Working Life

Sometimes CEOs and the economic elites do stuff that is so transparently absurd that it sort of makes me laugh. Add to that list the letter, “A statement on the purpose of a corporation”, released this past week by the Business Roundtable, signed by a couple of hundred CEOs, promising to be, well, nice to […]

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Another day, another profitable corporation trying to skim more dough from the pockets of workers. Thousands of workers are striking Stop & Shop in the Northeast—I’m joined by Julie Sabo, one of those workers and a 38-year veteran of the company. Then, a top official of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), First Officer James […]

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How Boeing can run around and say with a straight face that it needs concessions from its workers when it is making large profits AND screwing tax payers at the same time is just a beautiful example of how corporations are fleecing the public — and, if you want to think about it in a bigger picture way, why the economy continues to be so bad for so many people.

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   In one sense, okay, this is fine: Boeing Co. and leaders of its main union reached a tentative settlement that could end one of the biggest U.S. labor disputes in recent times but leave unresolved key questions about the government’s right to determine where companies locate their plants. Boeing’s labor troubles took on political […]

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   This is an incredible waste of time, since this will not become law–at least while the Democrats control the White House: The Republican-controlled House is expected to approve an unusual bill that would bar the labor board from pursuing the board’s pending action against Boeing, which Republicans have been denouncing day after day. Republican […]

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    So, sometimes, you wade into a fight that just isn’t fair. Here is one of those fights on economic policy–one that boils down to a massive scam on the part of Flagless Corporate-Land aimed at ripping off those of us who still pay taxes. And this is a scam that is being aided and […]

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   Apparently, in the alternate universe Republicans inhabit, socialism is on the march and the attack against the "free market" is unrelenting. Where? At the National Labor Relations Board, of course. The truth is–shocking, I know–quite different, and it speaks volumes about the playing field for workers in the real world.    The NLRB has […]

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  This is a post simply suggesting we ponder what it means to live in a conflicted, grey world. Yeah, I hate that. It would be nice if everything was clear cut. But, it isn’t. Especially for people who are trying to survive in a corrupt economic system.   On the one hand, I am […]

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   You hear that great sucking sound? It’s the hundreds of billions of corporate dollars that flood to off-shore tax havens. Time to turn off the spigot… There is some movement here: Saying that offshore tax havens deprive the United States Treasury of tens of billions of dollars of revenue a year, two senior Democratic […]

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    The answer to this question would appear to be obvious. But, it needs constant reinforcing–as you will see from the debate (if you can call it that) last night between yours truly and Larry Kudlow and a stooge from the right wing. It’s almost laughable and entertaining–if the consequences weren’t so dire. The subject […]

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