How Polarized is Labor? - "21 National Unions Supporting Gephardt" "Major Service Unions Supporting Dean" And on the ground in Iowa, the unions are at...
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December 30, 2003
Ergonomics Scientists Boycott - From global warming to medical studies, the Bush Administration has systematically set out to destroy scientific peer review of policy....
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December 29, 2003
Minimum Wage as Campaign Issue - Finally, a bit of press on a candidate making raising the minimum wage a core campaign promise, in this case...
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Top Films of 2003 - Here's my loose take on the best films of the year, a bit ideosyncratic (12 films), some could be added...
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What Would Jesus Drink? - How about tons of coffee made by growers cooperatives, rather than by exploited farmers. A good story about the movement...
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December 26, 2003
The Fog of War - I saw the documentary The Fog of War and was fascinated that Robert McNamara referred to himself as a war...
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Dean is Optimistic - Atrios predicts that the new media meme (pumped by the GOP) will be that Dean is "pessimistic." Since Dean thinks...
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December 24, 2003
Dean on MalPractice: Then and Now - Dean no doubt has changed his positions on some issues, but there's a bit of a media/conservative drumbeat to argue...
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Cheers for Edwards - Well, John Edwards has just become my second choice after Dean for the nomination with this commitment against Democratic infighting:...
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December 23, 2003
Stopping Death - It's a basic rule of criminal law-- anyone dies during the commiting of a felony, even if unintentional, and everyone...
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Why We Fight - Rumsfeld's commitment to human rights: As a special envoy for the Reagan administration in 1984, Donald H. Rumsfeld, now the...
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December 22, 2003
An Antiwar Pickup in House? - Support Ro Khanna, an antiwar challenger in the Democratic primary against pro-war Congressman Tom Lantos (CA). In San Francisco, one...
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More Profits, Less Jobs & Wages - Louis Uchitelle at the Times highlights what a number of analysts have noted-- profits are rising even as wages stagnate:...
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December 20, 2003
Low-Wage America - Check out this Moving Ideas Network "in depth" section on Low Wage America. Along with a bunch of American Prospect...
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December 19, 2003
What the Bush Tax Cut Costs - This site by the Dean campaign is brilliant-- costing out the debt increases, local tax increases, and services costs from...
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Appeals Ct Declares RIAA "Silly" - The Recording Insustry Association of America (RIAA) just lost a BIG one. The D.C. Circuit declared that broadband service providers...
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Rittenhouse on PA Nurses Strike - See here with this nice angry line: Who says workers -- even professionals -- don’t need unions anymore? Only those...
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December 18, 2003
Padilla- Equality under the Law - This is a wonderful decision by the 9th Circuit that Guantanomo detainees must have a right to lawyers and the...
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Boycott Safeway! - The southern California locked out/striking workers have ramped up the campaign to a nationwide News > Business -- Workers rally...
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December 16, 2003
9th Circuit "Activism" on Medical Pot? - When you deal with conflicts between state and federal law, what constitutes "judicial activism" becomes confusing. However the court rules,...
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GOP Assault on Union Pensions - Read this article to understand how deep the GOP assault on unions and retired workers is-- even at the expense...
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December 15, 2003
I'm Satisifed - Just received this letter from the Kerry campaign. It asserts no connection to the Osama-Dean ads and condemns them-- not...
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Celebration - The California Nurses Association (CNA) and SEIU have agreed to work together on statewide legislation. The press release announcing this...
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Chutzpah in Antispam World - How would you advertise antispam software? How about spamming web sites to increase your google rating? I just got hit...
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Racism in Temp Agencies - Just to emphasize what should be accepted, but continues to be disputed by those who oppose affirmative action and hiring...
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December 14, 2003
Open Letter to Senator Kerry - Dear Senator Kerry, We write this open letter as a group of bloggers whose audience you respect enough that you...
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December 13, 2003
Failure of EU Constitution - The summit to approve a new Constitution for the European Union has broken down-- riven by the debate over whether...
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Black Commentator on Dean - Check out this Black Commentator story, Dean Makes Racial-Political History praising this speech by Dean. Very worth reading....
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EPI on Why Payroll Survey is Best - Just read this EPI Study, Measuring employment since the recovery, to sort through the conflicting jobs number from the "payroll"...
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Disaffection on the Right - Some FreeRepublic threads reflecting rightwing anger and disaffection from the GOP: Congressional porkfest: a pig in a poke Stalwarts Fought...
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Bush is Unelectable - Now, I've been saying this for a year and a half that Bush is unelectable, but now there appears to...
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Is Growth Real? More on Inflation - The Bureau of Economic Affairs (BEA) has just done a massive reworking of how it calculates GDP, rejiggering numbers back...
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Conservatives and "Judicial Activism" - For conservatives, judicial activism is any decision they don't like. That's the only conclusion you can have reading pieces like...
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Bush Attacks States Rights, Again - NY's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is fighting another Bush assault on state powers to regulate corporations: The Comptroller of the...
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Bush Army Attacks Iraqi Union HQ - Act NOW! to help Iraqi unionists: On Saturday 6 December 2003 US occupation forces using about ten armoured cars and...
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Significance of Gore Endorsement - ...Is that it's significant. This is a radical change from the past when the endorsement of the previous cycle's Democratic...
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% of Population Employed Falling - Read this Brad DeLong post which highlights how serious the employment problem is out there. He looks not as the...
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Argentina: End of Neoliberalism? - Hell is starting to freeze over...or rather the high citadels of international economic orthodoxy are starting to admit that IMF-driven...
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December 07, 2003
Where are the Iraqis? - Newt Gingrich has pointed out one of the most obvious stupidities of the new Coalition Provisional Authority. Writing in Newsweek,...
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Blogging Awards - You can check out the WizBang Blog awards and vote, and if you feel like it, you could even vote...
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Targetting the Poor - Reading history is wonderful for making you feel like political rhetoric is never new-- we just return to the same...
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Alterman on Kerry - Essentially, Alterman summarizes why it's sad that Kerry has run such a poor campaign-- he deserves far more respect than...
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Retail Sales Disappoint - Job growth still looks low for any kind of real recovery and retail sales in November were relatively anemic. The...
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57,000 Lousy New Jobs - The BLS numbers-- although the alternative "Household Survey" continues to give a completely different message of high job growth. Part...
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December 04, 2003
Why I Like Daschle - A lot of folks piled on Daschle after the Medicare vote, calling to dump him in favor of someone supposedly...
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Budget Pork Explodes Under GOP - Read this slam on the emerging GOP practice of ending merit-based grants in federal spending, and instead requiring "pay to...
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Why Tort Lawyers Could Stop Viruses - The Economist has a long profile of the virus and spam problem infesting computers. One person quoted, Bruce Schneier, a...
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Let Politics Design School Vouchers - The Supreme Court is deciding whether financial aid must be provided to students studying theology-- the idea being that refusal...
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Selling Out - Hi all-- On the left column, you'll see a new box, labelled "BlogAds", the increasingly popular system selling ads on...
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Taba and a Two-State Solution - I've been having a back and forth in comments with Joe on whether the Palestinians will ever accept a deal....
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Big Lies on Tort "Horror Stories" - Dave Johnson has a piece on the conservative movement's well-funded attacks on trial lawyers summarizing a report he wrote about...
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December 01, 2003
A Really Shitty Court Decision - I wish conservatives (or liberals) would get upset about this kind of judicial activism. This decision by the Eighth Circuit...
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What is a Union Corporate Campaign? - I came across this 2002 Congressional testimony by Professor Jarol B. Manheim, which is one of the better descriptions I've...
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New Series- Is Growth Real? - Without quite meaning to, I started a new linked series of posts on whether the recent GDP growth announced is...
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Alan Shore Strikes Again - On The Practice, Shore leads again using the wrong methods for the right goals: defending a Romanian girl threatened with...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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