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Daily Archives: October 4th, 2010

Termination to Unionization


recent (June 2010) news article reported that 200 employees of a local non profit were “terminated”. This was explained by a member of management as normal procedure when in fact it was not normal procedure. Normal procedure was to “lay off ” workers until the fall session and recall them. This new action was in response to a recently enacted portion of the National Health Care bill, which requires employers to pay for part of the “laid” off workers COBRA. This would have been an 18 to 20 thousand dollar expense. It was also stated that most of those terminated would be called back in the fall session however after that mass termination, 8 employees were summarily “sacked” some with 18 years of quality service. Thereafter some 22 more positions and employees were eliminated when the terminated and still employed decided to unionize. This last mass termination fueled by the assault of management against unionization allowed the employees to use the Non profit’s mission statement as the tool to unionize.

Much Ado about Something


During the past year the local and National political incumbents and aspirants are pounding the water lines of their opponents with semi truths, outright lies and innuendos that tell nothing about the candidate. We think we know about the incumbents but in spite of what we think we know , we know nothing. Politics is a nastier business than some wars, the casualty rate is just as high and the overall body count in wounded is extensive. To assess the true worth of a candidate is nearly impossible as the public face is not the same as the private one. There may never be a way to get a true idea of who a candidate is or what they are about about however a measurement we can use is how few lies they tell about their opponent. This may noe be scientific but  along with