by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Department of Commerce released the July U.S. trade figures this morning. We reached a new job-sucking record with China. If you are a Wall Street or Chinese billionaire it's an occasion to break out the champagne. However, if you are not a Wall Street or...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 3, 2014 | Economy, Jobs and Growth
A study from Labor and Employment Relations professor Robert Bruno of the University of Illinois-Urbana and policy director of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute Frank Manzo IV showed that states with anti-union "right-to-work" laws have lower tax revenue, and...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 2, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Eric Cantor was a congressman from Virginia and was House majority leader. He was known for being particularly friendly to Wall Street and the giant, multinational corporations. In the June Republican primary, his Virginia constituents got fed up with this and booted...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Reviving Strong Unions
The other day I wrote about how FedEx has been pretending that their employees are not employees, which gets around labor standards for things like overtime, family leave and the rest. This misclassification game is just one way that big companies have been rigging...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 28, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
You know all those people who work for FedEx? A court has ruled that they work for FedEx! FedEx, like so many other companies, has been shifting costs onto employees by pretending they are not employees. This is called "misclassification" and this ruling matters....
