Working Life

Some of you may have seen this but it’s worth repeating: Republican Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana said this, according to The Wall Street Journal’s “Washington Wire”: “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”

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So, yes, the president, responding to a request from a group of Republicans, did move quickly to undercut workers’ wages in Louisiana and Mississippi, and for good measure in areas in Alabama and Florida (beats me how he slipped in those last two states). He invoked emergency powers yesterday to suspend the Davis Bacon Act—effectively […]

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Cowards. Or so it seems. The CAFTA 15 appear to have either slipped in the back door or ended up as no-shows at last night’s fundraiser in their honor put on by the business community. Me thinks that the attention put on the fundraiser here and other places made these spineless folks take a powder. […]

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These people never stop. I mean, the Republicans–it isn’t enough that people in New Orleans and Mississippi have been devastated by Katrina, losing homes, family and friends. Now, these low-lifes in Congress want to take away a chance for workers to make a decent living, particularly in the reconstruction efforts that will be fed by […]

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A little more from today’s issue of The Hill. Reminder: if you’re in D.C. or can get your friends out who live there, they should be at 101 Constitution at 5:30 to give the CAFTA 15 a proper greeting as they walk into the business-sponsored payoff for their vote on CAFTA (remember, folks, send me […]

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Obviously, the price of Katrina is high–in human and financial terms. But, the devastation may have caused one positive development: our friends from OMB Watch report that the Republicans appear to have backed off their intention to vote on the repeal of the estate tax. Mind you, this didn’t come because Republicans saw the light […]

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Okay, all you ranters and ravers–you want to do something concrete? I now have the details on the business-sponsored fundraiser for the CAFTA 15—which was first reported here and then followed up the next day—which is taking place TOMORROW at 101 Constitution Ave in Washington D.C. from 6-8 p.m. Inside the building, the CAFTA 15 […]

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Welcome back, friends, from whatever you may have done over the Labor Day weekend. It’s going to be an interesting September, what with the Change To Win convention meeting on the 27th–there will be a new name for this group…and they are busily working on the Constitution and other specifics. But, this week, at least, […]

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Just enjoy it…(and let’s not remind ourselves that this should be celebrated on May 1st but that’s another story). More tomorrow…

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A reader sent in this bulletin from Workday Minnesota (thanks–readers alerts always welcome!). Be interesting to see if other such formations pop up either before or after the Change To Win Coalition convention, which takes place Sept. 27th in St. Louis. Also, wonder how these coalitions will work with the CLCs and State Feds and […]

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