Toyota to Texas: It’s About Climate — Business Not Weather
Toyota is moving a big piece of its U.S. headquarters from California to Texas and Fritz Hitchcock, past chairman of the California Chamber of Commerce and owner of three Toyota dealerships thinks he knows why. “Thank you Mary Nichols (chairwoman of the Air Resources Board) for the (excessive and expensive) environmental regulations in California, thank […]
New Alligators in the Litigation Swamp
The litigation swamp for California employers would get even muckier if the Legislature approves a bill to allow employees to file unlimited liens over unproven pay disputes. Up today in the Assembly Judiciary Committee, this bill should be titled the Permission to Harass Employers Act of 2014. It’s a sad fact that California has the […]
Donald Sterling, A Relic Of The Past
How far back must we go before we realize that the shame of our past is now staring us in the face today? In a time when we witnessed the Supreme Court put forward the same states’ rights argument for access to education as the slave states of the past did for slavery. In a […]
Reputation Defender: The LA Office of the NAACP
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is expected to face suspension or more from the NBA at a press conference at 11 a.m. today (Pacific time) in the league’s New York office. Sorry, but I can’t believe the tone-deafness of people of some on the right who see this as much ado about nothing. He’s […]
IBEW Union Boss d’Arcy to City: Drop Dead
As expected, Union Boss Brian d’Arcy, the business manager of IBEW Local 18 that represents over 90% of the workers at our Department of Water and Power, has refused to come clean over the use of more than $40 million of Ratepayer money that was funneled to the Joint Safety and Training Institutes since 2000 […]