New Orleans These days news that the Supreme Court has decided to review decisions that involve labor unions is always cause for concern, but these cases are especially worrisome because they go to the heart of some of the few organizing successes that the labor movement has been able to construct over the last several …
Category: National Politics
Time to Get Wage Increases Back on the State Ballots
Lafayette Looking at the recent elections, SeaTac was the seasoning, but New Jersey was the steak when it comes to overwhelming support of the voters for raising the minimum wages to deal with stagnant pay packages and soaring inequities. The small Seattle working class suburb of SeaTac next to the airport, passed a huge minimum …
Subverting Competition in Healthcare May Force Price Controls
New Orleans There are obvious glitches in the Affordable Care Act that the politicians will handle. One of them, as I’ve argued before, is going to be extending the deadline for enrollment to escape penalties past March 31, 2014, and that assumes that the government doesn’t waive the penalties entirely for the first year, which will …