by Kenneth Bernstein | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
We were sitting in a Starbucks in Arlington, Va. It was our first meeting. Previously, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and I had talked by phone and exchanged blog posts on education. His campaign staff had reached out to a number of educational bloggers, as he was...
by Bill Scher | Jan 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Trade That Hurts United Steelworkers' Leo Gerard: "'Uncertainty' is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
“Uncertainty” is the pitchfork that corporations now effectively wield to prod politicians into action. It’s a threat, as in, if Congress doesn’t do this or that, such as avoid the fiscal cliff or raise the debt ceiling, then corporations will suffer the unbearable...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
Sunday I interviewed Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers, a union with 1.3 million members. Now that we know Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is leaving the administration and a new Labor Secretary will be appointed and confirmed, I asked him...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
People were outraged that AIG's board of directors considered suing its own rescuers last week. As a former AIG employee, I had a slightly different take on that story: The outrage was warranted (and Warren-ted), but there was somebody behind the scenes pulling the...
