By Rick Manning – The GAO came out with a study late last week in response to a request by a handful of congressional Democrats to determine among other things, why participation in individual 401(k) plans has been limited to about 50 percent of the workforce. In […]
By Rick Manning – It is somewhat odd that one of President Ronald Reagan’s most often used quotes “Personnel is policy”, isn’t particularly eloquent although its alliteration and brevity make it memorable. Perhaps the three word phrase is remembered because it is succinct and accurate, even more […]
The National Football League is being turned on its head due to labor strife. Unlike most companies, the NFL needs a labor agreement to make its player draft legal, distribute national television revenues between teams, and set uniform work and hiring rules across the entire […]
The decision by the Minneapolis federal judge that lifts the NFL’s lock out of the players raises a question far more significant than whether football is played or not. The question is whether the government can compel an employer to continue to honor an expired contract with a group of employees? If the government can effectively force an […]
By Rick Manning – In a stunning move well beyond the scope of their legal mandate, the Obama Administration appointee controlled National Labor Relations Board is suing Boeing Corporation for, get this, building a second production line for their new Dreamliner passenger plane in South Carolina rather than in Washington […]
By Rick Manning – How is it possible to experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat simultaneously? Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg declared herself the victor in her big labor funded race to change the balance of power in the Wisconsin Supreme Court […]
By Rick Manning – Imagine the uproar if one candidate for president refused to accept the campaign spending limits that he voted for, and proceeded to outspend his opponent by more than a 3 to 1 margin. I’m sure you heard the repeated cries of outrage from […]
By Rick Manning – Senate Republicans are taking the bold step to make passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment on the upcoming vote to raise the debt ceiling promising to support an increase in exchange for the Senate passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment that would effectively […]
By Rick Manning – The myth of the Obama recovery took another hit when new single family home sales for the month of February dropped precipitously by 16.9 percent, reaching a seasonally adjusted 250,000 unit annual rate. The lowest rate for the sale of single family homes […]
By Rick Manning – President Obama visited both Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil this weekend including their capital city of Brasilia, to meet with that nation’s leaders. While many in the United States have commented on the bitter irony of Obama urging the development of Brazil’s […]
