Tag Archives: Unions

Private Equity: A Force for Good, or Evil?

Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2012 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney has been under a lot of pressure recently because of his private equity experience. Much of this negative media attention stems from certain assumptions about the nature of the private equity industry — assumptions that reflect … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Investing, Politics | Tagged Angel Capital, Buyouts, Democrats, Demon Capital, Egalitarius, Meritocratus, Mitt Romney, Private Equity, Republicans, Unions, Venture Capital | 14 Comments

My Occupy Wall Street Demands

Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.” — Lloyd J. Hart, precocious and Jefferson-esque author of Occupy Wall Street Demands I recently discovered this list of demands from an … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Defense, Education, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, Food Security, Humor, International Security, Media, Nuclear Power, Peak Oil, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes, Unions | Tagged Alternative Energy, Corn, Cubs, Debt, Default, Ethanol, Fossil fuels, Humor, Immigration, Immortality, Lloyd J. Hart, Lolipops, Mass starvation, Ninjas, Nuclear Energy, Occupy Wall Street, Red Sox, Republicans, Sarcasm, Smoot-Hawley, Starvation, Tariffs, Twinkees, Unemployment, Unicorns, Unions | 24 Comments

Labor Day Tribute: Why Unions Suck

Posted on Monday, September 5, 2011 by Chris Ladd

In the 1930’s, when workers in San Antonio forced by the Depression into degrading pay and conditions organized to improve their plight, they set in motion a series of unintended consequences. Their labor union, organized by authentic Communists, aimed to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes | Tagged Captialism, Living standards, Mechanization, Minimum Wage, Pecan Worker's Strike, Strikes, Unions | 4 Comments

The San Antonio Pecan Workers’ Strike of 1938

Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2011 by Chris Ladd

In the early 20th century, San Antonio had become the center of a modestly lucrative industry – pecan processing. Prior to the Depression, the business had started taking steps toward mechanization, but the country’s economic collapse began to reverse that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Technology, Unions | Tagged emma tenayuca, Mechanization, pecan shellers, san antonio, Strikes, Unions | Leave a comment

Another Strike from Unionized Employees in a Declining Industry

Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“You can deal with the name calling, you can deal with the picket lines, but it’s crazy when they’re an inch from your face screaming that they’re going to kill you and your family.” —Verizon manager, who refused to provide … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Media, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Unions | Tagged Al-Mahdi Army, Communications Workers of America, CWA, FBI, Hoover Institution, Megan McArdle, Richard A. Epstein, Stanford University, Thugs, Unions, Verizon | 16 Comments

Regulatory Uncertainty in the Obama Administration

Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“Wish we could nail it, but we can’t.” — Exelon CEO John Rowe on future nuclear regulations Some on the left have complained that the right frequently blames Obama for a bad economy, because his administration creates a great deal … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Clean Energy, Clean Tech, Finance and Economics, Healthcare, Media, Nuclear Power, Policy, Politics, Taxes, Technology, Unions, Wind | Tagged Boeing, Exelon, NLRB, Nuclear power, Obamacare, PPACA, President Obama, Production Tax Credit, Right-to-work states, Unions | 15 Comments

Capitalism, Unions, and Offshoring (Part VII): Lessons Learned

Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

In the last six installments of this series, Egalitarius’ management encouraged its workers to unionize, and then instituted several aggressive cost-cutting measures to offset the cost of more expensive unionized labor. In another scenario, Egalitarius’ unionized workforce went on strike. In the last … Continue reading →

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Posted in Business, Finance and Economics, Investing, Mathematics, Policy, Politics, Predictions, Taxes, Unions | Tagged Capitalism, Egalitarius, Meritocratus, Offshoring, Strikes, Unions | 14 Comments

Capitalism, Unions, and Offshoring (Part VI): Recession

Posted on Sunday, June 26, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

In the last installment of this series, Egalitarius’ management instituted several aggressive cost-cutting measures to offset the cost of more expensive unionized labor, and Meritocratus’ management moved its production facilities offshore. This scenario starts before Egalitarius’ strike begins. As both companies … Continue reading →

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Capitalism, Unions, and Offshoring (Part V): Offshoring

Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

In the last four installments of this series, the Widget Worker’s Union (WWU) brought Egalitarius to its knees with a strike that ultimately forced the company to declare bankruptcy. Before the WWU strike, Egalitarius’ management instituted several aggressive cost-cutting measures to offset the … Continue reading →

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Capitalism, Unions, and Offshoring (Part IV): Strike!

Posted on Friday, June 24, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

After Egalitarius’ management launched its cost-cutting program in response to worker unionization, the Widget Workers’s Union (WWU) called for a strike. The union contended that Egalitarius’ cuts constituted unfair retaliation against the workforce’s unionization. It is also complained that the inferior materials Egalitarius now used were hazardous to the … Continue reading →