Working Life

   A couple of weeks ago, I noted that corporations were now beginning to think that China, with its rising prices and increasing wages (relatively speaking), wasn’t cheap enough. And, so, comes another report via Reuters: The result is higher prices at U.S. stores like Wal-Mart and Target that have increasingly filled their shelves with […]

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   I meant the "breaking" as a snark, in case it wasn’t obvious. For everyone but the pro- so-called "free trade" crowd (economists, elites and too many Democrats), it’s been crystal-clear that the driving force behind trade is wages, not efficiency, a better product, lower prices for consumers and all the other nonsense you read. […]

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   [a technical glitz made this post invisible–until now].    Maybe it’s the beautiful spring air but my mind is off in other directions than usual. So, here are two seemingly unrelated things that caught my attention that are actually related. First, is it just me or did anyone else pick up on the stark […]

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I have to admit to a knee-jerk dislike when I hear the name "General Electric". It goes back to the days when the company that claims "we bring good things to life" was deep in the business of producing nuclear weapons, which have a quirky ability to end life. Then, there was the reign of […]

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    I am on a conference call with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) Leo Gerard, president of the United Steel Workers and Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch to talk about the role trade is playing in the presidential race.  The one piece of news, to the extent it […]

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    I am on a conference call with Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) Leo Gerard, president of the United Steel Workers and Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch to talk about the role trade is playing in the presidential race.  The one piece of news, to the extent it […]

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  These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]

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  These days are times for the Waltons of Wal-Mart to be dancing in the streets of Bentonville, Arkansas. After all, the economy is tanking and millions of people are heading for a painful few years, people are losing their homes, gasoline prices are on the rise, health care is continuing to evaporate–these are precisely […]

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    China is a complicated place. And, certainly, there has been a lot of debate in U.S. labor circles about how to engage with the Chinese labor movement–some see the one legal union in China as simply a government-run monolith that stands in for any independent union, while others see a more complicated picture where […]

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    China is a complicated place. And, certainly, there has been a lot of debate in U.S. labor circles about how to engage with the Chinese labor movement–some see the one legal union in China as simply a government-run monolith that stands in for any independent union, while others see a more complicated picture where […]

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