Netroots-Labor Solidarity: A Work in Progress
Netroots Nation shuns hotel over worker treatment, as bloggers and labor strenghen alliance"So all you skinny guys in this room needs to find a big guy and sit down and talk. And you big guys you need...
View ArticleToo Big Not to Organize - SEIU-International Coalition Try to Unionize the Banks
Through the blare of screeching feedback from portable translation headsets and microphones, unionized bank workers from Brazil, England, Chile, Germany, and Uruguay are encouraging American workers to...
View ArticleTea Party Pushes Back Against Anti Social Security K Street GOP
Daniel Webster is the former Florida State Senate Majority leader and a rising star within the GOP. The Republican National Committee handpicked him to run against progressive hero Congressman Alan...
View ArticleObama Catfood Commissioner Threatens Small Town with Nuclear Annihilation
A lot of attention recently has been focused on one of President Obama's top advisors on Social Security - Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) after he described Social Security as being"a milk cow with...
View ArticleNuclear Regulators Close Sections of WH Debt Commissioners' Uranium Facility...
When I originally wrote about Honeywell CEO David Cote threatening the safety of a small town by bringing in under-trained "scabs" (replacement workers )to run a uranium enrichment facility in...
View ArticleExplosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run By Scab Workers
Union workers have been locked out at the uranium enrichment facility in Metropolis, Illinois for two months now after contract negotiations broke down over Honeywell's demand that workers give up...
View ArticleWas the Mott's Strike "Victory" Really a Victory?
While organized labor spends close to $100 million to propel Democrats to victory in November, members of the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union/UFCW (RWDSU/UFCW) Local 220 on Monday won perhaps...
View ArticleSEIU Uses Financial Reform Legislation to Organize Bank Workers
One of the best kept secrets of the financial reform bill passed in July is tough whistleblower laws to protect bank workers who expose shady lending, credit card and fee practices. But do U.S. bank...
View ArticleUnion Protests Morgan Stanley's Role in Advocating Social Security Cuts
Today more than 150 members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) protested the deficit commission's proposed cuts to Social Security outside of the DC offices of Morgan...
View ArticleHow the Labor Movement Helped Me Overcome Aspergers Syndrome and Depression...
Monday, my eyes glistened with pride as I was watched 150 picketers storm the sidewalk in front of Morgan Stanley's Washington D.C. office. My union, United Electrical Workers (UE), had arrived. I grew...
View ArticleDid the October 2nd Rally Create Enough Leverage to Achieve "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs"?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Saturday, tens of thousands of people from all over the country -- perhaps 200,000 people -- stretched across the Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial in a quilt-like patchwork...
View ArticleRep. Gutierrez: ASFCME President McEntee is ‘Disgrace to the Labor Movement’
Late last week, AFSCME President Gerry McEntee endorsed former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in the Chicago Mayoral Election. McEntee told Politico, "If I lived in Chicago, I would vote for...
View ArticleJon Stewart Rally Represents Elitism, Consumerism, and Disrespect for the...
Many Jon Stewart followers see his "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Saturday as a progressive rallying cry. Stewart claims on his website it is not, saying, "If we had to sum up the political view of our...
View ArticleABC's Amanpour Refuses to Ask Honeywell CEO about Locked Out Workers as He...
Noted labor historian Joe Burns has called the lockout of 230 workers at the Honeywell uranium processing facility in Metropolis, IL - the highest profile ongoing labor dispute in the country right...
View ArticleI am Thankful for TSA Workers
TSA workers have one of the worst jobs in America. Reports and surveys by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General show morale among TSA workers is at record lows for the federal...
View ArticleThe Beinart Body Count on Iraq & Gun Control : Former New Republic Editor...
Earlier this year I witnessed a drive-by homicide in Northwest DC. There are few images that stick in my mind more than the moment I realized that the bright flashes coming from the car next to me were...
View ArticleArizona Gun Dealer Broke Law in Selling Guns to Men Who Could Not Pass...
For criminals, terrorists, and mentally unstable people buying a gun without a background check is easier than getting a driver’s license. Many of these people can buy guns at frequent gun shows were...
View ArticlePleasing Big Business, Obama Admin Blocks Two Workplace Safety Regulations
Last month, President Obama wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling for “a government-wide review of the rules already on the books to remove outdated regulations that stifle job creation and...
View ArticleThe "Pack" of Young DC Labor Journalists - The Shitkickers
A recent New York Times profile of several young male trend setting DC journalists known as the "Brat Pack" inspired Good Magazine Executive Editor Ann Friedman to write a piece on the "DC Lady Journo...
View ArticleWhy I am NOT Suing the Huffington Post by a "fired" HuffPost blogger
It might come as surprise to many, but as a labor journalist I feel that both Jonathan Tasini & Arianna Huffington are wrong in their current squabble over labor relations that has broken out as a...
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