by Terrance Heath | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog
It's always struck me as odd that the media could portray the tea party as a "grassroots movement." From its corporate origins on CNBC to its corporate PR backing and its even more corporate agenda, not much about it has ever seemed grassroots to me. Odder still was...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 2, 2011 | Blog
Pundits and politicians love to righteously denounce the windfall rewards that go to corporate CEOs who 'fail.' But windfalls for CEOs who 'perform,' researchers suggest, ought to worry us far more. Leo Apotheker, the just-axed CEO at computer giant Hewlett-Packard,...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2011 | Blog
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is back to work, and for the first time in years has started doing its job. This is a shock to anti-government corporate conservatives, and teaches a lesson about just why they are anti-government. A functioning government in...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2011 | Blog
What can a democracy like ours do when giant companies say, "Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules! We don’t got to pay you no taxes!" and "We will just move out of your puny country if you try to tell us what to do." Government is beginning to enforce labor laws...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 1, 2011 | Blog
House conservatives today threw another grenade today in their war on workers and the institutions designed to protect worker rights. They also continued to show their willingness to politically interfere in an administrative law process to impose their ideology and...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 1, 2011 | Blog
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is engaging in legal action against Boeing and is threatening to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah for anti-union activities. It has been so long since the NLRB was willing and able to engage on the side of...
