(Mobile) Labo(u)r Day!
I have written before that US immigration policy is dated – we focus on country based quotas, family reunification, lotteries, and there is way too much angst about the social cost of Mexican migrant labor. We have lost sight of an increasingly mobile global workforce which does not necessarily want to immigrate but wants to [...]
Another Form of Supply Risk — Organized Labor is More Out of Touch Than Ever
A visitor to our office earlier this week brought up his outsider view of Chicago as a city where organized labor was decimating the conference business. $444 per hour union forklift drivers will do that to you, I suppose. His observation was correct, however, given the recent flight of conferences from the city due to [...]
China’s Wage Landscape is Changing: Are you Ready?
Image by dcmaster via Flickr By now, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about the wage landscape in China and how foreign companies are paying more for labor (funny how we don’t hear anything coming out of China about mainland-owned and government enterprises upping wages, too — perhaps workers are a bit scared to protest [...]
