Labor Lines

Reluctant as we have always been to air dirty union laundry, the turmoil at Suffolk County’s AME is no secret. Newsday recently had an extensive article exploring the positions taken by several of the factions in an upcoming union election. We’ll speak with embattled Union President Dan Farrell to give him an opportunity to respond to the allegations swirling about.  After all the $60,000 question asked by many within labor circles of late has been “what the heck is going on with AME?” We’ll get the incumbent’s perspective, and it’s not pretty.   Discrimination in the workplace is a lose-lose proposition. Potentially great workers  lose good job opportunities for which they may be more than capable. Employers lose potential talent that could possibly take them to the next level. More lamentable is how creative discrimination is becoming. Corporations increasingly use credit ratings to guide their hiring decisions, a strategy that tends to disparately im