October 05, 2003
: Why the Left Supports Amnesty - Greg Yardley over at commiewatch is perplexed that leftists support undocumented immigrants: immigrants' desire to come to America, even illegally,...
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September 30, 2003
: New Labor Blog- and Freedom Rides - Just added a new labor blog, They Call Us Troublemakers which has a whole series of posts about the Immigrant...
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September 23, 2003
: News from the Freedom Ride - A sampling of news from around the nation Minnesotans joining Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Miguel Olvera-Rucoba is a legal immigrant....
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September 16, 2003
: Immigrant Rights Help US Workers - With the Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides coming, we all need to fight one of the premiere fallacies promoted by the...
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September 15, 2003
: Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride - Immigrant workers... They can't vote, they have no labor rights, they can be detained without trial or charge-- they are...
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June 28, 2003
: CA Senate Backs Immigrant Freedom Ride - Here's good news: A labor-backed bus trip and rally to raise support for immigrant workers, styled after the 1961 Freedom...
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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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