Working Life

   I’m working on Denver time now and, after being out drinking a lot of wine, I’m strapped back into the saddle. Now, this is really good news and a lot of kudos go out to the leadership of the New York State AFL-CIO: at its most recent statewide convention this past week, the State […]

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   On Monday, Reuters had this piece: Tensions Mount Inside Actors Union Over Contract By REUTERS Filed at 9:28 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tensions within the Screen Actors Guild mounted on Monday as the union’s Hollywood-based leaders rejected a call by SAG’s New York branch to bring in a federal mediator to break […]

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   I’m always in favor of a little street theater and humor in this oh, so, serious business. So, there’s been a bus tour underwritten by the Consumer Electronics Association called "America Wins With Trade", drummed up to try to generate a pulse for the quickly dying so-called "free trade" agenda. Some clever folks in […]

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   Well, Wal-Mart has a union…but not in the U.S…across the border, and only because a judge imposed the union on the Beast. Shows you what a slightly better legal system can do for union organizing. Here’s what The Wall Street Journal has today: An arbitrator has imposed a contract on a Wal-Mart Canada auto […]

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   Other people are feeling the pain, so says The Wall Street Journal: The global economy — which had long remained resilient despite U.S. weakness — is now slowing significantly, with Europe offering the latest evidence of trouble. On Thursday, the European Union’s statistics agency said gross domestic product in the euro zone contracted 0.2% […]

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   I am not surprised by this but it makes me wonder why there is this general whispering campaign that critics of Sen. Obama’s economic proposals should keep quiet. The Wall Street Journal this morning: The campaign for the CEO vote is heating up. With increasing attention on the economy, the presidential candidates are trying […]

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   Huh. Why worry about cutting corporate taxes when they don’t even bother to pay any?: Two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005, according to a report released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. The study, which is likely to […]

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   I mean, this is just pathetic. We’ve all heard about people getting married so that one spouse can get covered by the other spouse’s health care plan, and that’s what most of this story recounts. But, the new twist: Other couples, like Michelle and Marion Moulton, are forced to consider divorce so that an […]

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Well, it never gets old–watching the reality unfold that contradicts what the blind advocates of so-called "free trade" and "liberalization" want people to believe. One of the great lies of the globalization scam is that, hey, don’t worry, if we just educate people more and have them do higher-skilled jobs, not to worry, everyone will […]

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   On Friday, I observed that the Democrats were caving in too early on the question of what health care plan is the best plan to move to. It is obviously single-payer–no contest. Economically and morally. The leeches of the private insurance industry will always undercut any plan that keeps a role for for-profit health […]

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