Minimum Wage Affected

People that make close to the minimum wage are minimum wage affected.  Any raise in minimum wage will, likely, give them a raise.

Should be on wikipedia.

It came up because Obama's sotu address put UPS new hires into this category.

Apparently Indiana is going to have a Right to Work for Less fight.

Yay! It's an easy win, the message is simply that Right to Work is a misnomer. Ask someone to define what Right to Work should be and they won't mention a union, they'll mention the right to a job. Never say Right to Work, always say it's Right to Work for Less and that the state shouldn't participate in a Race to the Bottom. This messaging works, needs to get out on everything.

In Kentucky, we won this fight big time, with members of the GOP speaking against RTW at our rally.

The thing we didn't do? Use the tide to accomplish anything else. We went for a living wage, while that's a great idea generally speaking, it just didn't take.

Fedex CEO always makes Forbes List, workers make benefit cuts.

Unions Need to Step Up in Media

We all know of the BP ads about how they will be in the Gulf forever to clean up whatever remains. We know of their commercials from before about their investments in alternative energy - I emailed them and told them the amounts in the ads were lame. We know of other industries and companies in trouble with public opinion going on air with ads. This does two things, first, the ads themselves work on public opinion directly. Indirectly, the news and opinion people of the network are more willing to provide you with a favorable light.

I've heard an ad, on the radio, for a labor union, ONCE. I was traveling through Indiana and it was their trades union.

This blog post explains what's going on, but it doesn't talk about the lack of media use in labor unions:

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2010/08/why-is-the-public-suddenly-so-down-on-unions.html

It's a sad situation that must change.

The Ground War Between UPS and FedEx.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/the-ground-war-between-fedex-and-ups/3095/

But for some, the “bailout” assignation is a below-the-belt rhetorical tactic. As Factcheck.org has pointed out, even some supporters of FedEx on the policy have balked at the use of the word “bailout” to describe the legislative measure. Conservative columnist George Will wrote last year, in a column supporting FedEx:

The sad part of this is that Kentucky is a UPS state. So Kentucky Congressmen should support UPS, and our Senators have not. Conway will.