Total assets in federally insured credit unions as of March 31, 2023, were $2.21 trillion.1 Advantages of Credit Unions vs. Banks Non-Profit Status As with banks, the process of making money at credit unions starts by attracting deposits. In this, credit unions have two distinct advantages o...
When unions were weakened and reduced, all that changed. Productivity and profits continued to rise, but wages did not. The ratio of CEO pay to the average worker pay went from 40 to 1 to more than 350 to 1. CEOs were given multimillion-dollar pay incentives to cook their books and mer...
The SMU originally included Denmark and Sweden in 1873, and later, in 1875, included Norway, which, although in union with Sweden at that point, had full internal autonomy. The SMU was different from the LMU, however, in that it was not bimetallic, but instead rested upon the gold standar...
This is much more complex than I originally thought, but I ask You to help me unravel these motive conflicts. Like many of our struggles in life, our motives become less clear when loyalties to multiple relationships are involved. Let’s start at the beginning, with the Finnish workers. ...
The Mechanic’s Union of Trade Associations was formed in October and it was the first trade union to cross craft lines. Even though there were internal disputes in the union, and it took ten years, in 1837 it became illegal for an employer in Philadelphia, to expect more than ten hours...
, programmers would be best served on the whole if they formed a union. Mark Herschberg Author Posts: 6055 8 posted 16 years ago Originally posted by Frank Silbermann: We do not actually measure software productivity so much as guess as to which developers seem to be "somewhat" better ...
The first stable trade unions in many Third World countries were located within the export sector. By the beginning of the 20th century, railroad workers, dockers, and miners had formed strong labour organizations. These workers, who were integrated into the outward-oriented economies typical of th...