Smlr_net August 2012

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BLS: WORKER DISPLACEMENT: 2009-2011
by SMLR Library 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 24, 2012 Source: BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) *Link: *http://1.usa.gov/TiIQHG Headline/Title:* *WORKER DISPLACEMENT: 2009-2011** Summary: From January 2009 through December 2011, 6.1 million workers were displaced from jobs they had held for at least 3 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was down from 6.9 million for the survey period covering January 2007 to December 2009. In January 2012, 56 percent of workers displaced from 2009-11 were reemployed, up by 7 percentage points from the prior survey in January 2010. * **Author: *from Stuart Basefsky (IWS Documented News Service)** For the Full Article/Report, See: http://1.usa.gov/TiIQHG -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Economic Policy Institute: The China Toll
by SMLR Library 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 23, 2012 Source: Economic Policy Institute *Link: *http://bit.ly/O9vI5N *(this includes a summary of the paper, 4 tables and a link to the 33 page paper itself).* Headline/Title:* *The China toll * **Author: *Robert E. Scott * * *Summary:* Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the extraordinary growth of trade between China and the United States has had a dramatic effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy, though in neither case has this effect been beneficial. The United States is piling up foreign debt and losing export capacity, and the growing trade deficit with China has been a prime contributor to the crisis in U.S. manufacturing employment. Between 2001 and 2011, the trade deficit with China eliminated or displaced more than 2.7 million U.S. jobs, over 2.1 million of which (76.9 percent) were in manufacturing. These lost manufacturing jobs account for *more than half *of all U.S. manufacturing jobs lost or displaced between 2001 and 2011. For the Full Article/Report, See: http://bit.ly/O9vI5N -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Cheating businesses make it tough for honest employers
by SMLR Library 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 23, 2012 Source: NewsObserver via Steven Greenhouse *Link: *http://bit.ly/Pf1MGj Headline/Title:* *Cheating businesses make it tough for honest employers * **Author: *Mandy Locke * * *Summary:* Masonry company owner Doug Burton, center left, checks on a worksite in Raleigh on July 9, 2012. Burton plays by the rules: taxes, unemployment, workers comp. But, through the years, Burton lost his foothold in the commercial market in the Triangle. Two years ago, he discovered the problem: his competitors broke the law. They didn't pay taxes for their workers and saved 25 to 30 percent in labor costs. They were subbing their labor needs to a middleman who treated his workforce as independent contractors - or often as an invisible workforce, paying cash under the table. A single employee cost Burton nearly 20 percent or more to pay state and federal taxes, withholding and workers compensation insurance. For the Full Article/Report, See: http://bit.ly/Pf1MGj -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Associate Press: China-bashing on the campaign trail
by SMLR Library 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 23, 2012 Source: Associated Press *Link: *http://apne.ws/PJvHZC *Headline/Title:** *SPIN METER: China-bashing on the campaign trail Author: Matthew Pennington Summary: While U.S. presidential candidates talk tough about what they see as China's unfair trade policies, one fact gets little notice: Chinese companies are investing more than ever in the U.S. and supporting thousands of American jobs. For the Full Article/Report, See: http://apne.ws/PJvHZC -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NPR: South African Mine Shooting Hints At Deep Divisions
by SMLR Library 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 23, 2012 Source: National Public Radio (NPR) *Link: *http://n.pr/Q4p2uK Headline/Title:* *South African Mine Shooting Hints At Deep Divisions Author: Viviana Hurtado Summary: this is an audio presentation lasting 8 minutes 31 seconds. *For the Full Article/Report, See: *http://n.pr/Q4p2uK -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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(Opinion) Economix: Who Counts as Middle Class?
by SMLR Library 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 23, 2012 Source: New York Times *Link: *http://nyti.ms/SsppA5 Headline/Title:* *Economix*: *Who Counts as Middle Class? Author: Catherine Rampell *Summary:* As I’ve written<http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/rich-people-still-dont-realize…> before<http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/where-do-you-fall-on-the-incom…>, Americans don’t have a great sense of where they fall in the income distribution, or even what the income distribution actually looks like. Now, in a new report<http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/22/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-cla…>, the Pew Research Center has given us an update on the types of Americans most likely to call themselves middle class, and the answer doesn’t necessarily have a lot to do whether respondents earn close to the median income. *For the Full Article/Report, See: *http://nyti.ms/SsppA5 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Pew Research Center: The Lost Decade of the Middle Class
by SMLR Library 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *Aug. 22, 2012 Source: This is the complete report, including charts. *Link: *http://bit.ly/OSSY7C <http://bit.ly/OSSY7C> *Link to explanatory video: http://bit.ly/O2lJ3L* Headline/Title:* *The Lost Decade of the Middle Class* * Author: Pew Research Center *Summary:* As the 2012 presidential candidates prepare their closing arguments to America’s middle class, they are courting a group that has endured a lost decade for economic well-being. Since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some—but by no means all—of its characteristic faith in the future. *For the Full Article/Report, See: *http://bit.ly/OSSY7C -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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AP: Middle class share of America's income shrinking
by SMLR Library 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *Aug. 22, 2012 Source: Associated Press *Link: *http://apne.ws/OwWLdm Headline/Title:* *Middle class share of America's income shrinking Author: Hope Yen *Summary:* The middle class is receiving less of America's total income, declining to its smallest share in decades as median wages stagnate in the economic doldrums and wealth concentrates at the top. A study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center highlights diminished hopes, too, for the roughly 50 percent of adults defined as middle class, with household incomes ranging from $39,000 to $118,000. The report describes this mid-tier group as suffering its "worst decade in modern history," having fallen backward in income for the first time since the end of World War II. *For the Full Article/Report, See:* http://apne.ws/OwWLdm -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NPR: Trying To Tame The (Real) Deadliest Fishing Jobs
by SMLR Library 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 22, 2012 Source: NPR *Link: *http://n.pr/O5ccYa Headline/Title:* *Trying To Tame The (Real) Deadliest Fishing Jobs Author: Carl Nickish *Summary:* (this is an audio lasting 6 minutes, 44 seconds). The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks commercial fishing as the deadliest job in the United States. And despite the popular notion from reality TV's *Deadliest Catch* <http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/deadliest-catch/>, which features Alaskan crab fishermen, the most dangerous American fishery is in the Northeast. >From 2000 to 2009, workers in the Northeast's multi-species groundfish fishery (which includes fish such as cod and haddock) were 37 times more likely to die on the job as a police officer. A National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report<http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2011-105/>shows that 70 percent of those deaths and those in the second-deadliest fishery, Atlantic scallops, followed disasters such as a vessel catching fire, capsizing or sinking. Most of the rest came from onboard injuries or falling overboard — often caused by heavy overhead equipment. *For the Full Article/Report, See:* http://n.pr/O5ccYa -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NJ Spotlight: Snapshots of New Jersey: New Brunswick -- Working to Close the Disparities Gap
by SMLR Library 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management.* * * Date:* *August 22, 2012 Source: NJ Spotlight *Link: *http://bit.ly/OwUkrc Headline/Title:* *Snapshots of New Jersey: New Brunswick -- Working to Close the Disparities Gap *Summary:* Situated along the Raritan River, New Brunswick is noted for its racial and ethnic diversity. It was founded in 1730 and soon became a magnet to New Americans. By the 1930s, one out of three city residents were Hungarian, immigrants who were largely attracted to the region for employment at Johnson & Johnson. Although the Hungarian community continues to thrive, today the number of African-American and especially Latino residents is growing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 50 percent of New Brunswick residents are Latino, vs. 17.7 percent statewide. Sixteen percent of the population is black, 36.2 percent foreign born, and more than 52 percent speak a language other than English at home, nearly double the rate of residents statewide. *Author:* Gail Zoppo *For the Full Article/Report, See:* http://bit.ly/OwUkrc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 732-932-9513, beg. July 2: 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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