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Making Pâté de Foie Gras from union negotiations

March 6, 2011

Collective bargaining gone wrong Do union members get their money’s worth?  Not always! With all the talk about Wisconsin and the potential elimination of collective bargaining rights for state employees there,  and about how it is practically a violation of basic human rights if you are not represented by a union,  I wanted to write [...]

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Who is the bad apple in a labor strike?

August 19, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Nobody wins in a strike – no matter what the spin doctors say Collective bargaining is a complex and often misunderstood process, equal parts economics and politics, theater and conflict resolution. In Williamson, New York, nearly 300 hundred workers who produce  Mott’s apple sauce products for the Dr. Pepper Snapple group have [...]

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Inside Washington D.C. : HR Public Policy according to SHRM

March 18, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Employment Law and Legislative Developments Yesterday was the opening day of the 2010 SHRM Employment Law and Legislative Conference.   I’d like to thank the fine people at SHRM Public Affairs for granting me press credentials to cover the conference this week, especially Julie Malveaux and Jennifer Hughes for helping make that happen. [...]

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What the Public Sector is (and maybe should be doing) about jobs

February 28, 2010

Image by Getty Images via Daylife It’s the economy, stupid There is a great deal of concern about job creation in the United States today.  (He writes with a large degree of understatement in play).   Recently  I wrote about  what HR professionals could and should be doing about jobs.   I am a strong believer that [...]

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Would your company miss you if you took 6 weeks off for fun?

February 9, 2010

Social Fresh Wrap-up I volunteered to work at Social Fresh Tampa yesterday with a great bunch of volunteers.  It was a great conference covering a variety of topics including corporate blogging, WOMM marketing, and a number of other topics relevant and useful to businesses, as well as those working in social media.  The next event [...]

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Looking Forward to 2010: Life during Wartime

December 1, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Smartbrief on Workforce Mary Ellen Slayter at Smartbrief was kind enough to include me in a group of bloggers from the Smartbrief on Workforce Advsory Board that she asked to detail our predictions about workforce issues going into 2010.    I can describe my take in two words: Image via Wikipedia Why talking [...]

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