Working Life

    Corporate welfare and the scam on the American people is a daily scandal. And it gets obscured sometimes in the rah-rah competition in the marketplace that we get sucked into by the traditional media. So, here’s something to think about: you, the taxpayer, are about to shell our billions of dollars to a corporation […]

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   I happened to catch a fairly dumb, back-patting panel run by the Democratic Governors Association (DGA)–ok, sure, it was to be expected to be of low level. Why? Here is a dumb question that unfortunately reflects the on-going rhetoric in the country: John Podesta, uber-lobbyist/insider/head of the Center for American Progress, asked: how important […]

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   Let me be quite clear again about one fact that gets lost: we have plenty of money in the country. There is no debt or deficit "crisis" even if people across the political spectrum, including former labor leaders, are regurgitating complete nonsense about the "crisis". This is simple: it’s class warfare and the rich […]

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   People want bread: Bahrain’s largest trade union on Thursday joined the opposition grouping tasked with articulating the demands of antigovernment protesters, raising the specter of further nationwide strike action to pressure the government to accept sweeping reforms. "We are with the protesters’ call for more rights and freedoms. We also want the government to […]

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Yesterday, hundreds of activists from labor and the community poured into the streets outside FOX NEWS in Manhattan. Spearheaded by Job Party, chants from "Unions, Yes, Walker, No" to "FOX NEWS Lies" to "Workers Rights Are Human Rights" bounced off the Fox News Building. Ed Schultz stuck his head out the window from down the […]

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   The revolt is spreading to other states. And here is one reason we must fight: Wal-Mart’s earnings rose sharply.    Indiana : On Monday, thousands of steelworkers, autoworkers and other labor activists surrounded the Indiana state capitol to protest a bill before the legislature to dramatically weaken the clout of private-sector unions.   Ohio […]

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   I got up this morning thinking I’d philosophize–then, I drank coffee and thought, nah, I like causing trouble a whole lot more. If only activists had that Internet switch–turn it off and get people into the streets? Ok, no, we’re not for that–but if you’re inclined to hit the streets…it’s happening everywhere…and there is […]

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   I was distracted all day, for the right reason–get out to the streets, rough it up, make some noise for Wisconsin workers:  

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    I am struck every day by the incredibly bizarre world we live in, where "up" is "down" and "down" is "up". I think many people are angry and confused because what they see in their daily lives–upheaval, struggle, fear–does not match much of the rhetoric coming from the people who have their hands on […]

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   It’s nice to write about something positive: Thousands of public employees and supporters converged at a hearing at the capitol here that ran into the wee hours of Wednesday morning to voice their objection to a proposal to cut their benefits and remove most of their unions’ ability to bargain. The show of anger […]

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