You may remember that last month I did a curtain-raiser on the Jet Blue flight attendants’ union organizing campaign vote (Episode 74). Yesterday, the vote came in—and the workers crushed it, winning by a 2-1 margin. You get to hear first-hand from three front-line flight attendant activists how it all came down. I also talk […]
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Episode 78: Workers Crush It So Jet Blue Goes Union; Murder in Honduras and Guatemala; The Fed; Tax Truths
Posted on 18 April 2018.
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The Week in Headlines
Posted on 10 November 2009.
Bat-shit crazy, right-wing wingbats stop denying the holocaust so that they can liken it to federally funded health care.
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Best Political Halloween Costumes: Put Your Costume Where Your Mouth Is
Posted on 31 October 2009.
Put on a bunch of fake blood, carry a cane or crutches, draw on what look like home-made stiches. You’re… the opt out to the public option. Put a pillow under shirt and carry a bunch of baby dolls. You’re… Abstinence Only. Wear a suit and glasses. Get a wolf stuffed animal and apply […]
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Top 10 Reasons the U.S. Isn’t Getting its Panties in a Bunch over Honduras
Posted on 11 July 2009.
www.KatieHalper.com In its response to the events of Honduras, the Obama Administration is acting like a CT (Coup-tease), whose commitment phobia and"joint military operations. " intimacy issues render it paralyzed and unable to engage in a healthy relationship with Latin America. The Administration flirts with the idea that the coup is really a coup, and […]
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Whistleblower on Labor Rights Violations Loses Round
Posted on 21 March 2008.
Almost three years ago, I wrote about James Lynn, a whistle-blower who worked for Wal-Mart and exposed the Beast’s exploitation of workers in Central America. Wal-Mart fired Lynn, claiming he had engaged in improper "fraternization" with a colleague. A couple of days ago, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled in Wal-Mart’s favor: The Arkansas […]
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Some Good Holiday Sweatshop News
Posted on 27 December 2007.
If it’s possible to say that there is good news from the sweatshop front, here it comes, from our friends at the National Labor Committee: Fifty-eight workers fired for organizing a union at the Star SA factory in Honduras’s El Porvenir free trade zone (owned by the U.S. Anvil t-shirt company) have been reinstated […]
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Some Good Holiday Sweatshop News
Posted on 27 December 2007.
If it’s possible to say that there is good news from the sweatshop front, here it comes, from our friends at the National Labor Committee: Fifty-eight workers fired for organizing a union at the Star SA factory in Honduras’s El Porvenir free trade zone (owned by the U.S. Anvil t-shirt company) have been reinstated […]
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