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 ...

Chided the trainmaster: “What do you want—featherbeds?” Since then, featherbedding—the purposeful slowing down or spreading out of work to make jobs—has become one of the most emotion ...

The railroads, battered by competition from trucks, buses and planes, have fought to cut jobs still more and in 1959 launched an all-out publicity attack on the “featherbedding,” which they ...

It’s a scenario we’ve seen too many times in Massachusetts: The use of political clout to institutionalize featherbedding by forcing everyone in an industry to play by union rules. Unions ...

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 ...

Rebuilding the economy after the pandemic ends also will be more difficult if state and local governments have to abide by featherbedding and other artificial union mandates. Public ...

The negotiating teams representing employers released a statement Saturday accusing the union of “featherbedding.” “Harbor employers and Local 63 OCU continued negotiations through the day ...

More than four decades of success in lowering tariffs and curbing taxpayer-funded industry featherbedding looks set to be cast aside because of the Turnbull government's decision to build $50 ...