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The Bush administration struck out swinging at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) on its attempt to implement sweeping new personnel rules in a blatant attempt to gut collective bargaining rights and strip civil service protections for hundreds of thousands of federal workers. In separate court decisions in suits
Read moreDeputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said last week the Pentagon may ask Congress to extend a critical 2009 deadline involving the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), the controversial labor relations system that would severely limit collective bargaining rights for more than 600,000 civilian employees. Under terms of the legislation that created NSPS, a sunset clause
Read moreA recent Bloomberg report says that DaimlerChrysler, the first foreign carmaker in China, is in talks with Chinese government-owned Chery Automobile Co. to sell Chinese-built subcompact cars in the United States. DaimlerChrysler would join Honda Motor Co., Japan’s third-largest carmaker, in exporting vehicles from China. The reports says that DaimlerChrysler said last year it may
Read moreThe comment in a phone interview came as Sanders, labor union leaders and workers gathered at a Winooski factory that shut down last year due to overseas competition to decry the effects of “outsourcing” — companies closing plants in the United States and shipping jobs to cheaper labor markets elsewhere in the world. Sanders went
Read moreRecent downsizing among American automakers raises the broader question: how has American manufacturing been faring in recent years? Answer: Badly. In terms of both employment and wages, it’s been tough going for most workers in the sector. Employment in the sector cratered during the last recession and following jobless recovery and has failed to recover
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