by Richard Eskow | Oct 7, 2012 | Blog
The Bureau of Labor Statistics was created in 1884 by Chester Alan Arthur -- and now Jack Welch wants to see its birth certificate. President Arthur was a rock-ribbed Republican, a product of New York's Conkling political machine, but he was clearly a shifty...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog
Walmart warehouse workers have been staging strikes, now workers at some stores are joining in. This morning in Pico Rivera, California, Walmart workers staged a one-day work stoppage, saying there has been retaliation against them for trying to organize a union. At...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 30, 2012 | Blog
Americans now stand a greater chance of dying from the effects of austerity than being killed in a car crash. At least that's what a new report suggests, if you read between the lines. The study, authored by a West Virginia University professor and published in the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog
Get the word out. The movie Won't Back Down is another propaganda product of the corporate/conservative machine, put in theaters to get you to support union busting and school privatization. Over at the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, Mary Bottari writes in...
