Maxim’s new piece at Fox News: Top 5 Union Work Controversies
Posted: September 8, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Maxim’s new piece at Fox News: Top 5 Union Work Controversies
Boeing’s Uniquely American Right to Take Flight: Edward Glaeser
Posted: July 22, 2011 Filed under: Right to Work, Unions Leave a comment »Effect of Monopoly Unions on Income Distribution
Posted: March 16, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/effect_of_monop.html
Cynical Unions Are No Friends To U.S. Workers
Posted: March 9, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »Keynesian Politics and the Minimum Wage
Posted: March 5, 2011 Filed under: Minimum Wage, Stimulus, Unions Leave a comment »Miron on Unions
Posted: March 2, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/guest-blogging-unions/
Public Employee Unions
Posted: March 1, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams/public-employee-unions.html
Unions: Bob Barro’s Mistaken Analogy, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Posted: March 1, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/unions_bob_barr.html
Why Private-Sector Union Membership Declined. And Why Public-Sector Unions Might Follow.
Posted: March 1, 2011 Filed under: Public Unions, Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Why Private-Sector Union Membership Declined. And Why Public-Sector Unions Might Follow.
Wisconsin one of 41 states where public workers earn more
Posted: February 28, 2011 Filed under: Public Unions, Unions Leave a comment »http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-03-01-1Apublicworkers01_ST_N.htm
Why Do We Need Unions?
Posted: February 28, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Why Do We Need Unions?
Barro on Unions
Posted: February 28, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Barro on Unions
The simple macroeconomics of labor unions
Posted: February 26, 2011 Filed under: Labor Standards, Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The simple macroeconomics of labor unions
Harsanyi on Wisconsin
Posted: February 26, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Harsanyi on Wisconsin
Whitewashing the History of Organized Labor
Posted: February 23, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/23/whitewashing-the-history-of-or
Wisconsin: a frisky-union vignette
Posted: February 23, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/wisconsin-a-frisky-union-vignette/
The alternative to unions
Posted: February 23, 2011 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2011/02/the-alternative-to-unions.html
WorkPlaceChoice.org — Your Source for Labor News
Posted: February 7, 2011 Filed under: Labor Standards, Regulation, Unions Leave a comment »http://www.workplacechoice.org/
WPC is a comprehensive, up-to-date website for all news on labor regulations, private and Government sector unions, pensions, and pro-worker legislation.
Deborah Gist
Posted: January 11, 2011 Filed under: Education, Unions Leave a comment »http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1985480,00.html
Licensed, Safe Mexican Truck Drivers to Invade U.S., Teamsters “Deeply Disappointed”
Posted: January 7, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Licensed, Safe Mexican Truck Drivers to Invade U.S., Teamsters “Deeply Disappointed”
New at Reason: John Stossel on How Public-Sector Unions Choke Taxpayers
Posted: October 21, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
New at Reason: John Stossel on How Public-Sector Unions Choke Taxpayers
Jon Stewart on unions
Posted: September 21, 2010 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-20-2010/working-stiffed
Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested
Posted: August 7, 2010 Filed under: Government, Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested
Unions and the Obama Administration-Becker
Posted: August 3, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Unions and the Obama Administration-Becker
Unionism and Economic Recovery—Posner
Posted: August 3, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Unionism and Economic Recovery—Posner
THE BROTHER-IN-LAW EFFECT
Posted: May 22, 2010 Filed under: Minimum Wage, Uncategorized, Unions Leave a comment »http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123445602/abstract
When a firm is forced to pay abnormally high wages, hiring transfers rents. This effectively endows the employer with the ability to grant favors, and he may wish to do so even at some cost to efficient production. We refer to this as the brother-in-law effect. This article analyzes its consequences. When the brother-in-law effect is due to unionization, decisions regarding both the number and type of workers employed could be inefficient; overemployment could obtain even relative to the workforce that would be employed without unionization. We also identify cases in which nepotism improves efficiency.
Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State
Posted: April 5, 2010 Filed under: Unions Leave a comment »“Concerns over the impacts of hospital strikes on patient welfare led to substantial delay in the ability of hospitals to unionize. Once allowed, hospitals unionized rapidly and now represent one of the largest union sectors of the U.S. economy. Were the original fears of harmful hospital strikes realized as a result? In this paper we analyze the effects of nurses’ strikes in hospitals on patient outcomes. We utilize a unique dataset collected on nurses’ strikes over the 1984 to 2004 period in New York State, and match these strikes to a restricted use hospital discharge database which provides information on treatment intensity, patient mortality and hospital readmission. Controlling for hospital specific heterogeneity, patient demographics and disease severity, the results show that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease severity or treatment intensity. This study provides some of the first analytical evidence on the effects of health care strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses’ strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient care.”
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15855#fromrss
What unions are getting… ….from the Obama Administration, according to
Posted: February 21, 2010 Filed under: Protectionism, Special Interest Groups, Unions Leave a comment »http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-unions-are-getting.html
Lansburg on Protectionism
Posted: February 10, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Free Trade, Protectionism, Sweatshops, Unions Leave a comment »“Back in 1992, a ten year old Bangladeshi girl named Moyna was one of 50,000 children who lost their jobs in the wake of protectionist legislation sponsored by the execrable union-backed Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa…Tom Harkin doesn’t loathe her; he just doesn’t give a damn about her. Ditto for the union goons and theAmerican business owners who tout their made-in-America, untouched-by-Third-World-hands product lines. Those people (by and large) aren’t hateful; they’re just mercenary and callous”
http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/02/10/worked-up/
