Working Life

    Now that life is beginning to return to normal as pitchers and catchers report and all that nonsense about football recedes into a distant memory, other parts of life appear to be more abnormal. What’s this? An outburst of criticism of business? Must be that candidates are trolling for votes. Indeed, the megaphone for […]

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    Now that life is beginning to return to normal as pitchers and catchers report and all that nonsense about football recedes into a distant memory, other parts of life appear to be more abnormal. What’s this? An outburst of criticism of business? Must be that candidates are trolling for votes. Indeed, the megaphone for […]

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    As I reported exclusively yesterday, the UFCW has endorsed Sen. Obama. Here’s the statement from UFCW president Joe Hansen: For the 1.3 million members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), the 2008 Presidential election is about restoring the American dream for America’s workers.   UFCW members are energized to seize this opportunity […]

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    As I reported exclusively yesterday, the UFCW has endorsed Sen. Obama. Here’s the statement from UFCW president Joe Hansen: For the 1.3 million members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), the 2008 Presidential election is about restoring the American dream for America’s workers.   UFCW members are energized to seize this opportunity […]

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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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    I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]

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    I have to give Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott credit: he knows how to run an offensive campaign. I mean that in two ways. Offensive in the sense that he is refuses to lay back and absorb beating after beating, and is taking his campaign right to his critics and to the public. And offensive […]

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