Hungry Hogs Hurting Homeowners; Laborers Fighting Back
Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere, you're probably familiar with the subprime mortgage crisis and the shock...
April 2008 Archives
April 30, 2008
April 25, 2008
"Take It Back"
Yesterday, the American Dream Candidate, Senator Barack Obama, stopped by the annual convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)...
April 22, 2008
"Negotiate Green"
Today is Earth Day, which makes this announcement from SEIU all the more timely: Just in time for Earth Day...
April 17, 2008
McCainonomics: More of the Same-onomics
Well, John McCain has finally seen fit to share his "plan" for revitalizing the American economy. He laid out...
April 15, 2008
Turns Out Presidenting IS Hard Work!
Today's Washington Post reports that just about everybody not actually named "Bush" thinks that the President has mishandled the...
April 14, 2008
DC Security Guards Win First-Ever Union Contract
Great news today from SEIU: D.C. City Council Members and clergy joined with Local 32BJ today to announce agreements...
April 11, 2008
There is No Place at the Table for Union-Busters
As I have documented in this space, despite the impression you may have gotten from the media coverage of Mark...
April 8, 2008
Mark Penn Thinks You Are Really Dumb
... dumb enough to believe that he has been fired from Hillary Clinton's campaign staff, when in fact he...
April 7, 2008
Mark Penn Still Has to Go
You may be wondering what our reaction is to this weekend's statement from the Hillary Clinton campaign regarding Mark...
April 4, 2008
Mark Penn Has to Go
Today's Wall Street Journal contains a fairly damning story about Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Senator Hillary Clinton's...
Why Are the Economists Always The Last Ones to Figure These Things Out?
Above: Economist Any working person could have told them this ages ago, but today the economists finally figured out...
Krug-Mondavi Workers Win New Contract
Good news from the United Farm Workers -- Nearly two years after being fired, Charles Krug-Mondavi workers back on job...
April 2, 2008
Score One for Common Sense
Last Thursday, I pointed out that Wal-Mart's treatment of Deborah Shank, a mother of three and ex-worker there who had...