If shipyard managers want productivity to rise and labor-hour costs to fall, they should look to the Golden Rule.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Time for students to occupy the classroom, demand fair pay for adjunct teachers
Part-time professors create courses, give lectures, spend hours grading and help students think critically – but they’d make more in fast food.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion, Times Record
Union official: BIW doesn’t need subcontractors to stay competitive
After getting pay concessions and tax breaks, the company should be ready to fulfill its obligation to the U.S. defense manufacturing sector.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Major labor law overhaul sought by Maine lawmakers
Democratic U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden back a measure that would block right-to-work laws and bolster America’s struggling unions.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Minimum wage increase means overtime pay for more Maine workers
The rules taking effect Wednesday will raise the threshold – from $33,000 to $36,000 a year – at which salaried employees must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Stock ownership plans offer appeal in motivating, retaining employees
ESOPs recognize the increased value of employee experience and jointly address perceived inequities.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Why Americans are staying put
Policymakers will have to come to terms with a much more rooted population than we have had in the past.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Insight: Jimmy Hoffa casts a long shadow over unions
Through works like ‘The Irishman,’ the notorious Teamsters president still links organized labor in the public imagination with organized crime.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine hospitality industry plans free culinary training
A grant will fund training for 125 Mainers to fill gaps in the state’s food service businesses.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
BIW union hopes to sink subcontracting plan that company says it needs
The shipyard says it needs temporary workers to complete a backlog of military orders, but the machinists’ union says that would violate its contract.