Sick leave banking/rollover is ok, but employers hate it, particularly as time goes by and the banks fill up. Combining sick and vacation provides incentive for employees not to use their PTO when they are sick. You can’t always accurately predict how many sick days you’re going to need in any given year, so you will…

They also unilaterally decreased the profit sharing formula for non-union employees during the most profitable time in their history then increased it again last year. They can change their employment terms as they wish. A contract is about a lot more than just compensation -it’s also about accountability,…

There actually is evidence of a significant union premium regardless of class and craft in the airline industry. Lots of it. http://www2.gsu.edu/~ecobth/IZA_Airline_dp2384.pdf

This game looks like so much fun and the evolution of it so interesting. I’m tempted to give it a shot, but I worry about how much time I’ll need to put in before I start having fun.

Minimum wage for a year is only $15k if you work 40 hours a week. The average workweek for production and non supervisory workers is 33 hours and there are more part-time workers at minimum wage than at higher hourly wages so the annual wage income at minimum wage is no more than $13k and probably less. But that’s…

You’re right. It’s not 40%. It’s half. Just like I said.

Not minimum wage. $16,200 per year. I was not intentionally being confusing but I see what you mean, my statement is misleading. That figure is the average annual salary of the bottom half of U.S. adults so that would include salary and hourly employees but not all hourly employees of course. Many hourly workers,…

There is great potential in capitalism to create wealth. You’ll get no argument from me there. But the distribution of that wealth is the key (and what’s discussed in the article). The distribution of incomes in this country is incredible. The top 1% of earners in the U.S. take home 20% of national income. Using your…

I think it probably could be more obvious.

I just want to put in a plug for workers in air transportation, which is the highest-unionized private industry in the country. It is also an extremely profitable industry despite higher labor costs, and even unskilled workers are capable of hourly rates topping $30 an hour.

I think Newman’s point was that when the only jobs available to you are substandard jobs it is akin to slavery. It might have been a bit hyperbolic, but he or she wasn’t supporting communism or saying that “working on farms” would be better than working for Apple -though the suicide rates there at least support a…

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This. Give me a tournament where teams of roughly equal quality are assigned to players at random with a short period of time for set-up. I’d watch it religiously.
Even just watching the players decide on tactics and formations would be fascinating. All things equal, the edge would likely go to the player with a…

He didn’t make it terribly clear, but I believe these shirts are formaldehyde free. From the site: “Until now, formaldehyde has been the active ingredient in Non-Iron shirts. That’s bad. How bad you ask? Well, this toxic chemical is used to embalm mummies, among other things. That’s eww. We have engineered the first…

He didn’t make it terribly clear, but I believe these shirts are formaldehyde free. From the site: “Until now,…

Yeah that’s not a good look, but you can’t lump the building trades in with the rest of labor. They’re a different and much more conservative part of the movement, not unlike the police unions.

1. Damage trade relations with Mexico.

This plus I like a dash of EVO and a pinch of salt as well but generally I agree with simpler-the-better for pizza.

Ffuck off, I think you mean

I think about this a lot. I’m not sure how prevalent playing time or position clauses are , but it seems as good an explanation as any I’ve seen.

I would love to know the answer to this as well.

I would love to know the answer to this as well.