Colombian Workers Speak Out Against Colombia FTA
Paramilitary death squads in Colombia have systematically assassinated thousands of workers over the past twenty years for attempting to organize...
Posts by Greg Tarpinian
May 13, 2008
March 17, 2008
War Is Economic Policy
One of the great myths of this election is that there is a distinction between national security and economic policy....
November 2, 2007
Bush Board Launches Massive New Assault on Workers
With its term coming to an end, the Bush Administration's craven fealty to the most extreme interests of corporate America...
September 13, 2007
Unions Boost Productivity
Unions bring higher wages and better benefits to the workers they represent, but they also bring increased productivity to employers...
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...
July 24, 2007
"Pretend" Benefits
Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" made the point that it was not focusing on the uninsured, but on those "who have...
July 10, 2007
"Sicko" Shows America's Shame
We live in a country where a rich man's dog receives better medical care than millions of our citizens. "Sicko,"...
July 5, 2007
Ask No Questions And Hear No Lies: CEO Pay in Plain English
American Eagle Outfitters paid its CEO a whopping $15.3 million in 2006, according to a May 1st proxy statement, or...
June 26, 2007
The Private Equity Tax Rip-Off
Where could the U.S. government come up with the money to lift up those Americans hurt most by the rapidly...
June 12, 2007
A Follow-Up
Robert Senser raises two points in his comment in response to my post “(Union) Made in China: The Tag Corporate...
June 6, 2007
(Union) Made in China: The Tag Corporate America Doesn't Want You to See
Multinational corporations have been roaming the globe in a race to the bottom, competing solely on which can pay their...
June 1, 2007
The Question Isn't Why We Went to China -- It's Why Wouldn't We?
There’s no question as to why the modern labor movement would need to pay attention to China. Every major U.S....
May 8, 2007
The $8,812 Missing from Your Wallet
Profits for Fortune 500 companies rose 29 percent in 2006 to $785 billion, the highest in half a century. Median...
April 24, 2007
Unions: the Answer to Rising Income Inequality
It’s difficult to comprehend an economy where a corporate executive leaves his office every night wearing a watch that cost...
April 16, 2007
There Is A War On The Middle Class
Last month, the New York Times’ David Cay Johnston reported the extraordinary fact that, in 2005, the top 1 percent...
April 11, 2007
What Do Workers Know?
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported job growth of 180,000 in March, the business press and the Bush administration...