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Happy Labor Day! I’ve no special post of my own but I know someone who has created the ultimate list of Labor Songs. That would be Professor Phil Nel and at this point I’ve only seen the first of three posts but it is truly fantastic. For one thing, he includes Moxy Früvous on his round-up, and they were a band I adored back in the days of my youth. I’d forgotten all about “I Love My Boss” until now. Go! Look! It’s worth your time.
Now I’ve been amiss in not mentioning the speaking engagement I have at the upcoming Kidlitosphere Conference. I won’t be there in person, but through the magic of technology I’ll be Skyping alongside the hugely talented Mary Ann Scheuer of Great Kid Books and the simply marvelous Paula Wiley of Pink Me. Our topic? Mary Ann came up with the notion of covering book app features. What we like, what we don’t, what to look for, etc. And if you cannot attend, we may be able to put something on our blogs afterwards. Stay tuned or read more about the talk here.
New Blog Alert: Speaking of apps, ever wonder why there isn’t a children’s literature blog dedicated to the digital realm? Turns out, there is and it’s called dot.Momming. Children’s author and founder of the Hyde Park/South Side Network for SCBWI-Illinois, Kate Hannigan, provides reviews as well as multiple interviews with folks working in the field. I’m a fan, and not least because an app I helped advise (Hildegard Sings) shows up as number one on her Top Picture Book Apps list.
I like to see good work rewarded. And Kate Messner’s efforts to bring attention to the libraries devastated after Hurricane Irene certainly qualifies as more than simply “good”. The fact that School Library Journal highlighted her work in the piece Author Kate Messner Helps to Rebuild Local NY Library Devastated By Hurricane Irene is just icing on the cake. And much to my astonishment it include a photograph of a Paddington book that I apparently read as a child but had entirely forgotten about until I saw it in the article. Wow! It’s been a long time since that happened.
Need a good website for writing exercises? Have you seen the delightful They Fight Crime? Try it. Then try again and again. My current favorite is, “He’s a globe-trotting drug-addicted hairdresser on the edge. She’s a tortured belly-dancing vampire operating on the wrong side of the law. They fight crime!” Hours of time wasting fun to be had there.
Every other day an adult author gets it into their head that writing for children is a snap (sometimes with horrific results). Children’s authors rarely go the other way around. Now Eoin Colfer has decided to change all that. A comedic crime thriller called Plugged is
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By Edward Zelinsky
In recent remarks to the leadership of the AFL-CIO, President Obama and Vice President Biden affirmed their support of the Employee Free Choice Act. The Act is a priority of labor unions, a central element of the Democratic coalition. If enacted into law, the Act would effectively eliminate union recognition elections. Instead of secret ballot elections in which workers choose whether to belong to unions, the Act would amend federal law so that unions can achieve recognition based solely on public “card counts.”
Ironically, at the same time unions disfavor secret ballot elections in the workplace, many unions and their Democratic allies have aggressively advocated expanding the voting rights of corporate shareholders.
A similar paradox befalls the Republican Party. While the GOP has been stalwart in supporting workers’ right to vote in confidence on whether to join unions, the GOP has defended with equal fervor the efforts of corporate management to neuter shareholders’ voting rights. These efforts have been particularly troubling as corporate managers and quiescent directors have moved executive compensation packages into stratospheric levels and have denied shareholders the ability to vote their shares in protest.
No one has done a good job of explaining why workers should vote but not shareholders or vice versa. The underlying issue in both contexts is the same: the right of persons to vote confidentially on matters of importance to them. The secret ballot is the accepted method by which Americans exercise self-determination. Both as shareholders and as workers, Americans should enjoy a robust right to vote.
Just as President Obama’s endorsement of the Employee Free Choice Act highlights the issue of workers’ right to vote on unionization, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (known to most Americans as “the stimulus bill”) underscores the question of shareholders’ voting rights. Under this Act, firms receiving federal funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program must permit their shareholders to cast advisory votes on managerial compensation. But why just these firms? And why just advisory votes?
The limited voting provisions of the stimulus bill reflect the Obama Administration’s marked disinterest in giving shareholders the ability to vote on important matters, including questions of executive compensation.
Plausible arguments can be advanced both by those who would deprive workers of the right to vote on union representation and those who oppose shareholders’ right to vote on corporate policy. The procedures of the National Labor Relations Board, we are told, are so cumbersome that employers can delay union recognition elections inordinately and can create coercive environments when such elections are finally held. Shareholders, we are similarly told, often focus on short-term profits, rather than the long-term welfare of the corporation.
In the spirit of bi-partisanship advocated by President Obama, federal law should be amended to affirm the rights of Americans, both as workers and as shareholders, to vote. In the work place, unions seeking to represent workers should be required to obtain a majority vote by secret ballot of such workers. Similarly, important issues of corporate policy, most obviously the compensation packages of corporate managers, should be subject to binding shareholder votes by secret ballot.
While affirming the voting rights of workers and shareholders, Congress and the President should also address legitimate concerns raised by opponents of these voting rights. In response to the complaint that employers inappropriately delay votes on union organizing campaigns and create coercive environments, Congress should adopt administrable rules to prevent such delays and coercion and should appropriate the resources to enforce such rules effectively. In response to the complaint that shareholders ignore long-term corporate interests, Congress should similarly restrict voting rights to those shareholders who have owned their stock for a reasonable holding period and have thereby demonstrated a concern for the corporation’s long-term well-being.
With these protections in place, Democrats and Republicans alike should simultaneously affirm the rights of all Americans, both as workers and shareholders, to vote.
Mr. President: At the most basic level, the secret ballot is the American way.
Edward A. Zelinsky is the Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He is the author of
The Origins of the Ownership Society: How The Defined Contribution Paradigm Changed America.
Now I’m torn:
He’s a sword-wielding Republican dwarf with a secret. She’s an artistic goth opera singer with the power to see death. They fight crime!
vs.
He’s a world-famous white trash astronaut on a search for his missing sister. She’s a mistrustful Bolivian fairy princess from a different time and place. They fight crime!
If only the TV producers would visit this site. Thanks, Betsy!
I vote for the latter. It’s the “mistrustful” that does it for me.
Thanks, Betsy, for mentioning the Rainbow Fairies post. I have had several kids come in to ask for that dang Kate the Wedding Fairy book. The British Rainbow Magic site desperately needs a North American section as there are many “gems” on there that kids come in begging for, but just ain’t available over here. You think I would have an in with Ms. Meadows as I am a Canadian – and therefore a loyal subject – but no.
I have serious adolescent love for Moxie Fruvous. (Also, go Canada!) In fact, my friends declared “Video Bargainville” to be the official Jonathan Auxier theme song … probably because I was impossible to pick a rental with …
Ha. We must be sharing brainwaves again. I just sent ‘I Love My Boss’ to a co-worker (via Spotify) on Friday.