by James Mumm | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog
Massive, disruptive change is happening in the world economy. Up to half of all current workers, both white and blue collar, could be driven into unemployment by technology. Automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are fueling a new industrial...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog
The total number of workers at risk is 1.2 million. In my union, the United Steelworkers (USW), 100,000 are threatened. Daryl A. Bugbee of Olivet, Mich., is one of them. He wrote Congress’ Joint Select Committee on Multiemployer Pensions on Aug. 8: “I am the father of...
by George Goehl | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog
While the country was captivated on election night by insurgent campaigns led by Southerners like Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O’Rourke, people in the America’s Heartland and the Rustbelt were preparing a message of their own. Two years after they sent...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog
While the serial outrages of the Trump administration continue to make headlines, the more mundane activities of his cabinet officials and their underlings often fly under the radar. Take U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, for instance, whose nomination drew a...
by Jason Walker | Nov 27, 2018 | Blog
Amazon is a massively profitable company. Its founder, Jeff Bezos, is the world’s richest man, by far – at least $50 billion richer than every other billionaire on the planet, and light years ahead of you and me. That’s why the $3 billion gift bag Governor Cuomo and...
by James Mumm | Nov 26, 2018 | Blog
If you're like me, you're doing a lot of cooking and shopping over the holidays. But there is one item that you’re just not going to find anywhere, much less on sale. It’s a Trumpducken. What is a Trumpducken, you ask? A lie wrapped in a blunder wrapped in propaganda?...
