Working Life

Another update from the 26th Congressional district race between Democratic challenger Jack Davis and the Republican Tom Reynolds. The Buffalo News reports that: Democrat Jack Davis has opened a significant lead over Republican incumbent Thomas M. Reynolds in a congressional contest fueled by Reynolds’ association with the Mark Foley sex scandal. Davis leads Reynolds 48 […]

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Last year sometime (the old mind tends to forget when) we had a bit of a discussion about Working America and whether its strategy would work: sign up non-union workers to a kind of close relationship with the AFL-CIO, allowing labor to, then, turn those people out to vote. Steve Greenhouse has a story today […]

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The New York Times editorial page can make me laugh and scream at the same time. This morning, the page has what can only be described as a strong editorial about the attack on unions. Entitled “Kicked While Down,” the editorial comes down on the Bush National Labor Relations Board for its ruling in the […]

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It’s pretty clear to a majority of people that the president operates in a non-reality-based world when it comes to the Iraq war. So it is with the economy as well. Today, he’s visiting a facility of Federal Express in Washington, D.C. to talk about the new job numbers. Now, I understand why he would […]

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Sometimes, those of us who have continually said so-called “free trade” is a very bad deal for American workers and workers around the globe. NAFTA, for example, has cost about 1 million decent-paying jobs since it was passed, thanks to the Clinton Administration. Here’s a bit more information from the Economic Policy Institute: For a […]

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The question is being asked, legitimately, if it is now time to abandon the National Labor Relations Board in light of the Kentucky River decision? I’ve been among those that for a long time have advocated abandoning the NLRB process. Even without the Kentucky River decision, as veteran organizers and negotiators know, winning an election […]

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If you wanted another great reason to drive this Administration and its enablers from power, the Bush majority at the National Labor Relations Board has just posted its ruling in a significant group of cases known collectively as Kentucky River. And it’s very bad. The board’s ruling has now classified many nurses as “supervisors” if […]

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For a long time, I’ve argued that politicians who focus on the challenge presented by China miss the real problem, intentionally or unintentionally. Almost a year ago, when the debate was raging about the need for China to revalue its currency, I didn’t disagree with the point but added that: …the level of the currency […]

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As if it wasn’t hard enough to make a living at Wal-Mart, the nice people running the Beast of Bentonville have decided that people make too much money working at their stores–and that the lives of the workers are just too darn focused on things other than Wal-Mart. The New York Times today has a […]

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I’m one of those people that has been totally unimpressed by the excitement over Bob Woodward’s new book. I haven’t read any of Woodward’s books since “All The President’s Men” primarily because he is simply a regurgitator, with some extra facts, of either the conventional wisdom or the anti-convention wisdom once it becomes the new […]

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