Just as companies have been forced to rethink their role in society and express why the world is better off having them around, labor unions need to engage in the same process.
In fact, the league has had such little success in court that a primary goal for them during the standoff is to remove federal judicial oversight from the labor process, a burden the other major sports leagues in the U.S. don't have to endure.
Coincidentally, his comments were delivered as the IAM and Bombardier Learjet were in the process of hammering out a new labor contract.
The Board of CalPERS -- thanks to the strong, principled intervention by State Treasurer Phil Angelidis and his visionary Deputy, Jennifer Ducray-Morill -- has voted to include human rights, labor rights and environmental concerns in its overseas investment decision-making process.
In the process of building this symbiotic relationship between politicians and labor unions, a whole new class of unelected officials, namely labor leaders, has come to the fore.
Over the weekend, opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak were in Washington for the annual Middle East peace process conclave at the Brookings Institute's Saban Forum.
Last week, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Labor issued a report entitled, Changes Are Still Needed in the ERISA Audit Process to Increase Protections for Employee Benefit Plan Participants, which indicates that the Office is gravely concerned about the prevalence of unaudited employee benefit plans.
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Such a process upgrade could send Apple in search of a manufacturing partner with lower labor costs.
Second, Fogel is right to note that migration of labor to cities has been the engine of Chinese growth, but that process has stalled in the global economic downturn.
In June, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed new rules that would make the application process much more time-consuming and expensive.
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Rather than appreciate how this complementary process harnesses the benefits of our globalized division of labor, some begrudge iPod and iPhone sales in the United States for adding to the bilateral trade deficit.
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