Cali AG Sues Supermarkets - Attorney General to File Antitrust Suit against the supermarkets conspiring to share resources to lockout their workers: The state attorney...
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January 30, 2004
Women Losing Rights in Iraq - So much for the wonders of "liberation": During my five weeks "in country" this fall, I witnessed a social, political...
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Veterans to Lose Overtime Pay - Bush really hates veterans, or is just really politically stupid. Apparently, one provision of his assault on overtime pay is...
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NYC Housing Boom- Zoning to Kill It? - While Manhattan mostly is building luxury housing, a boom in middle class housing construction is sweeping the outer boroughs. Six...
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January 28, 2004
Affirmative Action v. Budget Cuts - To deal with the budget crisis in California due to Republican refusal to raise taxes, 20,000 students who are qualified...
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January 25, 2004
One Reason to Like Kerry - Update: Finally got a graphic that's stable-- which shows Kerry being arrested back in the early 1970s in a protest...
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Rightwing Trashes SOTU - A lot of discontent on Bush's pandering on budget issues-- making noises about fiscal discipline while handing out goodies to...
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Congrats to Kerry - You gotta love politics-- there are always surprises, especially in multi-candidate primary races. Kerry's big win doesn't make me unhappy--...
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Myth of Declining Voter Turnout - TAPPED has a post pooh-poohing the idea that Howard Dean, or any Democratic candidate, can succeed by expanding voter turnout....
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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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