Working Life

    So, nice to be back home and I hope to get a better report out on the Edwards poverty tour. But, since it will take a little time to look at my video results, here’s something for now: Tom Friedman has written a lot of dumb things in the past. It’s worth separating the […]

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    Wouldn’t it be nice if you could decide how much of your income you pay to the government–and, then, decide how much you’d like to get back? If you could start a little business advising people on how to pull off that little stunt, you’d be a rich man.     Welcome to the world […]

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    You can’t hardly turn on the boob tube or read a newspaper or look at a mainstream website without hearing the clamor about the benefits of “globalization” and “increased trade” blah, blah, blah…if you try to contest that nonsense, you’re just a dumb protectionist (trust me, I have the scars to show it…oh, sorry, […]

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    It never ceases to amaze me how much people are willing to practice the art of greed, particularly in the corporate world. Blackstone, one of the biggest player in the private equity world, is going public. The take for the top dogs, according to The Wall Street Journal: The founders of private-equity firm Blackstone […]

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This doesn’t surprise anymore, does it? Even though it is obscene beyond belief. After firing 3,400, Circuit City enriches CFO By Michael Rapoport, Dow Jones Newswires NEW YORK — Even as Circuit City Stores (CC) pushed 3,400 purportedly overpaid employees out the door, the company went out of its way to make the departure of […]

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     The real story bubbling within the auto industry is not the news that Toyota vaulted over General Motors in worldwide auto sales. Rather, it’s the growing ideological–not economic–drumbeat that is gathering targeting the livelihoods of tens of thousands of auto workers. And this is a direct attack against a decent standard of living for […]

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The inevitable ideological attacks against the UAW has begun. Just in time for the news that Toyota overtook General Motors in worldwide sales for the first time in history, the drumbeat has picked up in the pages of the business press: auto workers have to just buck it up and take the hit to save […]

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Supporting the Employee Free Choice Act should be a no-brainer for every Democratic senator. So, we need to ask: why are four Democratic Senators not co-sponsoring the legislation (S1041)? Are they anti-union? As of today, every Democratic senator is on-board as a co-sponsor of the bill (as are the two independents, Bernie Sanders and Joe […]

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As I talk to workers throughout the country, whether they are in unions or not, I’m struck how much the greed of CEOs has penetrated the public consciousness. But, CEO pay is really only the tip of the financial riches that CEOs are hauling away–it is their pensions and deferred compensation that are truly staggering. […]

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Thank god, I said–finally, a great juxtaposition of an argument I’ve made for lo these many years (and, not to great success, admittedly) that the Gross Domestic Product tells us very little about the general welfare of most people. The Bureau of Economic Analysis just dropped an e-mail to report that: Real gross domestic product […]

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