Posts Tagged ‘unions’

Rank-and-File Economics | 9/11 | Ponzi | Floods

(1) Rank-and-File Economics:  I have just posted the cover story from our Sept/Oct 2011 Annual Labor Issue, Rank-and-File Economics: Fighting for a Wage- and Job-Led Recovery, by Katherine Sciacchitano.  This is a great article–I hope it gets wide circulation.  (I’m working on that now–submitting it to the news aggregators; you can help by linking to ...Read more.

Jobs Report, Murdoch and Unions, etc.

(1) BLS July Jobs Report: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Employment Situation Summary today, and it is pretty dismal. Total non-farm payroll employment rose by a mere 117,000. Though the unemployment rate went down ever so slightly, in fact the percentage of people employed is at a new low, according to Dean Baker ...Read more.

Satan Sandwich; Boeing; Meteorologists

(1) Debt Deal as a “Satan Sandwich”: As Vishay Prashad reports in a good article on the debt “crisis” and deal in Counterpunch, Emanuel Cleaver, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the deal to lift the debt-ceiling a “sugar-coated Satan Sandwich.”  Indeed. (We know what he really wanted to call it.) We just posted ...Read more.

Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C., and more

(1) NPA Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C. From today’s Democracy Now!: Activists Shut Down Bank of America Branch in D.C. in Tax Protest In Washington, D.C., 600 activists with National People’s Action shut down a branch of Bank of America Monday to protest the bank’s record of dodging taxes. National People’s Action recently ...Read more.

Steve Early talk in Cambridge, Tuesday 3/1

Steve Early speaks about “Capital’s War on Labor, Labor’s Civil Wars” Tuesday, March 1, 7 to 8:30 PM @ Porter Square Books 25 White St. * Cambridge, Mass. 02140 * (Located in mall across from Porter Square Stop on the Red Line). Come to the after-party for special guest Sal Rosselli, president of the new ...Read more.

Obama’s Budget; Wisconsin

(1) Obama’s Budget: Our trustworthy source for analysis of Obama’s 2012 budget proposal:  The National Priorities Project: Presidents Budget 2012: Values By The Numbers Feb. 18, 2011 National Priorities Project offers four detailed analyses of President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2012 focused on: expenditures, revenue and deficits, the impact of federal spending ...Read more.

Wisconsin, Tim DeChristopher, etc.

(1) Protests in Wisconsin against Republican Threats to Labor: Earlier today I spoke with Roger Bybee, who’s written articles for D&S over the years, often on labor-related topics, about the situation in Wisconsin, where the new Republican governor, Scott Walker, has been busy blaming unionized public-sector workers for the state’s budget woes.  The latest gambit ...Read more.

Obama’s PATCO; the Fed’s Wikileaks; Jobs

(1) Obama’s PATCO? Is the Federal Pay Freeze Obama’s PATCO? asks Mike Elk at In These Times‘s labor blog Working In These Times. “The Obama Administration, looking to bolster its deficit-cutting credentials and show its desire to take on what some label a “special interest”—organized labor—yesterday announced a two-year freeze on the wages of all ...Read more.

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