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January 8, 2014
News & Commentary

Brad King

The Senate—with the support of six Republicans—voted yesterday to extend emergency unemployment benefits for 3 months. The Editorial Board of the Washington Post offers its thoughts on the economic implications of the extension, which comes at a cost of $6.5 billion. The New York Times is reporting that the Big 3 US automakers have announced […]

December 25, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

As Detroit struggles to meet its obligations to fund retiree health funds and public sector pensions, the city is poised to enter a settlement with two banks that may see the banks recover around 75 cents on the dollar. As the New York Times explains, this recovery—far higher than that expected for Detroit’s other creditors—stems […]

December 11, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

Starting things off, the Washington Post has a brief analysis on the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to dismiss Mulhall as improvidently granted, something we’ve been covering extensively here. In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe touches on the future of the postal service, the postal workforce, and retiree […]

November 27, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases on whether the Affordable Care Act can mandate that corporations provide insurance coverage for contraceptives for their employees despite religious objections of the corporation’s owners. As Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports, the Third and Tenth Circuits have split on the issue. […]

November 27, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases on whether the Affordable Care Act can mandate that corporations provide insurance coverage for contraceptives for their employees despite religious objections of the corporation’s owners. As Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports, the Third and Tenth Circuits have split on the issue. […]

November 13, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on an interesting development in the longstanding debate on the role that worker interests should play in corporate governance. Many for-profit employers like Ben & Jerry’s are advertising their receipt of a B corp logo—a seal verifying their social and environmental bona fides—in their efforts to draw socially minded […]

October 30, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

Unions have held back in supporting the roll out the Affordable Care Act, and Politico explores why. Public-sector unions have been left largely untouched by the legislation; with their hands already full, these unions have little incentive to help register non-members for benefits that members themselves won’t receive. In the private sector, negotiations are ongoing […]

October 16, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

Negotiations are continuing between BART and its two major unions and, as the San Francisco Chroniclereports, there will be no strike today. “We don’t want to talk about a strike; we want to get a deal,” said Chris Daly, political director of the SEIU. In political news, New Jersey voters are heading to the polls […]

October 2, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

The New York Times is reporting on the efforts of Texas Governor Rick Perry to lure American employers to the Lone Star state. In the past seven months alone, Perry has traveled to six states, trumpeting Texas’s low-tax laissez faire business environment. Some, however, wonder whether the trips are part of a broader effort to raise Governor Perry’s national profile […]

September 30, 2013
News & Commentary

Brad King

This weekend saw new developments in two major stories we’ve been covering: First, in Tennessee, a group of workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant is collecting signatures for a petition opposing the UAW’s effort to organize VW’s sole U.S. factory. Volkswagen declined the Wall Street Journal‘s request for comment on the signature campaign. Meanwhile, in the […]

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