Working Life

Please, put out a red alert. Andrew Cuomo has been kidnapped. The man who occupies the governor’s office is a body double. Seriously, where has the guy gone who was a shill for big business, a guy who took pleasure attacking unions and seemed to like only tax breaks for the wealthy? The guy who […]

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This is not really surprising. We know this: the rich shape tax policies that help them pocket billions. But, this story in The New York Times raises that issue again (and I can’t help also point out that this is the very newspaper that also has advanced that rip-off by flogging for so-called “free trade” […]

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Fuck those idiots at the Fed. Tools of Wall Street, the bond market and the rest of the pieces of crap that have savaged Americans. You hike interests rates for no economic reason other than some clamor from the very elites who just need to soak regular Americans even more. Bernie (from his Senate website […]

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f you want to know why a political revolution is necessary (and why the status quo’s most intellectually fraudulent campaign in recent Democratic primaries is such a threat to working people), you need only check out this new report from our friends at the Economic Policy Institute. Wal-Mart (that would be the board the status […]

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From the campaign: Campaign manager Jeff Weaver issued the following statement on Tuesday after the Working Families Party board voted to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for president: “Bernie has devoted his career to helping working families and is gratified by the support of the Working Families Party. Together they will work to take on the […]

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Bernie is about to address the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in New Hampshire. A flavor: We began this campaign seven months ago. We had no organization, no money, very little national name recognition and were at 3 percent in the polls. Today, we have hundreds of thousands of volunteers in every state in the country, including some […]

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I was on the road for ten days in Iowa and Nevada, speaking for Bernie in small towns and cities, so I actually didn’t get to listen to Bernie’s speech on Thursday until I got back home over the weekend and caught it on C-SPAN yesterday. Though it was billed primarily as a speech focusing […]

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Yesterday, I spoke before a group of Democrats in Reno, Nevada on behalf of Bernie and, at one point, someone asked me about why the biggest labor unions are not choosing to endorse Bernie. My first point was simple: it’s a crass and ugly if understandable choice—the union leaders, many of whom I know, understand […]

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It’s where the entire labor movement should be: Bernie Sanders has landed his biggest labor endorsement to date: the American Postal Workers Union, or APWU. The group represents 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees from across all 50 states. The APWU executive board announced its choice early this morning. And “Politics as usual has […]

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In the roll-call of truly horrendous Village transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”) a standout has been Jackie Calmes. And, today, she keeps her reputation intact with a truly awful piece about the Trans Pacific Partnership. To begin, Calmes has a long and storied career at just gobbling up government nonsense and spitting […]

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