I Didn't Think Even John McCain Was This Dumb
… but apparently he is dumb enough to be considering Frederick Smith, CEO of FedEx and a notorious union-buster,for...
July 2008 Archives
July 31, 2008
July 30, 2008
Teamsters and Turtles
I told you a few days ago about Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa’s landmark announcement that the Teamsters were rejecting...
July 29, 2008
Video: Growing the American Dream Movement
Well, I promised you that I would post the video of our Netroots Nation panel when it became available, and...
Fines Are Not Enough: American Workers Need Protection from Combustible Dust
Last week’s announcement that OSHA was seeking an enormous fine from Imperial Sugar for their actions leading to the explosion...
July 28, 2008
There Are More Dunder-Mifflins Out There Than You Think
Ezra Klein has a great post up today showing how you much you can learn about the value of...
July 25, 2008
OSHA Proposes Massive Fine for Combustible Dust Explosion
Ever since the Imperial Sugar plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia, was destroyed in a massive blast caused by “combustible dust”...
Labor Linkage for Friday, July 25
Seen around the Web today… On Daily Kos, diarist TomP asks “how many farmworkers must die before somebody cares?” The...
Faces of Employee Free Choice: Manuel Zuniga, Jr.
Today’s face of employee free choice is Manuel Zuniga, Jr. of Pittsburgh, PA, seen here with his beautiful family: I...
July 24, 2008
Faces of Employee Free Choice: Shane Holman
Today’s face of employee free choice is Shane Holman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi: I asked Shane why he supports the Employee...
Hoffa Rejects 'Drilling Our Way Out' of Energy Crisis
Big news from the Teamsters — yesterday General President Jim Hoffa announced a major shift in that union’s direction...
July 23, 2008
Dept. of News Most of Us Had Already Figured Out
Above: Wall Street Journal Editor The Wall Street Journal discovers today (!) that eight years of Bushonomics have been...
Priorities
I’ve written before about the Bush Labor Department’s glacial pace when it comes to taking action to protect workers’ health...
Faces of Employee Free Choice: Erin Harris
Today’s face of Employee Free Choice is Erin Harris of Albuquerque, New Mexico: I asked Erin why she joined the...
July 22, 2008
Faces of Employee Free Choice: Harold Appel
Meet our next face of Employee Free Choice — Dr. Harold Appel of New York City: I asked Dr. Appel...
July 21, 2008
Faces of Employee Free Choice: Ben Karnitschnig
The One Million Strong for Employee Free Choice campaign is rolling on, and the response has been tremendous — more...
July 18, 2008
Take Back Labor Day
One of the things people have been talking about here at Netroots Nation is how they can take concrete...
Watch Our Netroots Nation Panel LIVE!
Hey everybody… I’m at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, TX today and our panel, “Growing the American Dream Movement”,...
July 16, 2008
ANOTHER Farmworker Felled by Heat
Thankfully this isn’t a report of another death, but it’s nearly as bad: Heat puts farm worker on breathing machine...
July 11, 2008
Two More Farmworkers Killed by Heat
On June 2, I wrote about “The Short Life and Preventable Death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez” — a teenage...
Labor and the Netroots
Over at Talking Points Memo’s sister site TPMCafe, Nathan Newman is challenging the online progressive left — the “netroots” —...
July 9, 2008
Why Does John McCain Hate Social Security?
In Denver on Monday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said that it was an “absolute disgrace” that Social Security taxes...
July 8, 2008
Think You're One in a Million? Here's Your Chance to Prove It
If you’re reading this blog, you know that the American Dream is slipping further out of reach of millions...
July 3, 2008
Party Like It's 1929
The Labor Department reported today that June saw the sixth straight month of job losses in America: Employers trimmed...
July 2, 2008
Circuit City Buyout Falls Through
Looks like we may have Circuit City to kick around for a while longer! Faithful readers of CtW Connect...
July 1, 2008
McCain Loves "Free" Trade. Rest of America, Not So Much
As John McCain prepares to fly to Colombia — the country where standing up for your rights at work...