Kerry Kicking Bush's A-- - Bush just seems to keep repeating himself. And insisting that Kerry is flip-flopping when Kerry is saying completely reasonable explanations...
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SF Solves the Nader Problem - San Francisco is implementing a New Instant Runoff System that could be a model for reforms across the country. The...
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New Pan-African Congress Opens - I like all new democratic bodies, so I'm happy that a new Pan-African Parliament is opening for business, representing delegates...
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September 16, 2004
MBA Profs Against Bush - Well, these profs would have flunked Bush back in his management school days: America needs a change at the top....
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September 12, 2004
Your Mutual Fund Helped Loot Economy - As corporations defrauded the public in the 1990s with distortions of their budgets and excessive, unchecked pay for CEOs, it...
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September 11, 2004
Peaceful Tomorrows on 911 - Three years ago, families of victims of 911 created September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows to promote the idea that...
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A New Group LaborBlog - In celebration of Labor Day, I've joined up with a bunch of other labor folks to launch a new group...
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Labor Day - Big Think Pieces in the Media Start with Business Week's Can This Man Save Labor about SEIU's Andy Stern and...
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September 02, 2004
Retails Sales Down, Unemployed Up - Two big bad economic numbers for Bush going into his speech: Seasonally adjusted jobless claims for the week ended Aug....
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Zell Praised Segregationist - Let's be clear. Zig-zag Zell made his career as henchman to segregationists, zagged to being a "New South" Democrat when...
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September 01, 2004
Random Thoughts - A bit of realtime blogging for the fun of it. Geez- Elaine Chao gave one of the worst speeches I've...
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In the Tank - Ah, breathing free here at The Tank, where I've met a bunch of the street bloggers hiding from RNC delegates...
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Police State USA - It was quite a transition. I spent the early part of the evening doing legal observing in Herald Square, where...
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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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