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My Business Management Class and the Employee Free Choice Act

January 13, 2009

Many of my classmates seemed to be anti-union. While I don’t know if these negative views of unions came from management classes, their families or somewhere completely different, it was interesting that many of the students, who I could see as CEO’s of large companies someday, weren’t interested in unions. They didn’t see how unions and businesses could work together to produce competitive products and services while also giving employees fair compensation. For some of the other students in my class it seemed like it was always an us versus them type of situation. I think that the goal is for unions to form a mutually beneficial relationship between employees and employers. This is why we have the National Labor Code.

G4S Security Workers Sign Global Agreement

January 9, 2009

The agreement came as part of a major campaign led by the Alliance for Justice at G4S which included unions from Malawi to India to Sweden.  Earlier in December, G4S workers in Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo settled a complaint about the company that had been filed with the OECD National Contact Point in the UK in 2006.  That complaint alleged that G4S violated the OECD Guidelines for Multinationals in those four countries.  The settlement includes a number of commitments, but partly calls on the

Postville Immigration Raid and affects on Luther College Community

January 5, 2009

When the raid happened the principal of the local public school said that it was the saddest day of his life, having to separate his Hispanic students from the others to keep them in the gymnasium until it was determined if their parents had been taken in the raid or not. Many of these children still have anxiety problems because of having one of their parents taken away. Behavior problems have also become increasingly prevalent for the children who are still left in Postville.

Hilda Solis Needs a Mandate

December 19, 2008

Equally to the point,  Labor Secretary
Elaine Chao has kept such a low profile that we doubt many in the US today even
know who she is.  She has been absent
from any serious White House conversations on domestic or international trade
and economic policy.  This, again, has
been intentional; the Bush Administration has never been inclined to suggest
that the Labor Department have a role in such discussions.

Farmworkers are *** Over Under New Guestworker Program

December 19, 2008

My issues with the new regulations don't take the protectionist bent that others bring up. US farmworkers deserve jobs that pay a living wage and allow workers to unionize along with migrant farmworkers.  Incoming migrant workers are especially in need of work, thanks to the US corporations that dominate our food system, exploit farmworkers abroad and unfairly prevent subsistence farmers from making a living.  Immigrant farmworkers who have been displaced by US farm subsidies and exploited by US corporations such as Wal-Mart, Dole, Del Monte and Nestle who pay poverty wages have no choice but to migrate.

Take action to provide working families in Honduras with something to celebrate this Christmas!

December 19, 2008

Russell Corporation, the
apparel manufacturer owned by Berkshire Hathaway Corp., the Nebraska-based
investment firm headed by Warren Buffett – world’s wealthiest man,– has been
linked to some of the most egregious violations of workers rights seen in Central America in recent years.

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