Courts Slam Bush DOL on TAA Benefits - This gets monotonous. Once again, the U.S. Court of International Trade has condemned the Bush Department of Labor for failing...
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August 23, 2004
Bush: Suppress Free Speech - It's quite amazing. Bush refuses to denounce the Swift Boat Ads as slimy politics. Instead, he wants to use them...
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Victory for Tech Freedom - The 9th Circuit, the same court that shut down Napster, just gave a major legal victory to the more decentralized...
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August 18, 2004
Election Day Starts Sept. 18 - Forget October Surprises. It could be too late, since many Americans will have already voted. At least a dozen battleground...
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PA Veteran Families Oppose War - Okay, this poll is nice in showing a solid Kerry lead in Pennsylvania over Bush (47-42), but the more interesting...
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August 17, 2004
Another Bush Promise a Lie - David Broder recently noted that it's hard to see how Bush can be reelected when two of his major initiatives,...
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Bush's Quiet War on Immigrants - Two big changes in policy this week translate into a major assault by Bush on undocumented immigrants. First, he announced...
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August 08, 2004
Subcontracting Dictatorship - Pretending to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqis has it's advantages. The Iraqis can use dictatorial tactics and keep Bush's...
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August 06, 2004
The Jobs Report - John Crudele at the New York Post is predicting a bad jobs report today, not so much because he thinks...
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Why the Silence on Abu Ghraib? - Rolling Stone has obtained the classified documents revealing the details of far worse abuse and torture than we saw in...
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The Bush Depression - The only saying goes, it's a recession when your neighbor loses their job; it's a depression when you lose it....
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August 01, 2004
Kuwait Bans "Fahrenheit 9/11" - Yep, this is the monarchical dictatorship that we supposedly saved from Saddam Hussein, helping keep its oil fields in the...
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NY Times on Union Discord - Steven Greenhouse gives a bit of a blow by blow of the internal debate by unions on the future of...
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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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