The term featherbedding refers to a labor union practice that requires employers to change their workforce to live up to union regulations. When unions engage in featherbedding, companies are ...

Gov. Hochul has until the end of the year to veto a stupid bill that never should have been passed that requires two-person crews on every subway train. Guv, ready your veto pen for whenever the ...

Abolishing featherbedding on holidays — the practice of hiring of more workers than necessary and at enhanced pay — is a sound management policy, not an unfair labor practice, a state appeals court ...

Little progress was reported Saturday in negotiations between shipping companies and striking clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The negotiating teams representing employers ...

When Rock Island railroadmen complained about their corncob-filled caboose mattresses half a century ago, they unknowingly baptized a working practice that is as old as man’s labor and as fresh as ...

Defence Minister David Johnston has warned arms companies cannot expect to win big government military equipment projects if there is “featherbedding’’ of workforce arrangements. Senator Johnston’s ...

One of U.S. management’s big complaints is against union featherbedding practices. Last week the American Institute of Management warned that unions are not alone in insisting on unnecessary jobs; ...

The protest of the North Western rail settlement by Alan E. Thompson, legislative representative of the union, was nothing more than a political statement. Everyone knows that the ”featherbedding” of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There could be power shortages and a failure in energy investment if Opposition Leader Tony Abbott continues "featherbedding pollution", ...

It would be funny if not so preposterous. In 2015 the Australian Energy Regulator ruled that it would no longer allow the then NSW government-owned energy distributors to pass on the costs of their ...