Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:35
In any industry, one thing is certain about unions: They want members - the more, the better. Railroad and airline unions are no exceptions. Right now they are gearing up for a campaign to persuade Congress to rescind a provision in the House version of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill (H.R.658), which passed last Friday. Title IX of the measure reverses last year's regulatory change by the three-member National Mediation Board - the entity that interprets the Railway Labor Act - that allows a union to win recognition without necessarily obtaining majority support.
Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 17:38
Paul Krugman has become to print media what Keith Olbermann is to television:a Left-leaning prince of darkness. A professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton this decade, Krugman, now 56, has cultivated a recognizably caustic style of scoring points against free-market economics in theory and practice, especially in his New York Times op-ed and blog columns.The problem is that as he’s become a public figure, he’s shed, or at least has kept well-hidden, his empirical sense.
In any industry, one thing is certain about unions: They want members - the more, the better. Railroad and airline unions are no exceptions. Right now they are gearing up for a campaign to persuade Congress to rescind a provision in the House version of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill (H.R.658), which passed last Friday. Title IX of the measure reverses last year's regulatory change by the three-member 
Paul Krugman has become to print media what Keith Olbermann is to television:
