Smlr_net February 2013

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CPER: State Union Membership, 2012
by SMLR Library 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management** * Title: State Union Membership, 2012 Date: January 2013 Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Author: John Schmitt, Janelle Jones and Milla Sanes *Summary: *On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in 2012. This issue brief focuses on the union membership numbers by state. In addition to presenting the BLS estimates for overall union membership in each state, we also provide our own breakdown of state union membership in the private and public sector. *Link*: http://bit.ly/WHvFnU -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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WNYC: Minimum Wage: Too Low? Too High? Just Right?
by SMLR Library 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management** * Title: Minimum Wage: Too Low? Too High? Just Right? Date: Feb. 17, 2013 Source: WNYC 93.9FM Author: Joe Nocera of the *New York Times* and Rana Foroohar of *Time* *Summary: (this is an audio lasting 8 minutes) *President Obama's surprise call for a minimum wage hike during his State of the Union address Tuesday seems to have the entire nation pondering the same question: What * should* the minimum wage be? *Link*: http://wny.cc/W00xDb -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NYT: When Being Jobless Is a Barrier to Finding a Job
by SMLR Library 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management** * Title: When Being Jobless Is a Barrier to Finding a Job Date: Feb. 17, 2013 Source: New York Times Author: Winnie Hu *Summary: *New York City appears likely to adopt a law that would allow unsuccessful job applicants to sue businesses who they believe hold their unemployment status against them in making hiring decisions. The measure is widely seen as the toughest step yet in a flurry of recent efforts by the Obama administration and elected officials in at least 18 states, including New York, to help the long-term unemployed. *Link*: http://nyti.ms/11QM9j9 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NYT Op-Ed: Raise That Wage
by SMLR Library 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management** * * * Title: Raise That Wage Date: Feb. 17, 2013 Source: New York Times Author: Paul Krugman *Summary: *President Obama laid out a number of good ideas<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/remarks-president-sta…>in his State of the Union address. Unfortunately, almost all of them would require spending money — and given Republican control of the House of Representatives, it’s hard to imagine that happening. *Link*: http://nyti.ms/Uz9yl2 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NYT Op-Ed: The Health Benefits That Cut Your Pay
by SMLR Library 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *The Health Benefits That Cut Your Pay * **Date: *Feb. 16, 2013 *Source:* New York Times *Author: *David Goldhill *Summary: *NOT long ago, a 23-year-old woman joined my company as an assistant in the advertising sales department at a starting salary of $35,000. Smart, ambitious and poised, she should have a promising future. Unfortunately, her earnings prospects are threatened. Like many Americans, she’s unaware of how much of her compensation is being eaten up by health care costs, and how much this share will grow as long as the increase in health costs exceeds growth in gross domestic product. That’s just math.** *Link: *http://nyti.ms/150rXt3 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NYT Op-Ed: Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth
by SMLR Library 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth * **Date: *Feb. 16, 2013 *Source:* New York Times *Author: *Joseph Stiglitz *Summary: *President Obama’s second Inaugural Address used soaring language to reaffirm America’s commitment to the dream of equality of opportunity: “We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.”** *Link: *http://nyti.ms/12X52jL -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NYT Op-Ed: Why Gender Equality Stalled
by SMLR Library 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *Why Gender Equality Stalled * **Date: *Feb. 16, 2013 *Source:* New York Times *Author: *Stephanie Koontz *Summary: *THIS week is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s international best seller, “The Feminine Mystique,” which has been widely credited with igniting the women’s movement of the 1960s. Readers who return to this feminist classic today are often puzzled by the absence of concrete political proposals to change the status of women. But “The Feminine Mystique” had the impact it did because it focused on transforming women’s personal consciousness.** *Link: *http://nyti.ms/11Pk8sn -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NYT: So Why Are You at Your Desk on a Sunday?
by SMLR Library 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *So Why Are You at Your Desk on a Sunday? * **Date: *Feb. 16, 2013 *Source:* New York Times * * *Summary: **This interview with Daniel T. Hendrix, president and C.E.O.<http://www.interfaceglobal.com/getdoc/d8f690e5-8d09-4727-bf90-4ce2090f7a70/…>of Interface Inc.<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/interface-inc/index.h…>, a designer and maker of carpet tile, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.** * *Link: *http://nyti.ms/WDUTUc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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WSJ: The Minority Youth Unemployment Act
by SMLR Library 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *The Minority Youth Unemployment Act * **Date: *Feb. 14, 2013 *Source:* Wall Street Journal ** *Summary: *One paradox of the Obama Presidency is how it has retained the support of young people and minorities despite the damage its policies have done to their economic prospects. In his latest attempt to increase the minority youth jobless rate, President Obama is proposing to raise the minimum wage. * * *Link: *http://on.wsj.com/11MPMqv -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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The New Yorker: The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage
by Eugene McElroy 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage * **Date: *Feb. 14, 2013 *Source:* The New Yorker *Author: *John Cassidy *Summary: *“If a meteor ever smashes the earth,” Molly Ball, of *The Atlantic*, tweeted <https://twitter.com/mollyesque> on Wednesday, “there will still be 2 economists arguing whether minimum wage laws kill jobs.” More than two, I would say. For the past twenty years, studying the impact of minimum-wage increases has been a growth industry. One extensive review of the literature <ftp://ftp.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp2570.pdf>cited more than a hundred and sixty studies, and that was published in 2007. By now, we may well be approaching the two-hundred mark. And it’s still a contentious issue. Some economists say minimum-wage laws are harmful; others say they aren’t. * * *Link: *http://nyr.kr/XFoh9R -- Eugene McElroy Library Associate School of Management and Labor Relations SMLR Library Rutgers University 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, NJ 08901 (*848*) 932-9513

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