Government and Economy
Small Business on the Stimulus Package
What do the microbusinesses of America really think about President Obama's stimulus package? BusinessKnowHow.com
Grassley Speaks-up for Small Business at Geithner Hearings
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) defended the needs of small business during Treasury Secretary Geithner's testimony before the Senate Finance Committee. “I don’t understand why you would charge small business operators more t...
By Charles M Cooper · March 05 2009
small business brief, marketing, small business, economy
Likened to a Trojan Horse, salting is when a union organizer responds to a Help Wanted ad from a non-union shop. The term comes from the practice of putting gold or silver in played-out mines in order to sell them to some unsuspecting victim. Here, it refers to someone whose real job is not what the company in question hired him to do, but rather to organize the other workers into a union.
Aside from the obvious that unionization will drive up the costs of your labor force, salting can also lead to discrimination lawsuits, legal troubles over employee discipline, and other managerial headaches that are best avoided.
Reducing Your Salt Intake
Protecting your company from this practice involves three basic steps: Weed out the salters during the hiring process, apply employee discipline fairly and across the board, and ensure terminations are fully legal. Every...
By Charles M Cooper · February 06 2009
labor, unionization, salting
Government and Economy
How the President Should Help Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs and experts offer their suggestions, which ranged from making health care more affordable and streamlining paperwork to out-of-the-box ideas like giving banks access to the Federal Reserve's discount window based on their increase in lending to small businesses.
Kiplinger: Unemployment May Hit 9% Mounting job losses and the troubled auto industry are putting more pressure on Congress to stimulate the economy, but will it work? Kiplinger predicts that 2009 could see 3 million jobs lost and an unemployment rate as high as 9%.
By Charles M Cooper · December 08 2008
small business brief, marketing, small business, Advertising
