Labor

Government workers went out on strike in Greece and the United Kingdom last week.  The two strikes are unrelated, but they share the same root causes.  In both countries the...

Here in the United States, corporations treat their workers as adversaries.  The role of management is to "keep costs down," which is another way of saying that it gets paid...

Americans have long experience of companies cutting benefits, cutting wages, and trying to prevent workers from joining unions.  Few workers in America have been hit harder than aviation workers.  US...

As the economic news in the United States gets worse and worse every week, a lot of Americans are saying "at least we're not Europe."  To read the press accounts,...

The private sector's declining union presence, two top sociologists contend, explains a major chunk of America's growing wage inequality. In the 1950s, Sears Roebuck, a nonunion employer, dominated the American...

Corporate America, advises one of the nation's most prestigious management consulting companies, needs to wake up and stop rewarding employee loyalty and performance. With one exception. You work hard. You...

The folks over at the Economic Policy Institute in downtown Washington can sometimes sound like a broken record. But they should take that as a compliment, a tribute to their...

Corporate America is working feverishly behind the scenes to smother a new federal mandate, enacted last year, that just might revitalize the drive to roll back excessive executive pay. Sometimes...

Executive pay Down Under is rising at an even faster rate that U.S. top exec pay, details a new Australian Council of Trade Unions report. Australia's trade unions are calling...