Working Life

Yesterday, I wrote that neither Sens. Clinton nor Obama are reliable on the issues of trade. Today, there is a bit more evidence to support that notion. It would be helpful if partisans of both camps stop pointing fingers so that we can have a clear-headed debate about trade.   In today’s New York Times, […]

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Yesterday, I wrote that neither Sens. Clinton nor Obama are reliable on the issues of trade. Today, there is a bit more evidence to support that notion. It would be helpful if partisans of both camps stop pointing fingers so that we can have a clear-headed debate about trade.   In today’s New York Times, […]

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   I passed on watching the debate last night (it’s just not that interesting, frankly) but, after hearing that NAFTA was attacked by both candidates, I had to go back and read the transcript. My conclusion: neither Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama understand the issue of trade, or they will be unwilling to make the […]

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   I passed on watching the debate last night (it’s just not that interesting, frankly) but, after hearing that NAFTA was attacked by both candidates, I had to go back and read the transcript. My conclusion: neither Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama understand the issue of trade, or they will be unwilling to make the […]

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    Here are a few ways clues that show very clearly the hit many workers are taking. The UAW has had to go on strike against American Axle after talks broke down late last night over a new contract. Check out what the company wants 3,600 workers to accept, according to The Wall Street Journal: […]

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    Here are a few ways clues that show very clearly the hit many workers are taking. The UAW has had to go on strike against American Axle after talks broke down late last night over a new contract. Check out what the company wants 3,600 workers to accept, according to The Wall Street Journal: […]

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    I don’t know how many of your media outlets carried the news that Doug Fraser, former UAW president, died Saturday night. From the Detroit Free Press: Douglas Fraser, a Detroit sit-down striker in the 1930s, UAW president in the 1970s and ’80s who played a key role in helping Chrysler survive, and a senior […]

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    I don’t know how many of your media outlets carried the news that Doug Fraser, former UAW president, died Saturday night. From the Detroit Free Press: Douglas Fraser, a Detroit sit-down striker in the 1930s, UAW president in the 1970s and ’80s who played a key role in helping Chrysler survive, and a senior […]

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    An economist named David Hale has a piece today in The Wall Street Journal which tells an interesting story:     The current business cycle will go down in the history books as one which confirmed that leadership in the global economy is now shifting from the old industrial countries to the emerging market countries. […]

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    An economist named David Hale has a piece today in The Wall Street Journal which tells an interesting story:     The current business cycle will go down in the history books as one which confirmed that leadership in the global economy is now shifting from the old industrial countries to the emerging market countries. […]

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