by Leo Gerard | Dec 23, 2014 | Blog
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place into a right-to-work (for less) sinkhole. The county officials did it at the bidding of big corporations. They certainly didn’t do it for...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 16, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trade
Under billions of tons of imports, the American dream is suffocating. The American people have lost faith. They know that bad trade has bled factories, middle class jobs and wage increases from the country. A report issued last week by the Economic Policy Institute...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog
Holiday bells are silent in the homes of America’s struggling working poor, even with gasoline prices at their lowest levels in years. These are people derided as moochers because their starvation wages force them to accept food stamps to feed their children. On the...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog
At the first Thanksgiving 383 years ago, Native Americans and Pilgrim immigrants gathered with mutual respect to share a bountiful harvest they’d produced together. This Thanksgiving, though, there’s no respect or sharing in the homes of GOP nativists. Suffering...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 18, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Retirement Security
At a chemical plant called Point Pleasant in a town named Apple Grove in a state John Denver labeled almost heaven, a man known as Freel Tackett helped negotiate three collective bargaining agreements that provided raises and decent benefits for workers and retirees....
