Smlr_net June 2013

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PBS Frontline: “The Retirement Gamble”
by SMLR Library 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: “The Retirement Gamble” *Author: *Martin Smith Date: April 23, 2013 *Source: *PBS Frontline * * *Abstract (video 1 hour): *Last year, the Obama administration proposed a rule to mandate that all financial advisers, financial planners and other assorted financial wizards would have to adopt a fiduciary standard when it came to employee retirement accounts such as your 401(k) or IRA account. The financial services industry, which today manages something upwards of $10 trillion of our retirement nest eggs, thought this was a bad idea and pushed back hard. Scores of their protest letters poured into the U.S. Labor Department, the branch of our government responsible for regulating employee retirement accounts. *Link:* http://to.pbs.org/180rjQG -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Washburn LJ: Limiting Information in the Information Age: The NLRB's Misguided Attempt to Squelch Employer Speech
by SMLR Library 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Limiting Information in the Information Age: The NLRB's Misguided Attempt to Squelch Employer Speech *Author: *Joe Mastrosimone Date: June 17, 2013 *Source: *Washburn Law Journal * * *Abstract: *The central promise of the National Labor Relations Act is freedom of choice to American workers to decide whether they wish to be represented by a labor union. At the same time, studies show that employees’ choices are not always the product of uncoerced freewill. Many attribute employer coercion as hampering employee choice. That choice had traditionally been made through a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. That election has generally been held approximately six to eight weeks after the petition for an election and after the union and the employer have “campaigned” for employee support. To correct employer coercion problems, the NLRB has altered its representation process to drastically shorten the period from petition to election. That shortened window significantly reduces the time in which an employer can communicate with his or her employees about the choice they are about to make in the soon-to-come election. The article concludes that attempts to shorten the campaign and cut out the employer’s role in the process are contrary to Congressional intent, to the First Amendment, and to the information gathering purpose of the campaign. Those conclusions are based on an examination of the legislative history of the Taft-Hartley Act’s inclusion of “the employer free speech provision” in Section 8(c), the court’s longstanding treatment of employer and union campaign speech as protected by the First Amendment, and studies of political campaigns that show that the information gathered by voters during a campaign is meaningful and helpful to the electorate and that the gathering of information is related to the length of the campaign. The article concludes that (1) the shortened campaign seeks to prevent unlawful coercion by improperly and unwisely limiting this protected and valuable information and (2) offers other means to combat unlawful coercion that respect the employer’s right and the employees’ need for information from both the employer and the union. *Link:* http://bit.ly/19iEBG2 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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EPRN: Extra! Extra! Rich Corp Execs Shut Down the NLRB! Then and Now
by SMLR Library 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** *Title: * Extra! Extra! Rich Corp Execs Shut Down the NLRB! Then and Now *Authors: *Ellen Dannin and Ann Hodges** Date: June 10, 2013 *Source: *Employment Policy Research Network * * *Summary: *Shutting down the NLRB has also been in the news in recent years. A large part of the NLRB's work involves investigating violations of labor law. Yet just a few months ago, in the lead-up to the 2012 election, Boeing used its wealth and clout to marshal its army of elected federal officials to get out of a labor law violation and weaken the NLRB. Those officials fell in line by threatening to defund the Board for having done its work of enforcing the law <http://www.nlrb.gov/node/3947>, which, in this case, involved investigating charges that Boeing had violated the law<http://www.nlrb.gov/what-we-do/investigate-charges>and prosecuting Boeing when the investigation showed reasonable cause to believe that Boeing had violated the law. *Link:* http://bit.ly/19iDF4o -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NYT: Labor Seeks Influence in New York’s Mayoral Race
by SMLR Library 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Labor Seeks Influence in New York’s Mayoral Race Date: June 19, 2013 *Source: *New York Times *Summary: *Unions across the city, after years of low morale and stalled contract negotiations, are roaring back to life this election season, excited by the prospect of installing a friend of labor in City Hall when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg leaves office at the end of the year. *Link:* http://nyti.ms/16K5mCf -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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NYT Op-Ed: Beyond Sweatshops
by SMLR Library 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Beyond Sweatshops Date: June 19, 2013 *Source: *New York Times *Summary: *No wonder Pakistan’s economic performance has been dismal over the last five years, under the government led by the Pakistan Peoples Party. It has averaged about 3.5 percent real GDP growth per year, less than half India’s rate. That may be a decent figure in the West, but not for a developing country with rapid population growth and widespread poverty. *Link:* http://nyti.ms/14iO7FX -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Correction: Mary Barra, the Contender: GM's Next CEO May Not Be a 'Car Guy'
by SMLR Library 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Mary Barra, the Contender: GM's Next CEO May Not Be a 'Car Guy' Date: June 7, 2013 *Source: *Business Week Authors: Tom Higgins *Summary: *At General Motors’ (GM<http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?tic…> ) Detroit headquarters, executive offices tend to be on high floors, have amazing views of the Detroit River, and contain a collection of model cars. The latter is especially true for car guys, that swaggering breed involved in design or engineering as opposed to accounting or human resources. Two things set apart the office of GM’s current No. 1 car guy: One, its occupant is a woman. Two, sitting on a cabinet among the toy cars is an Albert Einstein bobblehead. *Link:* http://buswk.co/15gj3pl -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Business Week: Mary Barra, the Contender: GM's Next CEO May Not Be a 'Car Guy'
by SMLR Library 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Mary Barra, the Contender: GM's Next CEO May Not Be a 'Car Guy' Date: June 7, 2013 *Source: *Business Week Authors: Tom Higgins *Summary: *At General Motors’ (GM<http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?tic…> ) Detroit headquarters, executive offices tend to be on high floors, have amazing views of the Detroit River, and contain a collection of model cars. The latter is especially true for car guys, that swaggering breed involved in design or engineering as opposed to accounting or human resources. Two things set apart the office of GM’s current No. 1 car guy: One, its occupant is a woman. Two, sitting on a cabinet among the toy cars is an Albert Einstein bobblehead. *Link:* http://bit.ly/168R3qx -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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"Need to Know": Main Street: Findlay, Ohio
by SMLR Library 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Main Street: Findlay, Ohio Date: June 7, 2013 *Source: * PBS “Need to Know” Authors: John Larson and Maria Hinojosa *Summary (25 minute video): *How many times during the past several years have you heard one commentator or another express the same familiar lament? “*We just don’t make anything anymore.*” Of course, it’s not true. Not even close. No country exports more than the United States except China. What is true is that millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost, shipped overseas where labor costs are often dramatically lower. And that’s had a profound effect on many factory towns across the United States, particularly in the industrial heartland— The Midwest. *Link:* http://to.pbs.org/11at4no -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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PBS NewsHour: Reinventing Old Age: The Good We Do When We Work Forever
by SMLR Library 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Reinventing Old Age: The Good We Do When We Work Forever Date: June 12, 2013 *Source: * PBS NewsHour Author: Paul Solman *Summary: “*We're trying to build a movement of people in the second half of life who want to use their time, talent and experience to be productive. We've given out Purpose Prizes for the past seven years, focused on people over the age of 60 who are doing their best work, their most creative work, at a time that used to be the leftover years . They're tackling some of the biggest challenges in the world today and drawing on their previous experience to do that.” *Link:* http://to.pbs.org/19NpsPJ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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Washington Post: Discrimination against pregnant workers has been rising, report says
by SMLR Library 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Discrimination against pregnant workers has been rising, report says Date: June 17, 2013 *Source: * Washington Post Author: Bridget Schultz *Summary: *Thirty-five years after Congress passed a federal law to protect pregnant women from discrimination on the job, these workers are instead denied reasonable accommodations that other workers receive and often wind up losing income, benefits or their jobs or suffering pregnancy complications, according to a report released Tuesday. *Link:* http://wapo.st/11MfTsf * * *RELATED:* It Shouldn’t Be A Heavy Lift: Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Introduced in Senate http://bit.ly/16EvRsK -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary(a)work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library

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