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EPI: Scapegoating public sector workers
by Eugene McElroy 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

article quotes SMLR faculty member Jeff Keefe first paragraph: "At its core, the fierce debate waging in Wisconsin and several other states over public-sector unions can be traced to a single, false argument: that public sector workers are the cause of the budget crises states now face. In fact, the severe state budget shortfalls around the country are not the result of excessive compensation paid to the teachers, police officers, and firefighters who perform essential services, but to the economic downturn that left millions of workers unemployed while eroding property values. State and local tax revenues suffered as a result and today, more than three years after the nation plunged into the worst recession since the Great Depression, state and local governments are still trying to recover." * http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/scapegoating_public_sector_wo… * -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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Check out this link from PBS.org
by mcelroy＠work.rutgers.edu 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

A friend thought that you would enjoy this link. Check out http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/mcdonnell_03-09.html Either click on or cut and paste the link above into your browser to view

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PBS Video recommendation
by do-not-reply＠pbs.org 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu has recommended the following PBS video to you: http://video.pbs.org/video/1828213282 Note from sender: Now you can watch PBS programs online! Hundreds of hours of award-winning feature films, documentaries, and television shows are available at http://video.pbs.org.

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Colleges Unionization Drive Remains Mired in Legal Battle Over Church-State Divide
by mcelroy＠work.rutgers.edu 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education was forwarded to you by: mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu Message from the sender: Unionization Drive at Manhattan College Remains Mired in Legal Battle Over Church-State Divide http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Unionization-Drive/126671/?key=QWIgJAN… A Roman Catholic college is appealing a decision that it is too secular to be outside the purview of the National Labor Relations Board. This premium article will be available to nonsubscribers at the link above for five days and at http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Unionization-Drive/126671/ http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Unionization-Drive/126671/ Most E-Mailed For Deans, Off Campus Is Now the Place to Be http://chronicle.com/article/For-Deans-Off-Campus-Is-Now/126607/ Library Rights Are at Stake in New Supreme Court Copyright Case http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/library-rights-at-stake-in-new-supre… Campus Leaders in Pennsylvania Plan to Fight Deep Cuts http://chronicle.com/article/Campus-Leaders-in-Pennsylvania/126670/ Setting Students' Minds on Fire http://chronicle.com/article/Setting-Students-Minds-on/126592/ A Close-Up Look at Student Coaching http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/a-close-up-look-at-student-coaching/27… Finding it hard to keep up with all that's happening in academe? The Chronicle keeps you up to date with award-winning reporting and analysis of current events in higher education. We offer daily and weekly e-mail newsletters that will keep you current. Go to http://chronicle.com/myaccount/newsletters http://chronicle.com/myaccount/newsletters to sign up. (c) The Chronicle of Higher Education 1255 23rd Street NW Washington, DC 20037

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Women vs. Wal-Mart speaker 3/28/11
by Eugene McElroy 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

*The Center for Women and Work, and the Dept. of Labor Studies and Employment Relations will host Professor Mark Killingsworth (Professor of Economics, Rutgers University) who will speak on the Dukes vs. Wal-Mart discrimination case currently before the US Supreme Court. The event will take place at the Labor Education Center on March 28 from 12noon to 1:30pm. Lunch will be provided. For further information please call 732-932-4614 or contact kirist(a)work.rutgers.edu (Please see the attachment)* -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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[IWS] BLS: EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION - DECEMBER 2010 [9 March 2011]
by Eugene McElroy 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

*EMPLOYER COSTS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION - DECEMBER 2010* [9 March 2011] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm or http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf [full-text, 23 pages] Private industry employers spent an average of $27.75 per hour worked for total employee compensation in December 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $19.64 per hour worked and accounted for 70.8 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $8.11 and accounted for the remaining 29.2 percent. Total compensation costs for state and local government workers averaged $40.28 per hour worked in December 2010. Total employer compensation costs for civilian workers, which include private industry and state and local government workers, averaged $29.72 per hour worked in December 2010. (See chart 1.) Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC), a product of the National Compensation Survey, measures employer costs for wages, salaries, and employee benefits for nonfarm private and state and local government workers. Paid leave costs in private industry Private industry employer costs for paid leave benefits averaged $1.89 per hour worked. Private industry paid leave benefit costs were highest for management, professional, and related occupations, $4.17 per hour, or 8.4 percent of total compensation, in December 2010. Costs were lowest among service occupations, 59 cents, or 4.3 percent of total compensation. (See chart 2 and table 5.) Included in this amount were employer costs for vacations, holidays, sick leave, and personal leave. Paid leave benefit costs are often directly linked to wages; therefore, higher paid occupations or industries will typically show higher estimates for this compensation component. Employer costs for paid leave benefits averaged $2.77 per hour worked for union workers, significantly higher than the $1.79 per hour average for nonunion workers. (See table 5.) Paid leave costs in goods-producing industries were $2.11, greater than the average for service-providing industries, $1.84, in December 2010. The average cost per hour worked for paid leave in service-providing industries ranged from $3.87 in information to 40 cents in leisure and hospitality. (See table 6.) Paid leave costs varied widely by establishment size in private industry. Paid leave costs for establishments with fewer than 100 workers were $1.28 per hour worked versus $1.95 for establishments with 100 to 499 employees and $3.44 with 500 employees or more. (See table 8.) For information on paid leave provisions, see National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2010, at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/benefits/2010/benefits.htm. Legally required benefits costs in private industry The average cost for legally required benefits was $2.28 per hour worked in private industry (8.2 percent of total compensation) in December 2010. Social Security comprises the largest legally required benefit cost component at $1.32 per hour or 4.8 percent of total compensation. Legally required benefits such as Social Security and Medicare are often directly linked to wages; therefore, higher paid occupations or industries will typically show higher cost estimates for this compensation component. (See table 5.) Costs for other legally required benefits include Workers’ compensation, which averaged 42 cents per hour worked (1.5 percent of total compensation); State unemployment insurance, which averaged 18 cents per hour worked (0.7 percent); and Federal unemployment insurance, which averaged just 3 cents per hour worked (0.1 percent). (See table 5.) Employer costs for legally required benefits varied by occupation, industry, bargaining status, and establishment size. The average cost per hour worked for legally required benefits ranged from $3.43 for management, professional, and related occupations to $1.42 per hour for service occupations. The proportion of total compensation represented by legally required benefits ranged from 10.2 percent for service and natural resources, construction, and maintenance workers to 6.9 percent for management, professional, and related workers. Worker’s compensation employer costs for construction industry workers were especially notable, averaging $1.32 per hour worked in December 2010. (See chart 2, table 5, and table 6.) Other benefit categories in private industry Private industry employer costs averaged $2.22 per hour worked for insurance benefits (life, health, and disability insurance), or 8.0 percent of total compensation. In addition to insurance, the other benefit categories were: supplemental pay (overtime and premium, shift differentials, and nonproduction bonuses), which averaged 75 cents per hour worked (2.7 percent); and retirement and savings, which averaged 97 cents per hour (3.5 percent). (See table A and table 5.) **************************************** Stuart Basefsky Director, IWS News Bureau Institute for Workplace Studies Cornell/ILR School 16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 Telephone: (607) 255-2703 Fax: (607) 255-9641 E-mail: smb6(a)cornell.edu **************************************** -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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Injustice at Work by François Dubet (reviewed by Janice Fine)
by Eugene McElroy 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

*from the review:* "Those in the United States who have long idealized the French working class, where militant general strikes are not just artifacts of history but actual ongoing possibilities, are in for a sobering experience when they dig in to the findings of * Injustice at Work*. Based upon a dozen focus groups, hundreds of one-on-one interviews and over a thousand questionnaires with a cross section of the working population of France, it turns out that today’s French workers sound an awful lot like, well, their American counterparts." full text: *http://csx.sagepub.com/content/40/2/172.short* -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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(CEPR) Appelbaum:Economic Policy Still Failing U.S. Workers
by Eugene McElroy 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

from the article, written by Eileen Appelbaum: "Since the Great Recession was formally declared over in June 2009, the economy has experienced only two quarters of above-trend growth in real GDP – growing at an annual rate of 5.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 3.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010. For the rest of 2010, real GDP growth was disappointing – a point driven home in the recent downward revision of fourth quarter GDP growth from 3.2 to 2.8 percent. Employment -- which in February 2011 was still below its December 2007 level by nearly than 7.5 million jobs -- will add just 2 million jobs this year at this rate of growth. That’s a scant 1 million more jobs than are needed to keep up with the growth of the working age population, and will reduce unemployment by just half a percent over 2011." * http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/economic-policy-fails-us-work… * -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (732) 932-9513

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mcelroy@work.rutgers.edu sent you a link to content of interest
by mcelroy＠work.rutgers.edu 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

mcelroy(a)work.rutgers.edu sent you a link to the following content: Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 25, 2011 – March 6, 2011 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/labor-market-policy-research-… The sender also included this note: this edition of Labor Market Policy Research Reports includes two articles by SMLR faculty member Jeff Keefe -- Sent via a FeedFlare link from a FeedBurner feed. http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78966&topic=1…

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NYTimes.com: Talks to Resolve Impasse in Wisconsin Flounder
by ciudadviejo＠yahoo.com 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

This page was sent to you by: ciudadviejo(a)yahoo.com. U.S. | March 08, 2011 Talks to Resolve Impasse in Wisconsin Flounder By MONICA DAVEY There was no sign that Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, or Democrats saw room for compromise on the legislation. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08wisconsin.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company

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