Archive for May, 2004
I missed my (blawg) anniversary
I just realized it’s been over a year now that I’ve been blawging away.
I started May 12, 2003.
It’s become a bit of an obsession, as I seize whatever time I can on the home computer (when kids aren’t IM-ing or gaming) to desperately try to keep updated.
I have a long, [...]
The United Methodist Church: leading a new (old) benefits trend?
Mary Williams Walsh writes in the New York Times: “United Methodist Church Bucks the Trend on Employee Pensions”
More than 17,000 employers in the United States have discontinued their traditional pension plans in the last 10 years. Countless others have scaled them back. . . .
Now, though, one big employer is resisting the tide. Earlier this [...]
SBC strike settled, pending ratification
Reuters reports: “SBC, Union Reach Deal After 4-Day Strike”
SBC Communications Inc. and a union representing 100,000 employees reached a tentative new contract on Tuesday . . . .
While the deal gives union members annual wage increases, a five-year ban on some layoffs and the prospect of moving outsourced jobs back from overseas, it also [...]
Sometimes you ought to stop and think: "how would this look in the local paper?"
In a St. Louis story with which I have a personal, but nonprofessional connection, Amanda C. Tinnin of the St. Louis Suburban Journals writes: “Disabled teacher’s aide sues SSD over right to have service animal”
Introductory note: “Special School District” provides services to students with disabilities and special educational needs. It is represented in this [...]
Another overtime update
First, the latest about overtime reform from the political front: ( “House Blocks Overtime Vote Sought by Dems” (Guardian Unlimited (AP- Leigh Strope)
House Republicans rebuffed a Democratic attempt Wednesday [May 12, 2004] to force an election-year vote on the Bush administration’s new overtime pay rules.
The vote, 222-205, blocked a move by Democratic Rep. George [...]