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...able to control industries only if they have a majority of the workers as members (that is, only if they are able to monopolize wage and hiring decisions), intimidation into joining unions is common. And while the Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that union members must be allowed to quit unions at any time, it is common practice for unions to claim, when they go out on strike, that their "rules" prohibit members from quitting in order to retain their jobs...
...such case is (surprise!) that of the Newspaper Guild in the Daily News Strike. At least 140 members of the union face heavy fines for attempting to quit during the strike, according to David Kendrick of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund (NRWLDF). The NRWLDF is representing eight of these workers before the National Labor Relations Board. Kendrick says that the NRWLDF is currently involved in more than 400 cases, many of them involving similar cases of union coercion...
...professor Terry Karl left her post at Harvard even after she won a sexual harassment case against a senior professor here. In this Saturday's Boston Globe, speaking on the record for the first time, Karl wrote, it is "strange to insist that Hill or any other woman must quit her job, not take advantage of job opportunities, or file a complaint in order to demonstrate her credibility in a sexual-harassment case." We agree...
...notch, to 6.7% from 6.8% the previous month. While President Bush hailed the movement as "one more sign that the economy is strengthening," many economists and investors saw little to cheer. Among other grim signs, the labor statistics showed that the number of discouraged workers, those who have quit looking for jobs and are no longer counted among the unemployed, had risen by 100,000 in the third quarter, to 1.1 million. "The economy is going nowhere fast. There is some recovery, but still lots of flatness and recession," said Allen Sinai, chief economist at the Boston...
...your money." I wrote it. And I did another one, and it paid for the bills...Within two months I got picked up by a magazine in Toronto, which is the art capital of Canada. (That sounds so bad, like the art capital of Mongolia). So I quit my job and ate oatmeal and hotdogs two years, and did the starving writer bit. I wasn't cut out for "work work". If I had lived in the Dark Ages I would have been a troubadour. I'd never work...