On Wednesday, January 26th the Indiana House of Representatives passed its version of a “Right-to-Work” bill, which would give its workers the right to choose to be in a union and pay dues, or to refrain from joining the union and paying dues. The Indiana Senate had already passed a virtually identical version of the bill. The two will be reconciled and then a final version will go to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who is expected to sign it next week. Right-to-Work, regardless of one’s position on it, is a deeply political issue involving union power; since Michigan is a neighboring state that issue will now flow north to Lansing.

Are you in the Sandwich Generation? Do you care if you are?

If you answered “yes” to the first question, it is because you have children and you have living parents who probably do not work. Demographically, you are probably either a younger Baby Boomer or an older Gen X’er. You could be either male or female, but if you are female you may see yourself as a member of the “Sandwich Generation” a little more readily than your male colleagues do.