Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere, you're probably familiar with the subprime mortgage crisis and the shock waves it's sending through the economy. The fallout so far has been severe: millions of working people are facing foreclosure,...
Yesterday, the American Dream Candidate, Senator Barack Obama, stopped by the annual convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) in his hometown of Chicago to share his thoughts on the role of unions in rebuilding the American Dream, and...
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Today is Earth Day, which makes this announcement from SEIU all the more timely: Just in time for Earth Day 2008, the 1.9 million member SEIU will launch its “Negotiate Green” initiative, a program that will utilize the union’s strong...
Well, John McCain has finally seen fit to share his "plan" for revitalizing the American economy. He laid out the details in a speech on Tuesday at Carnegie Mellon University. Unsurprisingly, it's just more of the same old George...
Today's Washington Post reports that just about everybody not actually named "Bush" thinks that the President has mishandled the economy: Seven in 10 Americans now give negative ratings to the president's stewardship of the sinking U.S. economy. Only 28...
Great news today from SEIU: D.C. City Council Members and clergy joined with Local 32BJ today to announce agreements with the four top private security contractors in Washington D.C. on 4-year contracts providing nearly 1,500 private security officers with...
As I have documented in this space, despite the impression you may have gotten from the media coverage of Mark Penn's fate, he continues to play an important leadership role in the Hillary Clinton campaign -- even after it was...
... dumb enough to believe that he has been fired from Hillary Clinton's campaign staff, when in fact he has just had his job title changed. I posted about this yesterday, of course, but since that post went live...
You may be wondering what our reaction is to this weekend's statement from the Hillary Clinton campaign regarding Mark Penn: After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as Chief...
Today's Wall Street Journal contains a fairly damning story about Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Senator Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign: Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral...
Above: Economist Any working person could have told them this ages ago, but today the economists finally figured out that we are indeed in a recession: The US economy has now been shedding jobs for three consecutive months, nearly...
Good news from the United Farm Workers -- Nearly two years after being fired, Charles Krug-Mondavi workers back on job and have new contract: Nearly two years after being fired from Napa Valley’s Charles Krug-Mondavi winery, 24 employees have been...
Last Thursday, I pointed out that Wal-Mart's treatment of Deborah Shank, a mother of three and ex-worker there who had been injured in a car accident and found herself being shaken down by the company for hundreds of thousands of...
