So, here’s the dishonor roll of the pathetic 18 Democrats who voted for the bankruptcy bill. No one should give a dime to these DINOs (Democrats In Name Only). Geez, even Joe “Can I Hug You George” Lieberman voted against it: Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Byrd (D-WV) Carper (D-DE) Conrad (D-ND) […]
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Pension Power and China
Posted on 11 March 2005.
Pension power and China on my mind this morning. On pension, kudos to Bill Patterson and his band of pension-fund activists at the AFL-CIO. They forced Waddell & Reed, a Kansas-based financial services firm, to pull out of the business-funded (ready for an Orwellian-sounding title) Alliance for Worker Retirement Security (AWRS), the coalition pouring millions […]
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Canadians Fine Wal-Mart
Posted on 10 March 2005.
I think this one got under the radar screen and wasn’t picked up by the media here or in Canada but the Beast of Bentonville got slapped by the Canadians a few weeks ago. Here’s the press release from Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board: Wal-Mart to pay fines totalling $500,000 for multiple Workplace Safety […]
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Live from Bangalore!
Posted on 10 March 2005.
Welcome to the age of Remote Control Journalism—that’s what Pete Szekely, who is the chairman of the Reuters unit of the Newspaper Guild, calls the news we’re going to get from sources like Reuters. I ran into Pete yesterday. He reminded me of an important development that’s worth updating: Reuters is moving a number of […]
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A Third Way?
Posted on 09 March 2005.
A couple of days ago, this message arrived, commenting on my dispatches from Las Vegas. It’s from Greg Junemann, President of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, which has 75,000 members. In his message, his reference to the “five unions” is to the rebel group that has united around a set of principles […]
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CAFTA and the States
Posted on 08 March 2005.
I’m taking a brief break here from the goings-on at the AFL-CIO to raise the specter of the looming Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). For some time, I’ve referred to CAFTA-like deals as so-called “free trade” deals because they have little to do with the theory of free trade and a whole lot more […]
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Checking the Numbers
Posted on 07 March 2005.
A couple of days ago, I posted a note from the president of the Communications Workers of America, Morty Bahr, who questioned my assertion—and that of others—that the rebel unions accounted for 40 percent of the votes of AFL-CIO unions. Morty asserted that the rebels only accounted for 30 percent of the per capita votes—the […]
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A Day of Rest
Posted on 06 March 2005.
I’ve declared a day of rest–Saturday–to clean out the lungs and cobwebs.
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Morty Writes
Posted on 05 March 2005.
In route back to NYC (with a little stop over at O’Hare…letting my lungs recover from the casino smoke) and I got a little note from Morty Bahr, president of CWA: “Your message is misleading….by per capita vote, they garnered less than 30 percent.” Morty was referring to my previous assertion that “they” (meaning the […]
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Showdown in Vegas: It’s A Wrap
Posted on 04 March 2005.
The AFL-CIO meeting wrapped up late this morning, Vegas time—and with some last minute fireworks between SEIU’s Andy Stern and AFSCME’s Gerry McEntee. Stern distributed a resolution entitled “Resolution to Enforce Mutual Accountability in the Labor Movement’s Campaign for Freedom of Workers to Choose a Voice At Work.” (Okay, not the most Hemingwayesque formulation). The […]
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