by Richard Eskow | Sep 4, 2014 | Blog, Reviving Strong Unions
[fve]http://youtu.be/zNqFTxCTCTY[/fve] Labor Day was last weekend. For the occasion we interviewed our own Robert Borosage on The Zero Hour radio program regarding his piece entitled "Inequality: A Broad Middle Class Requires Empowering Workers." That piece begins as...
by Bill Scher | Sep 3, 2014 | Blog
In late July, the head of the Republican House campaign committee predicted a "wave" election. And pundits have generally assumed it will be strong Republican year, arguing the Democrats are being weighed down by President Obama's low approval ratings. Republicans can...
by Harvey J Kaye | Sep 3, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
President Obama came to Milwaukee's 2014 Laborfest this past Monday. He said he had come to celebrate Labor Day, to celebrate workers' pursuit of America's promise – or as he put it: "We’re here to celebrate something that sometimes the American people take for...
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 Sam Pizzigati | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Every August, for most of the last four decades, top central bankers from around the world have been making their way to the Wyoming mountain resort of Jackson Hole for an invitation-only blue-ribbon economic symposium. This year’s Jackson Hole hobnob, once again...
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...
