Unions


Dave Johnson's picture

How Companies Turn People Against Unions

If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in the world – more every day thanks to population growth, and computers and machines doing more of the work that needs to be done. more »

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William Neil's picture

Who Is Obama's "Forgotten Man?"

WHO IS OBAMA’S “FORGOTTEN MAN?”
(FIELD NOTES FROM THE “LAGGING INDICATORS”)

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power…that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid…No Nation can long endure half bankrupt. more »

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Tula Connell's picture

We Couldn't Have Said It Better

Want to pass along this blog from AFL-CIO Now's Mike Hall. more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Reaching The Wrongest Conclusion About Unions!

A letter-writer in my local paper today reaches the wrongest possible conclusion:

Public, private workers live in different worlds more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Are Public Employee Unions Strangling Us?

For Billionaire Mort Zuckerman it’s those damn unions that are the problem. For so many of the rest of us the problem is that we don't have a union.

Zuckerman has been with us on lots of things, like what he wrote about the stimulus, more »

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Dave Johnson's picture

Pressure On Wages As Well As Jobs

Our economy is not structured to produce enough jobs. Tomorrow's jobs report is expected to show as many as 200,000 jobs created in March, but a lot of that is temporary Census hires, and even 200,000 jobs created is still 2-300,000 fewer jobs than number of new entrants into the job market each month! more »

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Richard Eskow's picture

Will This Study Finally End Democrats' Magical Thinking About the 'Cadillac Tax'?

It's been a fascinating anthropological exercise to watch the health excise tax concept (the so-called "Cadillac tax") keep its popularity among Democratic and liberals, even as one study after another discredits the assumptions behind it. It's the Democratic equivalent of trickle-down economics - an idea that doesn't seem to die no matter how much it's contradicted by the facts. more »

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Tula Connell's picture

Danger: Falling Middle Class

Photo credit: lovestruck

Jack Cafferty at CNN this week more »

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