Word: nonunionism
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...Mart's Supercenters are able to underprice their supermarket competitors about 15%, according to analyst Kalish, in part because they are more efficient but also because the discount giant uses nonunion labor. Wal-Mart matches the union pay rate in union markets, but the average wage at Wal-Mart nationally is less than $10 an hour before bonuses...
...costs low, rewarding workers for productivity, boosting quality and moving into new lines of business. They now account for nearly half of U.S. steel output, up from 15% in 1970. Led by Nucor, based in Charlotte, N.C., and Steel Dynamics, based in Fort Wayne, Ind., the minis run mostly nonunion shops and forge steel with less energy and labor than their integrated counterparts...
...separate agency to guide the city's rebuilding, something Giuliani and Governor George Pataki support. Last week he estimated the city's fiscal 2003 deficit at $2.5 billion, when many analysts put it at $4 billion. He has no experience dealing with unions--Bloomberg LP is a nonunion shop--but will have to make punishing cuts in the city's work force. Already, though, Bloomberg has marked a change in New York, just by being Bloomberg. "Right now the city has a massive hole in its heart," says strategist Hank Sheinkopf, who worked for the Green campaign. "The New York...
...states can offer the same deal. Public officials in the Tupelo area lure industry with low taxes, free road and rail connections--even subsidized rent and low-interest loans. But much of America engages in that kind of smokestack chasing. Tupelo has a low cost of living and cheap, nonunion labor. So does South Carolina. So does South America...
Unions feel besieged. First Bush froze restrictions that prevented labor-law violators from obtaining federal contracts. Then he signed orders that could cut into union political funds and boost the number of nonunion contractors on federal construction projects...