Working Life

    I applaud the president for trying to impose some new and renewed standards to try to make sure that what happened on Wall Street doesn’t happen again. But, we are about to miss an opportunity–perhaps a missed opportunity that will haunt us for years to come–to change the debate about our economy and the […]

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   It’s rare that we get to read about a total victory for workers in a contract fight. But, you can’t read this any other way: The talks went right up to the midnight strike deadline, as they often have in the past, with the union resisting the owners’ demands for cuts in health care […]

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   We’ll know soon whether there will be a strike of the doormen and other services workers in NYC. Check the background and ways to support the union here.

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   Well, let’s see where this goes: A top Senate Democrat said Monday he was optimistic lawmakers would move forward with legislation overhauling financial markets this week, as the Obama administration and congressional Democrats sought to build support for the measure ahead of a Senate vote. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), who chairs the Senate […]

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Though we’ve been involved now for over a year, we’ve gotten more serious in recent months.While we’ve always had our ups and downs, I’ve become worried that our relationship is overall unhealthy, imbalanced, and that I’ve become addicted to you. Let me explain. 1. My relationship with you has hurt my relationship with others. Friends […]

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   I’ve always like the Right to Rent idea, proposed by Dean Baker at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, because it would help homeowners–not banks–who are facing the foreclosure crisis. Now, there is a bill to make it law:  "The Right to Rent Act of 2010" was introduced by Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva […]

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   Tax Day is approaching. I did a little exercise, thanks to National Priorities Project, about what we could do with the money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It’s worth thinking about since there is more money about to be wasted on the Afghanistan quagmire.    I chose New York. According to the […]

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   A month ago, I called for the indictment of Lehman Brothers executives–as well as an investigation of the role played by then-NY Federal Reserve head Tim Geithner–for the "materially misleading" actions (that is accounting-speak for scams) that those execs undertook to cover up their financial misdeeds that sent Lehman over the edge–and helped drag […]

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   By now, you may have read this: Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union’s board and another SEIU official. The President of an SEIU local based in Seattle, Diane Sosne, broke the news to her staffers […]

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