Working Life

    Building union support in any workplace is a tough road, certainly given the intense anti-union activity on the part of employers. Given the state of the labor movement–small and almost invisible, how do you get the numbers you need to build the labor movement into a large presence?      One approach is to build […]

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    Building union support in any workplace is a tough road, certainly given the intense anti-union activity on the part of employers. Given the state of the labor movement–small and almost invisible, how do you get the numbers you need to build the labor movement into a large presence?      One approach is to build […]

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    Use caution…no I’m not referring to those of you who are celebrating the Giants AMAZING win (hey, I’m a New Yorker) nor am I suggesting you be wary of the polls about Super Tuesday (this is worth reading). But, we should be cautious about believing that the strike by the Writers Guild of America […]

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    Use caution…no I’m not referring to those of you who are celebrating the Giants AMAZING win (hey, I’m a New Yorker) nor am I suggesting you be wary of the polls about Super Tuesday (this is worth reading). But, we should be cautious about believing that the strike by the Writers Guild of America […]

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    It never ends. The Beast of Bentonville is now after kids in Mexico.     The folks at Wal-Mart Watch are working on this. And there was a story in Newsweek.     I wonder: would the Waltons of Wal-Mart do this to their children, grandkids, nieces or cousins? Or is just too easy to exploit […]

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    It never ends. The Beast of Bentonville is now after kids in Mexico.     The folks at Wal-Mart Watch are working on this. And there was a story in Newsweek.     I wonder: would the Waltons of Wal-Mart do this to their children, grandkids, nieces or cousins? Or is just too easy to exploit […]

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    One interesting aspect–and an important one that has gotten very little coverage in the media (please put links to anything you see in the Comments section)–is what happens now to the labor support that John Edwards had. I suspect that  the campaigns of both Sens. Clinton and Obama are working the phones hard to […]

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    One interesting aspect–and an important one that has gotten very little coverage in the media (please put links to anything you see in the Comments section)–is what happens now to the labor support that John Edwards had. I suspect that  the campaigns of both Sens. Clinton and Obama are working the phones hard to […]

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    So, John Edwards is dropping out of the presidential race. From trade to an ability to really talk about unions and on whole lots of other issues, Edwards shaped the Democratic presidential debate.     The question is: what now? I’m hoping that he becomes the Al Gore of economic struggles. Gore rose dramatically in […]

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    So, John Edwards is dropping out of the presidential race. From trade to an ability to really talk about unions and on whole lots of other issues, Edwards shaped the Democratic presidential debate.     The question is: what now? I’m hoping that he becomes the Al Gore of economic struggles. Gore rose dramatically in […]

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