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Doonesbury: "Lack of paid sick days for workers causes what? Rich owners."...
Richard Trumka joins the line in Midtown Garry Trudeau is covering an important topic here. So important, in fact, that tonight a representative (likely the director) of the New York Communities for...
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VIDEO: "Dignity... That was the message of the signs [the restaurant workers]...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Yesterday's Doonesbury: “Lack of paid sick days for workers causes what? Rich owners.” #FastFoodFwd nailed it. So did Chris...
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House GOP leadership rammed through bill that would have effectively put...
Yesterday I posted this: "Reince Priebus confirms GOP’s not really serious about reinventing itself; Paul Ryan aids and abets." One of our astute readers brought one more thing to my attention,...
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Banishing the Poor, Unemployed and Working Class from the Mainstream Media...
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin; How often do you come across an article or a television news story that presents a poor person in a positive light? Or for that...
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VIDEO: Corporate CEOs admit pushing credit agencies to lower Illinois's bond...
Relevant segment at around the 47-minute mark. Via IllinoisChannelTV, Mar 8, 2013: From the Union League Club of Chicago: Former Attorney-General Ty Fahner, who now heads the Civic Committee of the...
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When reality intrudes on a blissful weekend in California's wine country
Mr. Laffy, the twins, a good friend of theirs, their dog, and I went on a fantastic weekend away in Temecula, a part of California's wine country. We loved our hotel, we loved the wineries, we loved...
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WI Gov. Scott Walker suggests stripping police and firefighter union rights
Why, it was only yesterday that I posted about how Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and county staff collaborated after a teenage boy was killed by a 13-ton concrete panel that fell on him....
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VIDEO: "Post-Citizens United, conservatives look at [union decline] & smell...
I recently posted about WI Gov. Scott Walker suggesting stripping police and firefighter union rights. Without unions, workers suffer. (We all suffer.) They suffer because they have no rights to speak...
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Mayday! Mayday! for America's middle class
Via So struggling Americans, how's that GOP-supported trickle-down economics workin' for ya? Same here. It's not. It never has, but that doesn't stop Paul Ryan or Eric Cantor from sticking up for...
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Somebody talk me down
Forgive me for putting on my Debbie Downer hat, but I started the day by reading way too many news stories that, frankly, freaked me out. And when I get freaked out, I share my freak-outitude with you...
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1956 GOP platform: "Expansion of social security... Unions have grown......
Welcome to the 1956 Republican Party of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Here are excerpts from the GOP platform: We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human...
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Something To Think About Now That School Is Back
Education is lacking nationwide. As a country, we're dropping in quality of education, test scores and in the percentage of kids who graduate high school. Someone's to blame. Let's see-- A majority...
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"Labor Day: the red-headed stepchild of holidays... to honor not the dead,...
Today’s guest post by the one, the only, Will Durst: THE LEAST LABORING OF DAYS Hey, it’s Labor Day, everybody. Woo- hoo. Okay, we’re partying now. Throw your arms in the air and wave them like you...
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VIDEO: A genius made this video, a British guy who calls himself a "Labor geek"
Link to tweet; link to Labor Day Wiki. And please read my post "What a difference a union can make!" In today's Los Angeles Times, there is an op-ed by Harold Meyerson (editor at large of the American...
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VIDEO: Why unions matter, in a measly 1 minute 19 seconds
Via Colin Gordon from June 2012: Author's analysis of Historical Statistics of the United States, unionstats.com, Piketty and Saez (2003), and The World Top Incomes Database...
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Decline of organized labor has helped worsen racial wage gap
Meredith Kleykamp and Jake Rosenfeld are professors of sociology at the University of Maryland and the University of Washington, respectively. Both are members of the Scholars Strategy Network, and...
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Elizabeth Warren: "The American people know the system is rigged against them"
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: Over the past few years, it appears more and more that Eliizabeth Warren represents in body, spirit and tenacity the change Barack...
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Wisconsin report card: 53% of charter schools fell below expectations, 2 got...
Back in February I posted, Gov. Scott Walker's budget: Planned Parenthood closes 4 locations; funds school vouchers, charter schools "leaving public schools on life support." Yes, Scotty not only...
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Guess who makes more income in states with lots of #union members?
From the Department of No Sh** Sherlock: Think Progress: The middle class brings home a substantially larger share of aggregate earnings in states that have high rates of union membership than in...
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VIDEO: "A democracy of rich people"
Damon A. Silvers is the director of policy and special counsel for the AFL-CIO. Here he is on CNBC, and he killed it: Silvers: Right now 55% of Americans fear they're going to be economically insecure...
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