the rival Chicago Tribune notes via Romenesko. The Sun Times’ union is watching closely, as Tyree has demanded strict union concessions in as...
Tags: Union, Sun Microsystems Inc., Concession, Bankruptcy, Times Union, Sun Times, Guild, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, David Kaplan
External links 2009-10-05
Washington State's Cost Cutting Moves Opposed by Unions
The State of Washington is facing a budget deficit of close to six billion dollars over the next two years. The newly re-elected governor, Christine Gregoire, released a budget that tried to close the gap. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that one of the efforts will be to not...
Tags: Union, Worker, Matthew Potter
Blog posts 2008-12-24
Did Wal-Mart Settle Pay Lawsuits to Help Block Pro-Union Law?
Business continues to gear up to deal with the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act which would allow unions to organize via open check-off cards rather than secret ballot elections. Pro-business management groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and various conservative think tanks, public relations firms...
Tags: Union, Lawsuit, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-12-24
Mostly-Healthy Credit Unions To Get Capital Boost
For the most part, credit unions have plodded on just fine during the financial crisis. Even so, a government plan is due this week that could tap as much as $41 billion to make sure the system that keeps credit unions viable continues to perform. Millions of...
Tags: Union, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, Real Estate, Investment, Financial Statements, Finance, Business Operations, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-12-09
Boeing's Union Struggles May Affect Programs and Revenue
Boeing recently negotiated a contract with their engineers in Washington state. This after coming off a nasty strike with the machinist union this Fall. Now they are trying to negotiate with the local in Wichita where they work on a lot of their military programs. The first...
Tags: Revenue, Union, Boeing Co., Operational Accounting, Finance, Matthew Potter
Blog posts 2008-12-05
Obama Criticizes TSA for Contract Award
The Department of Homeland Security awarded Lockheed Martin an eight year, $1 Billion plus contract to manage the Transportation Security Administration's TSA human resources. Now Federal Computer Weekly reports that President-elect Obama wrote a letter to the Association of Federal Government Employees AFGE union that the award should not...
Tags: Union, Lockheed Martin Corp., Transportation Security Administration, Obama, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Matthew Potter
Blog posts 2008-11-25
Workers protest at Opel in Antwerp
Several thousand local trade unionists and Opel workers from across Europe descended on the carmaker's Antwerp factory yesterday.They were there to signal their unity in the face of Europe-wide job cuts detailed by Magna International, the Canadian parts-maker which is leading a consortium to buy Opel from General Motors."Wir...
Tags: Union, General Motors Corp., Worker, Opel, Antwerp, Company News, Human Resources & Employment, Joint Ventures, Redundancies & Layoffs, Strategy, Financial Times
External links 2009-09-23
JetBlue Pilots Vote Down Union
When David Neeleman founded JetBlue, he said that if a workgroup voted a union in, he would have felt like he failed his employees. Yesterday, the pilots voted on a union contract and overwhelming turned it down. Even though Neeleman isn't at the airline anymore, I'm sure he's...
Tags: Union, JetBlue Airways Corp., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Brett Snyder
Blog posts 2009-02-04
Labor Act Hits Wal-Mart Prematurely
Call it the Employee Free Choice Act or the card check bill, but if new legislation amending labor laws to make it easier for unions to organize does squeeze through the United States Senate, it could have some interesting and unintended consequences for Wal-Mart, among others. The...
Tags: Union, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tesco, UFCWU, Food & Beverage, Benefits, Retail, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Mike Duff
Blog posts 2009-03-14
Some Welcome GM Bankruptcy
Despite the announcement of bankruptcy, some General Motors employees have actually embraced the recent Chapter 11 filing. Dean Reynolds reports on the reasons behind their relief.
Tags: General Motors Corp., Bankruptcy, MoneyWatch, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Breaking, News, Evening, GM, General, Motors, Bankrupt, Chapter, 11, Economy, Recession, Auto, Union, Workers, UAW, Money, Employment, Detroit, Car, Chevrolet
Videos 2009-06-01