Working Life

We get one for the good guys. Sort of. Friday night, a federal judge struck down the personnel rules adopted by the Department of Homeland Security because, as The New York Times reports today, the rules did not “ensure collective bargaining” even under the pathetic framework of the bill passed by Congress that created the […]

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Look, I’m no fan of the F.B.I. and there are many, many, many instances of these guys going after completely innocent people. But, I do want to note a follow up to the info I posted a week ago about the F.B.I. raid on the offices of Rep. William Jefferson, one of the CAFTA 15. […]

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This is worth checking out: http://afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

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I’m intrigued enough by the Solidarity Charters question to give it one more ride here, though I might also come back with some reactions from the CLC folks themselves. After reading the guidelines in John Sweeney’s letter to the Executive Council, I wonder (along with some intelligent commenters yesterday) how doable these charters really are. […]

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It seems petty if it’s deliberate or just plain pathetic if it was forgotten but…the Administration seems, to date, hell bent on effectively ignoring the 70th anniversary of Social Security, which falls this Sunday; historically, Republican and Democratic administrations alike have celebrated important milestones for Social Security. Well, yes, the president and his economic team […]

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So, yes, all of you have written to ask (geez, didn’t know there was that much interest in this meeting) not much happened at the Building and Construction Trades Department meeting (as one participant said, “alot of meaningless resolutions and even more meaningless speakers”). Except that John Sweeney did talk about his concept of “solidarity […]

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I was a bit preoccupied with L’affaire McKay yesterday so I didn’t get to this. Readers here know that I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the China challenge, and pointing out that no one has a good solution about to deal with China, short of just joining a drum-beat that I fear will […]

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Or so goes the defense of Gregory Meeks in the wake of L’affaire McKay, at least according to the Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill (see half way down the Hill’s Under The Dome column). “I’m shocked by it,” Meeks told The Hill. “It does not reflect me at all. I would never use that language […]

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Well, if you wondered whether the CAFTA 15 are testy about their vote and maybe a tad worried that it’s going to come back to bite them, check out this barrage which was sent by Mike McKay, senior policy advisor to Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY, District 06), one of the CAFTA 15. He sent it […]

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A slight detour from my usual ramblings…I couldn’t shake the story of Cindy Sheehan, the woman who has posted herself outside the president’s vacation home, demanding that he meet with her to explain why her 24-year-old son, Casey, had to die in Iraq. She’s not going to move from that searing heat until she tells […]

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