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