Working Life

So, for the real gluttons out there, I’ve got the exchange of letters that lead to the creation of the National Labor Coordinating Committee. Anna Burger, chair of Change To Win, sent a letter to John Sweeney on April 11th. Sweeney replied a week later. And here you can also see the outline of the […]

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My sources tell me that today at 2 p.m. Change To Win and the AFL-CIO will announce a deal that sort of helps bridge the work of the two federations, mainly in the area of politics. This new formation will be called the National Labor Coordinating Committee and the main purpose of the committee will […]

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Intriguing, huh? It involves Change To Win and AFL-CIO but I can’t say anything until then…

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This is worth repeating and reading: the economic costs of the Iraq war. And weeping about. Everything you want to make happen will be hampered by the waste of $2 trillion.

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It’s a bit out of sight and out of mind–and obscured by the violence in Iraq–but there’s still a war going on in Afghanistan: 10 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash By CARLOTTA GALL Published: May 7, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan, May 6 — Ten American soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed Friday […]

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Back when NAFTA passed in 1993, a guy named Tom Sawyer was a so-called Democrat Congressmember from Ohio who voted for NAFTA. He was, then, beaten in a 2002 primary because of his NAFTA vote. Well, Tom tried for a comeback, running in the Democratic primary in the 13th Congressional District in Ohio to succeed […]

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I suspect no one reading this blog doubts the fact that the divide between rich and poor in the country is widening (if you do, well, you haven’t been paying attention). But, a couple of new pieces of evidence flew by my eyes this morning. First, David Cay Johnston of The New York Times (who […]

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Rep. William Jefferson, one of the CAFTA 15, just moved one step closer to indictment on corruption charges. Yes, he is innocent until proven guilty but both The New York Times and The Washington Post carry stories today that can’t make his day feel good, though the Post story is much more explicit about Jefferson’s […]

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The headline in The New York Times was kind of comic: “An Ugly Side of Free Trade: Sweatshops in Jordan.” It was almost as if The Times, which has been an unabashed editorial supporter of so-called “free trade,” was shocked, shocked, to find sweatshops spoiling the economic miracle promised by so-called “free trade.” Well, yes, […]

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I don’t want to overstate this but, if you look at what has happened in the past few weeks and months, the discontent at the economic conditions facing people here and around the world is bubbling up. Some of it has to do with the rising disparity between rich and poor, while some of the […]

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