Union Workers Turn Against Organized Labor

As organized labor loses leverage in a race-to-the-bottom global market, some workers are becoming so disillusioned by what their unions can, or rather can’t, do for them that they want out. The disaffected include dozens of machinists at Caterpillar...

How Retirement Benefits May Sink Illinois

We’re national news again. …  Indiana’s debt for unfunded retiree health-care benefits, for example, amounts to just $81 per person. Neighboring Illinois’s accumulated obligations for the same benefit average $3,399 per person. Illinois is an...

Chicago Business Round-Up

Cruising the local business section I found the following: Caterpillar Opening Facility in Mexico Peoria-based Caterpillar said Friday it is building a parts distribution center in Mexico that will employ up to 150 people.  … The 500,000-square-foot facility...