by Leo Gerard | Mar 17, 2015 | Blog
Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation last week to lower the wages of Wisconsin’s middle class workers. He wants pay cuts for hard working Wisconsinites. It’s part of a pattern established by Wisconsin’s Republican governor and the Republicans who control the state...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 4, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
To Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, America's labor union members are the same as murderous, beheading, caged-prisoner-immolating ISIS terrorists. Exactly the same. That's what he told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. The governor said that...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 24, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
This 1943 image of a sleeping car porter employed by the Pullman Company was taken at Union Station in Chicago, Ill. by photographer Jack Delano. Courtesy U.S. Library of Congress. The billionaire Republican Governor of Illinois, Bruce Rauner, injected himself into...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Progressive Vision
The federal agency that investigates refinery catastrophes released its final report late last month on the massive fire, volatile vapor release and toxic smoke plume at Chevron’s Richmond, Calif., refinery in 2012 that imperiled 19 workers and sickened 15,000...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
In Anacortes, Wash., last week, approximately 200 Tesoro workers began picketing the oil refinery where an explosion incinerated seven of their co-workers five years earlier. Butch Cleve walks that picket line, serving now as strike captain for the USW local union at...
