Working Life

    Reports out yesterday about what labor will spend on the 2008 general election campaign. This from The Wall Street Journal: With a $54 million budget, the AFL-CIO is likely to spend more than any organization outside the presidential campaigns and the political parties. The AFL-CIO spent $49 million on the 2004 election. Other labor […]

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    Reports out yesterday about what labor will spend on the 2008 general election campaign. This from The Wall Street Journal: With a $54 million budget, the AFL-CIO is likely to spend more than any organization outside the presidential campaigns and the political parties. The AFL-CIO spent $49 million on the 2004 election. Other labor […]

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    I was struck today, as I have been for the past several weeks, at the void created when John Edwards suspended his campaign for president. Today, it was on the issue of trade and globalization, courtesy of a piece in The Wall Street Journal entitled "Decoding Candidates On Trade."     Here’s an important paragraph, […]

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    I was struck today, as I have been for the past several weeks, at the void created when John Edwards suspended his campaign for president. Today, it was on the issue of trade and globalization, courtesy of a piece in The Wall Street Journal entitled "Decoding Candidates On Trade."     Here’s an important paragraph, […]

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    Before yours truly goes out to the picket lines for the Writers Guild of America (Time Warner Center Noon-2 p.m. for those of you in NYC…and, who knows, maybe this will be one of the last picket lines of the strike if the deal being discussed among the members this weekend passes muster), I […]

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    Before yours truly goes out to the picket lines for the Writers Guild of America (Time Warner Center Noon-2 p.m. for those of you in NYC…and, who knows, maybe this will be one of the last picket lines of the strike if the deal being discussed among the members this weekend passes muster), I […]

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    One interesting aspect–and an important one that has gotten very little coverage in the media (please put links to anything you see in the Comments section)–is what happens now to the labor support that John Edwards had. I suspect that  the campaigns of both Sens. Clinton and Obama are working the phones hard to […]

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    One interesting aspect–and an important one that has gotten very little coverage in the media (please put links to anything you see in the Comments section)–is what happens now to the labor support that John Edwards had. I suspect that  the campaigns of both Sens. Clinton and Obama are working the phones hard to […]

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    As I wrote yesterday, the markets around the world are in a freefall. This morning, things are looking just as grim, with predictions that the Dow will drop 500 points in early trading based on what happened yesterday and overnight in foreign markets. The Federal Reserve has just announced a 3/4 of a point […]

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    As I wrote yesterday, the markets around the world are in a freefall. This morning, things are looking just as grim, with predictions that the Dow will drop 500 points in early trading based on what happened yesterday and overnight in foreign markets. The Federal Reserve has just announced a 3/4 of a point […]

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