Working Life

My occassional clean-up of left-over stuff, just the antidote for Sunday easy reading– On the Wal-Mart Front–Good News, Bad News: The Beast has thrown in the towel, pretty quickly I might add, on the on-line DVD rental biz. Netflix’s head start in the business tailor-made for couch potatoes and parents with no baby sitters was […]

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A bit of easy activism for you on a weekend—if you needed more evidence of the corruption of corporate America, just check out United Airlines. Here’s an airline in bankruptcy, it reaches a deal to jettison its pension plans and dumps those liabilities on the government, which means a lot of workers will not get […]

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I’m all behind the fight to keep Wall Street’s hands of Social Security but there’s a more silent attack on retirement: the destruction of the private pension system. Though I’ve written about this before, I was reminded of the problem today after reading Mary Williams Walsh’s piece in The New York Times on the government’s […]

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