by Dave Johnson | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Corporations are more and more in the habit of telling governments that they are the boss of them. If corporations get their way, "trade" agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will formalize...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
If a company does something bad to you, you can sue them, right? Actually, thinking that is so 1970s. These days, gimmicks called "arbitration clauses" in contracts you are forced to sign basically let companies do what they want and keep you from taking them to...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The Department of Labor (DOL) has released the final rules for implementing President Obama's two-year-old Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces executive order. The July 2014 post, Obama’s ‘Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order’, explained the order: Saying that...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Many opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continue to assume Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is only saying she opposes TPP to get their votes, while hoping it passes in the "lame duck" session of Congress after the election and before...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Calling the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a "trade" deal (it isn't) the corporate community and the Obama administration are also trying to sell it as important for national security. Recent op-eds make a strong case that this is just wrong. First, Brigadier General...
