Labor Day 2007: New Hope for the American Dream
CtW Chair Anna Burger's statement for Labor Day 2007: Over the past year, Change to Win has asked workers in...
August 2007 Archives
August 31, 2007
CEO Pay Calculator Needs An Upgrade
When we created the CEO pay calculator last year, average CEO pay was 262 times the pay of the...
"These Days, It's Katrina All the Time"
Today's Krugman column in the NYTimes is another brilliant, scathing indictment of the Bush Administration. On the second anniversary...
August 29, 2007
New Census Report: Income Stagnant, Health Coverage Declining
Yesterday, the Census Bureau released the latest edition of their Current Population Survey, titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage...
August 27, 2007
The Union Advantage on Health Coverage
Here's a statement that you will probably consider uncontroversial: "The less that people have to pay out of their own pockets...
August 24, 2007
"It was like a drug raid"
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials say everything was "done by the book" when federal agents stormed the home...
August 22, 2007
Missing the Point
You know, if you're looking for a laugh, the "blog" over at the Center for Union "Facts" has really...
Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?
In his column in today's Washington Post, Harold Myerson describes the Bush Administration's disdainful attitude towards expanding children's health...
August 21, 2007
America is at the Tipping Point
When Change to Win’s first American Dream survey was released in September 2006 and showed that the vast majority of...
August 20, 2007
Winners and Losers in the Mortgage Meltdown
The chickens have come home to roost on the speculative Bush economy - an economy built on massive amounts of...
August 17, 2007
OSHA Slaps Cintas With Historic Fine for Workplace Safety Violations
Back in March, we told you about the tragic fate of Eleazar Torres-Gomez, a worker at a Cintas laundry facility...
August 16, 2007
Didn't We Figure This Out, Like, 100 Years Ago?
From yesterday's New York Times: "Many customers are running out of money at the end of the month," said H....
"Work is Not a Crime. Workers Are Not Criminals"
Some voices from today's UFCW-organized meeting on ICE's abuses of power: Mike Graves, worker at a plant raided by ICE...
We Are All America
The UFCW is standing up for the rights of workers everywhere in the face of increasingly aggressive and harassing tactics by the agents of...
August 9, 2007
Techies and Teamsters Together
This is super cool -- the first real fruit to come from the alliance of Techies and Teamsters at the...
Republican Presidential Candidate Suffers Temporary Bout of Sanity
At this week's debate for Democratic Presidential candidates organized by the AFL-CIO, retired steelworker Steve Skvara described how his pension...
August 8, 2007
Labor Linkage for August 8, 2007
Kos and Hoffa: How the Netroots and the Dem Party Can Win Allying with Others (TomP at DailyKos) YearlyKos:...
Dirty Laundry
Cintas Corp., a uniform and laundry services company, has a history of breaking the law and violating workers' rights. In...
August 7, 2007
Yearly Kos: The Rest
And now, the rest of my miscellaneous impressions from Yearly Kos... DNC Chair Governor Howard Dean's keynote on the first...
Yearly Kos: CtW Leaders Meet the Netroots
I wasn't the only person from Change to Win who made it to Yearly Kos -- some of the leaders...
August 6, 2007
Yearly Kos: Labor and the Netroots
The next issue I'd like to address from Yearly Kos is a broader one that I think deserves some attention and...
Yearly Kos: Presidenting is Hard Work
So I spent the better part of last week at the Yearly Kos Convention in Chicago, hanging out with the...
Pictures From YearlyKos
I spent the better part of last week at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, confabb-ing with the progressive netroots. I've...
August 2, 2007
In the Name of Big Tobacco, Republican Lawmakers Oppose Health Care for Poor Children
SCHIP Passes House; Bush still threatens veto. Five million children of the working poor who would otherwise have no...