Working Life

I’m always on the lookout for things to add to the George Orwell list of “War is Peace” double talk. So, now, comes a threat to the whole idea of winning neutrality agreements in union organizing campaigns.

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  I suspect we are going to be distracted by an emerging debate between Congressional Democrats and The White House on how to handle the CEO pay caps written into the economic stimulus bill. This is a distraction because, in all honesty, the pay caps aren’t real.   Today, there is this news in The […]

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   On the one hand, this was one of the things that I, and others, worried about when the president announced his Cabinet (and let me just say that it is nice to listen to a president, even one who you disagree with on some fundamental issues of economic power, who can conduct a news […]

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  Perhaps only the prospect of hanging at dawn focuses the mind more than money. And now that we have the attention of all those banks and other folks who salivate at getting OUR (taxpayer) money through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), why not get something real out of them: write into new legislation […]

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    A long-time reader alerted me to this yesterday (and asked: "why haven’t I written about this?" To which I said to him–and say to all–open up your own blog here and get cracking…I can’t do everything, you know, and there are a lot of smart and connected people out there who have something to […]

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