Poll: Americans Remain Broadly Supportive Of Labor Unions
Americans remain broadly supportive of labor unions, as they have been over the past seven decades, including a 59% approval rating for unions in Gall...
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Why Liberals Need Labor: The Upcoming Battle over Labor Law Reform
Peter Dreier | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
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The U.S. has the most inequality and poverty of any industrialized country. And it's no coincidence that the U.S. has, by far, the fewest workers covered by a union contract among all major affluent nations.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About EFCA (But Were Afraid To Ask)
ZP Heller | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business
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We're so close to passing the Employee Free Choice Act that we must dispel the last-minute attempts by anti-labor politicians to quash our efforts of standing up for working people.
Was Marx Right? The Bailout and the Auto Industry
Howard Schweber | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
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We need a bailout of the auto industry to give the new contracts and the new automotive products a chance. And then we need to address the larger question about the auto industry, and about American industry in general.
Working People and Good Jobs are the Foundation of Our Economy, Not the Problem
Terence M. O'Sullivan | Posted 11.26.2008 | Business
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Even more disturbing than the inaccuracy of the attacks against working people is the premise on which they are based.
John Edwards for Labor Secretary
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
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Since Edwards left the race, how many times have we heard the word "poverty" uttered, much less had a national debate about poverty?
Smart Ways to a Bailout -- Step 1: Stop Demonizing the UAW
Art Levine | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
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You've probably heard claims about those inefficient UAW members supposedly making $70 an hour, including benefits, making unions the prime culprit in the failures of the Big 3 automakers. But it's all a big lie.
What to Do With Detroit?
The Real News | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
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"Governments around the world have always been proactive in growing and nurturing industries like the auto industry. In North America for the last couple of decades, we haven't done that."
Comments About the Looming SAG Strike
Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business
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The appointment of a mediator will not help one teeny weenie little bit. The actors want "more money" and the production companies are unwilling to give it to them. Simple isn't it?
Will Henry Paulson Sink Detroit?
Dean Baker | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business
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Mr. Paulson now stands to gain lasting notoriety as the person who destroyed the domestic U.S. auto industry, and the economies of the Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana along with them.
It's Time to Give Voters the Liberalism They Want
Thomas Frank | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
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It is possible, I suppose, that the pundits are right and the public didn't really mean it when it elected a liberal Democrat president and gave Democrats even larger majorities in both houses of Congress.
Big Media: Screw the Auto Workers
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business
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Memo to the media: you want to see the auto industry go down? Fine. But, at least try to give the facts about the cuts, concessions and job losses that workers have taken on in a bid to save their livelihoods.
America Needs a Strong, Unionized Auto Industry -- That Requires Government Action
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
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If we allow the unionized American automobile industry to collapse, we will accelerate the reduction of middle class incomes for everyone. That collapse would start a tidal wave of lower wages.
Playing Offense for the Employee Free Choice Act
Mary Beth Maxwell | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home
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This week, American Rights at Work launched a substantial nationwide television ad campaign. It emphasizes the fact that far too often, CEOs won't wil...
On November 4th, Workers Won, Corporate Interests Lost
David Bonior | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
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Our new pro-worker Congress is significant in light of how big business front groups tried -- and failed -- to use the Employee Free Choice Act as a wedge issue.
Obama Win Emboldens Unions
Crain's Chicago Business | Mike Colias | Posted 11.05.2008 | Chicago
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Unions are planning aggressive organizing drives at Chicago-area hospitals in the wake of Tuesday's election of Barack Obama, a close ally of organize...
Chamber of Commerce Hopes to Avoid Employee Free Choice Act
The Real News | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
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Ensuring a Republican majority in the Senate would mean potential blockage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that gives workers additional rights with respect to unions.
GOTV in North Carolina: Labor Takes a Lead
Elana Levin | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
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Last week one of the Change to Win volunteers was outside a polling place and a woman in line called out her name. "Erin! I'm in line here to vote because of you!"
A Real Solution for America's Struggling Middle Class
Mary Beth Maxwell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
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Throughout this historic campaign season, the economy has without a doubt been the most dominant issue on the minds of American voters. Once the turbu...
Boeing Workers End Strike, Return To Work
AP | RORY MARSHALL | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business
SEATTLE — Boeing Co. production workers began returning Sunday night to the factories where they build jetliners, one day after they voted to en...
Truck the GAP: Jeff the Trucker is a Better Symbol of America's Workers
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home
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Forget Joe the Plumber. One of America's real working class heroes is Jeff the truck driver. Jeff Wallace, 43, has been on the picket lines for si...
In Praise of Canvassing: It's Not Too Late to Volunteer
Bruce Raynor | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
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Going to a person's home and talking with them is one of the most meaningful things progressives can do.
The Washington Post Only Supports Bailouts for Robert Rubin, Not Autoworkers
Dean Baker | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business
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The Post was near hysterical in its support of the Wall Street bailout earlier this month. Now the occasion comes to bail out the auto industry and the Post goes ballistic the other way.
It's About the Students, Stupid!
Marc Lampkin | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
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When was the last time a teachers' union sued to demand higher academic standards? When has a teachers' union ever demanded more accountability in our classrooms?
THE WORLD IS COUNTING ON US
Stewart Acuff | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
I am just returning to the U.S. from two days of meetings in London. The meetings were part of our work to globalize our organizing, to globalize our...
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Gallup | Jeffrey M. Jones | Posted 12.02.2008 | Business