Working Life

Last month, I argued that the fastest way to deal with the trade deficit with China was to bring down the value of the dollar, rather than play political chicken with the Chinese government. At least the folks at the Economic Policy Institute agree with me: The optimal policy solution to this imbalance is a […]

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I thought it was disgraceful for Andrew Young to agree to become a shill for Wal-Mart. Now, as reported by the the Atlanta Journal-Constitution yesterday, some of his former civil rights compatriots are going public with their own criticism of Young’s making common cause with one of the worst corporate violators of civil rights, womens’ […]

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Yesterday, Roger Toussaint, the president of the TWU Local 100 in New York City, was delivered to jail with a rousing march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Who knows what this will mean down the road. Maybe the memory of the march of 1,200 people will fade with time–or maybe people will look back at it […]

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Today, Roger Toussaint, the president of the transport workers union, begins his ten-day jail sentence in the infamous Tombs in NYC. Yours truly will be among a large crowd of unionists who will gather in Brooklyn and march with Touissaint across the Brooklyn Bridge. John Sweeney, the president of the AFL-CIO, will apparently also be […]

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I’m just wondering today about November: if the Democrats don’t take back the Congress, will someone fire Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel? I know the answer is, of course, no because the Democratic Party power-that-be are all about making sure that those who have power hold on to it–no matter what. This party […]

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There’s been a lot of speculation and anticipation and criticism, all rolled into one, about the plans of Change To Win. Well, wait no longer for the first shot out of the box. This coming week, CTW will launch its campaign–previously discussed–called “Make Work Pay. And you can be the first one to see the […]

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It’s been an interesting development to watch: John Edwards has decided that his potential path to the White House can be paved by embracing the notion that workers deserve and need unions–unlike most of the other possible contenders out there who look at union organizing as almost a permanent affliction that needs to be tolerated […]

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To this day, Neil Young is part of my music listening probably every week. Lots of reasons. But, as you may have read, he’s got a new album about to come out that is strongly anti-war and anti-Bush. Check out initial lyrics.

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That will get your attention. The MSM are all in a twist today that world trade talks may be dead for the rest of the Bush Administration. It certainly wasn’t the intention of this miserable Administration to give working people around the world a breather from the relentless assault of so-called “free trade.” But, we’ll […]

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All the major New York City news outlets are reporting a judge’s decision to hit Local 100 of the Transit Workers Union with a $2.5 million fine for the three-day strike last December. Worse, the judge has ordered a suspension of the union’s ability to automatically collect union dues through payroll deductions. As any union […]

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