Monday, August 29, 2005

New trucker safety rules are bad policy for everyone

The Bush administration's decision to keep rules that allow, or force, truckers to stay on the road 11 hours a day, six days a week, is bad policy for truckers and the motorists who share the roads with them. Full story here.....http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/columns/1894157.shtml

Trade Unions Going Global

“GLOBAL companies need global unions,” says Noel Howell, a spokesman for the Union Network International (UNI), a federation of 900 trades unions from 150 countries. It is hard to think of a single global firm that would agree. Certainly not Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer with 1.6m workers, 1.2m of them in America. It says that unionisation is not “right” for Wal-Mart, at least in America, and that unions “do not want us to succeed”. Full story here....http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4324954