A couple of days, I posted about Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott’s blog. Well,if you’re really interested, you can read the complete thoughts of Lee (will Wal-Mart sell the paperback and movie?) from 2004, 2005 and 2006.
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Ludlow in Trouble?
Posted on 18 February 2006.
This is a very distressing story out of Los Angeles: L.A. County Labor Chief May Quit in Funds ProbeBy Patrick McGreevy and Steve Hymon, Times Staff Writers Former Los Angeles City Councilman Martin Ludlow is considering stepping down as head of an influential and politically active labor group and is weighing a plea bargain with […]
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Wal-Mart, NEA and China
Posted on 18 February 2006.
Let me check in on a few things to clean the plate here. On the deal made to allow chapters of the National Education Association (NEA) to affiliate directly with local AFL-CIO bodies even though the NEA as a whole remains outside of the AFL-CIO, sure, this is a harmless and potentially good thing. I […]
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Why Skills Is A Sideshow
Posted on 17 February 2006.
Over the past few years, here and in other places, I’ve repeatedly argued that we are being fooled and mislead. Okay, that’s true in many arenas but today I’m referring to the mantra that we’ve heard from Republicans and Democrats alike that the solution to competing in the “global economy” is for people to get […]
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Laborers Kick Off New Alliance
Posted on 16 February 2006.
The Laborers International and the Operating Engineers announced that they were leaving the AFL-CIO’s Building Trades Department to form a new construction trades alliance called the National Construction Alliance. I had written that the Laborers were going to leave the AFL-CIO–but, at least, on the timing, I jumped the gun. But, Laborers president Terry O-Sullivan […]
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The Sham Center for Union Facts
Posted on 15 February 2006.
You may have noticed, for those of you who read the national press, that a new organization popped up called the “Center For Union Facts.” On the one hand, it’s actually quite a lame operation–and you have to chuckle at the stereotypes it tries to promote. And, you have to question any operation that features […]
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Towns Has A Challenger
Posted on 13 February 2006.
Back in September, I wrote about Two-Faced Towns: Rep. Ed Towns of New York (Brooklyn) who became one of the 15 so-called Democrats who voted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement. We honored him by inducting him into the CAFTA 15 project. And now Towns has one declared primary opponent: City Councilman Charles Barron. […]
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Snow, Snow, Snow
Posted on 13 February 2006.
Everyone’s seen the pictures but why should I be different–let me tell you, the snow was a lot less dangerous than standing twenty feet from Dick Cheney.
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Laborers Finally Leaving?
Posted on 13 February 2006.
I heard a rumor on Friday that the Laborers International will pull out of the AFL-CIO on Monday (tomorrow). For those of you with long memories–say, going back to August–you may remember that the Laborers had decided to keep a foot in both federations: joining up with Change To Win but remaining in the AFL-CIO. […]
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Here Come “The Isolationists”
Posted on 12 February 2006.
Strap yourself in because we may be in for a new wave of rhetoric that tries to tar some of us as…egads…”isolationists.” That’s a term that is used by people who favor so-called “free trade” as a way of discrediting the opposition. The February 11th issue of The Economist has a piece entitled “The isolationist […]
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