The demise of the Hostess company, leaving Twinkies’ future in doubt, was widely blamed on the bakers’ union’s strike. The real story is more complicated.
The bakers union agreed that their 2010 wage increase of 30 cents per hour would be almost completely devoted to pension contributions. So they took a two cent raise, and the...
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Smitten Men May Discriminate against Attractive Women in Iowa
A new case from Iowa rejected a sex discrimination case by a woman who was fired by her male boss. The reason she was fired? The boss found her too attractive and wanted to “save his marriage.” The Iowa Supreme Court (all males, by the way) decided that the motivation was not the fired worker’s...
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