http://blog.nam.org/ Shopfloor.org is one of the top business blogs in the country discussing important issues affecting manufacturing, small businesses, free markets, outsourcing, energy prices, health care, taxes and staying competitive in the business world. http://blog.nam.org daily Copyright 2008 Tue, 13 May 2008 16:47:56 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. From The New York Times, May 18, 2007:As New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer won national attention by becoming the new sheriff in finance, taking on Wall Street and mutual funds and the insurance industry. With Mr. Spitzer now in... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/prescience.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/prescience.php Tue, 13 May 2008 16:47:56 -0500 The Senate today voted 69-29 to invoke cloture on H.R. 980, Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act of 2007, to impose collective bargaining on state and local firefighters and law-enforcement officers. Wait... Can the federal government do that? No, actually it... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/calling_the_sho.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/calling_the_sho.php Labor Unions Tue, 13 May 2008 14:52:16 -0500 The Heritage Foundation has just released an analysis of the economic consequences of the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade legislation, S. 2191, America's Climate Security Act of 2007. Conducted by Heritage's Center for Data Analysis, "The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/the_consequence_1.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/the_consequence_1.php Global Warming Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:40 -0500 U.S. Senate rejects the supply side of supply and demand, defeating an amendment sponsored by Sen. Mitch McConnell that would have allowed access to domestic energy supplies in the Outer Continental Sheld and the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. On to... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/mcconnell_energ.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/mcconnell_energ.php Energy Tue, 13 May 2008 11:47:35 -0500 As the three major Presidential candidates continue on the campaign trail, one similarity among them stands out: None has outlined a comprehensive plan to address the rising cost of energy. Despite significant gains in reducing our energy intensity, our economy... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/presidential_ca_1.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/presidential_ca_1.php Energy Tue, 13 May 2008 11:04:39 -0500 The National Review today takes note of Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao reaching a milestone today, the second longest tenure as a labor secretary following only Frances Perkins. And Secretary Chao hasn't just been marking time.Chao’s most significant achievement, however,... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/congratulations_13.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/congratulations_13.php Labor Unions Tue, 13 May 2008 09:42:27 -0500 In Politico, pollster John McGlaughlin reviews the results of public opinion surveys that show a candidate's support for the Employee Free Choice Act could be damaging at the polls in the fall election. Surveys conducted of Senate races in Maine,... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/card_check_a_ri.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/card_check_a_ri.php Labor Unions Tue, 13 May 2008 09:37:09 -0500 The Aon Corp., the risk management and consulting firm, has released an analysis of liability costs and trends in the long-term care industry, and for the first time in the nine years of reporting, liability costs are stable on a... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/tort_reform_wor.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/tort_reform_wor.php Health Care Tue, 13 May 2008 09:01:30 -0500 Good News from the Rockies. From The Associated Press: "SALT LAKE CITY — Rocky Mountain natural-gas production is soaring as new pipelines take away the region's bounty...Utah, Wyoming and Colorado together are producing 8.2 billion cubic feet of gas a... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/perambulate.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/perambulate.php Energy Tue, 13 May 2008 07:03:34 -0500 An unusual and unfortunate development at the U.S. Supreme Court today, as four justices recused themselves in an appeal of lawsuits brought by South African nationals against U.S. companies that did business with the South African government. Three of the... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/supreme_court_r_2.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/supreme_court_r_2.php Briefly Legal Mon, 12 May 2008 15:36:04 -0500 The New York Times ran a story Saturday on conservative support for a federal media shield bill, "From Places Unexpected, Support for the Press." Cited in the story as evidence are a conservative judge, Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. John McCain and... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/and_its_a_shiel.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/and_its_a_shiel.php Media Relations Mon, 12 May 2008 15:34:35 -0500 "Labor groups oppose Mexican aid package"WASHINGTON — A major U.S. counterdrug aid package for Mexico is under attack by U.S. organized labor, which says Congress should reject the initiative unless tough human-rights conditions are included, according to a letter revealed... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/in_other_labor.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/in_other_labor.php Labor Unions Mon, 12 May 2008 09:24:33 -0500 The Department of Labor today has published proposed rules for expanding the disclosure requirements for labor unions, affecting Form LM-2, which is used by unions with annual receipts of at least $250,000. From the news release:Changes being proposed include disclosing... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/transparency_fo.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/transparency_fo.php Labor Unions Mon, 12 May 2008 09:06:03 -0500 Farm bill and the Iraq war funding in the House, farm bill and flood insurance in the Senate. The Senate is expected to debate competing energy proposals (or anti-energy proposals, as the case may be), attached to S. 2284, the... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/post_46.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/post_46.php Mon, 12 May 2008 07:35:41 -0500 "There have been documented reports of polar bears drowning and starving -- and of snowy dens collapsing on newborn cubs and their mothers from unseasonable rains." -- NRDC fundraising letter from Lenardo DiCaprio. The Bush Administration is under a judge's... http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/_download_file.php http://blog.nam.org/archives/2008/05/_download_file.php Global Warming Mon, 12 May 2008 07:32:29 -0500