Shilling on the Corporate Dollar
Share this postBusiness-sponsored ‘scholars’ deliver anti-union talking points. Testifying before the Senate labor and health committee hearing in March, economist Anne Layne-Farrar of the corporate...
View ArticleIn Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.: Let’s Protect Worker’s Rights
Share this postMartin Luther King Jr. will always be revered as one of the greatest civil rights leaders in America and the world. Most people know King died in Memphis, but did you know that he died...
View ArticleMiddle Class Task Force Addresses Child Care, College Costs, Retirement Security
Share this postThe White House Task Force on the Middle Class today announced several initiatives it says will help middle-class families afford soaring child care costs, care for their aging...
View ArticleU.S. Chamber’s “Card Check Compromise” Poll Compromises the Facts
Share this postYesterday, the U.S. Chamber released a “nationwide poll,” which claimed to reveal the public’s fears about how the “Employee Free Choice Act” would hurt job growth. If the Chamber really...
View Article‘Undercover Boss’: A Fairy Tale That Ignores Grim Reality
Share this postAs kids, we all loved the sugar-coated fairy tales of handsome and brave princes rescuing beautiful princesses from despotic kings. The new CBS “reality” show “Undercover Boss” that...
View ArticleWhy Taking on Blanche Lincoln Was the Right Call
Share this postChallenges within the primaries allow us to define what it means to be a real Democrat—to insist that the party truly puts the interests of working people first. That’s what makes...
View ArticleSocial Forum Focuses on Workers’ Issues
Share this postWorkers’ issues were the focus of five days of marches, rallies and workshops at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, which ended over the weekend. Grassroots activists and progressives...
View ArticleIgnoring Courts, Arizona Gov. and Legislature Move Anti-Union Measure
Share this postLast week, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s July ruling that a proposed state constitutional amendment that sought to restrict how workers can vote in union...
View ArticleYoung Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents
Share this post So much for the economic independence that’s supposed to come with young adulthood. But when unemployment among young men workers is the highest it’s been in 61 years, as noted by New...
View ArticleForget Elections—Labor Needs To Get Back to Its Roots
Share this postWith the midterms behind us, we have Nov. 4, 2020, to look forward to—labor’s next morning after. On Nov. 5, 2008, we were euphoric and full of delusional hope over the imminent passage...
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