Smlr_net June 2013

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AOL: New Type Of Whistle-Blower: Young, Internet Savvy And Headed For Jail
by SMLR Library 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: New Type Of Whistle-Blower: Young, Internet Savvy And Headed For Jail Date: June 14, 2013 *Source: * AOL.com Author: Clare Gordon *Summary: *Miriam Cherry, a professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and author of the report, calls them "virtual whistle-blowers<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2273678>." Unlike past generations, they're blogging, dropping surreptitious videos onto YouTube or leaking documents to online groups such as WikiLeaks<http://wikileaks.org/>, as Bradley Manning allegedly did. Cherry points to a growing army of "whistle-bloggers,"<http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2010/09/did-whistle-blogging-contribute-to…>employees who blog -- usually anonymously -- about illegal activities at their places of work. No state so far, she notes, has whistle-blower laws on the books to explicitly protect bloggers -- let alone the people who post YouTube videos or leak to Wikileaks. *Link:* http://aol.it/15d0kee -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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NJ Spotlight: Leadership Changes in the Offing for State Teachers Union
by SMLR Library 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Leadership Changes in the Offing for State Teachers Union Date: June 14, 2013 *Source: * NJ Spotlight Author: John Mooney *Summary: *The New Jersey Education Association, the state’s dominant teachers union and among the most powerful state labor unions in the country, is about to go through a big leadership change, with both its president and executive director planning to step down. *Link:* http://bit.ly/11GEmyg -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Progress At Work, But Mothers Still Pay a Price
by SMLR Library 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Progress At Work, But Mothers Still Pay a Price Date: June 8, 2013 *Source: * NY Times Author: Stephanie Coontz *Summary: *There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality. Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which was signed into law on June 10, 1963. At that time, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, women earned less than 60 percent of what men made. According to Philip Cohen, a University of Maryland sociologist, a female college graduate at that time, working full time year round, made less than the average male high school graduate. *Link:* http://nyti.ms/16zJmKg -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: U.S. Seizes 14 7-Eleven Stores in Immigration Raids
by SMLR Library 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: U.S. Seizes 14 7-Eleven Stores in Immigration Raids Date: June 17, 2013 *Source: * NY Times Author: William Rashbaum and Mosi Secret * * *Summary: *Federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia early Monday, arresting nine owners and managers and charging them with harboring and hiring illegal immigrants and paying them using sham Social Security numbers, people briefed on the case said. * * *Link:* http://nyti.ms/ZXOtly -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Don’t Blame the Work Force
by SMLR Library 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *Don’t Blame the Work Force * * * **Date: *June 15, 2013 *Source:* NY Times *Author: *Editorial Board *Summary: *There is a durable belief that much of today’s unemployment is rooted in a skills gap, in which good jobs go unfilled for lack of qualified applicants. This is mostly a corporate fiction, based in part on self-interest and a misreading of government data.* * * * *Link: *http://nyti.ms/11SjU1A -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Living on Minimum Wage
by SMLR Library 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * Title:* *Living on Minimum Wage * * * **Date: *June 15, 2013 *Source:* NY Times *Author: *Annie Lowrey *Summary: *At least one part of the labor force has expanded significantly since the recession hit: the low-wage part, made up of burger flippers, home health aides and the like. Put simply, the recession took middle-class jobs, and the recovery has replaced them with low-income ones, a trend that has exacerbated income inequality. According to Labor Department data, about 1.7 million workers earned the minimum wage or less in 2007. By 2011, the total had surged to 3.8 million, with millions of others earning just a few cents or dollars more.* * * * *Link: *http://nyti.ms/14bBUTr -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Cleveland Plain Dealer: AFL-CIO wants to be the voice of most workers, not just those in unions
by SMLR Library 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: AFL-CIO wants to be the voice of most workers, not just those in unions Date: June 14, 2013 *Source: * Cleveland Plain Dealer Author: Olivera Perkins * * *Summary: *John Russo, who led the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University, which closed this year, said labor in the past has tried to form similar partnerships with non-union groups.<http://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/>The alliances often didn't hold together because of pressing labor distractions, such as difficulty negotiating contracts, especially during economic hard times and amid globalization pressures. * * *Link:* http://bit.ly/16ndGaS -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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The Hill: GOP labor bills limit 'micro-unions, ' require secret ballots
by SMLR Library 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: GOP labor bills limit 'micro-unions,' require secret ballots Date: June 14, 2013 *Source: * The Hill Author: Julian Hattem * * *Summary: *Two bills from Republican lawmakers would restrict labor organizing activities that their backers say allow unions to unfairly target workers. Legislation introduced in the House and Senate on Thursday would cut back on the ability of unions to form among smaller groups of workers and require that workers use a secret ballot when voting to organize. * * *Link:* http://bit.ly/11etz2L -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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WSJ: Are Long-Term Unemployed Taking Refuge in Disability?
by SMLR Library 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Are Long-Term Unemployed Taking Refuge in Disability? * * Date: June 14, 2013 *Source: * Wall Street Journal Author: Ben Casselman * * *Summary: *The sharp rise in federal disability rolls in recent years has sparked worry that able-bodied workers are using the system to hide from the weak job market. But new research suggests<http://conference.nber.org/confer/2013/LMs13m/rothstein_ui-di_apr2013.pdf>those fears may be overblown. * * *Link:* http://on.wsj.com/16nbIr6 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Sympathy for the Luddites
by SMLR Library 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and human resource management * * *** Title: Sympathy for the Luddites** * * Date: June 13, 2013 *Source: * NY Times *Author:** *Paul Krugman * * *Summary: *In 1786, the cloth workers of Leeds, a wool-industry center in northern England, issued a protest against the growing use of “scribbling” machines, which were taking over a task formerly performed by skilled labor. “How are those men, thus thrown out of employ to provide for their families?” asked the petitioners<http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/09/the-introductio.ht…>. “And what are they to put their children apprentice to?” *Link:* http://nyti.ms/18GD6Va -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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