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Julie Gutman Dickinson, Esq., is a partner with the union side law firm Bush, Gottlieb, Singer, Lopez, Kohanski, Adelstein and Dickinson. For 10 years, Ms. Gutman was a trial attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Los Angeles, where she was the only attorney to compile a 100 percent win record in voluminous unfair labor practice trials and federal district court litigation. Ms. Gutman served as Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Public Works Commissioners and Senior Labor Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. In that capacity, she worked successfully to promote good jobs, workforce development programs and labor harmony. She also served as Executive Director of the Program for Torture Victims and remains on that organization's Board of Directors.

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The Freedom to Be Impoverished: Matt Yglesias' Perverse Logic on the Minimum Wage

(1) Comments | Posted March 5, 2013 | 1:50 PM

When President Obama proposed an increase in the federal minimum wage last month, you could almost hear conservative economists and pundits smacking their lips in anticipation. After all, there's nothing that gets this crowd going like mandating a wage increase, even if it's from the downright Dickensian $7.25 currently required...

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Surviving Torture, Then Fighting to Banish It

(0) Comments | Posted October 22, 2012 | 12:02 PM

When presidential candidate Mitt Romney endorsed a return to "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, it was a troubling reminder that the debate over torture's efficacy -- and even its morality -- still drones on. Romney's embrace of torture has been echoed this year alone by former Vice...

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What Would George Do?

(3) Comments | Posted July 3, 2012 | 7:36 PM

As we celebrate liberty and democracy on July 4th, let us ask what our founding fathers would have had to say about the current torture debate.

July 4th patriotism takes many forms. For some of us, Independence Day is a perfect opportunity to measure the state of our nation against...

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Hope and Change: The Arab Spring Dominated the Headlines, But 2011 Saw Other Landmark Human Rights Victories

(1) Comments | Posted December 9, 2011 | 9:55 AM

There's little doubt that 2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, and rightly so. While it's too early to predict the ultimate fate of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and other Middle Eastern countries, the popular uprisings in these nations represented nothing less than an epic battle for...

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Tortuous Logic: Bin Laden's Death Should Not Be Used as a Pretext To Divide the Public on Torture

(18) Comments | Posted May 13, 2011 | 4:45 PM

With the death of Osama bin Laden, torture apologists are having a field day, claiming that the al Qaeda leader's demise was made possible by the kind of illegal interrogation techniques championed by the Bush Administration.

I decided to run this idea by one of our clients, Abdoulaye,...

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Atrocities Notwithstanding, 2010 Saw Major Progress on Human Rights

(0) Comments | Posted December 10, 2010 | 11:22 AM

On December 10, the international community will mark the 60th annual Human Rights Day, celebrating the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

But how did the world fare this year in the arena of human rights?

On many fronts, the news was dismal, with...

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Dying for a Living: As Global Economic Crisis Continues, Union Activists in Many Countries Pay the Ultimate Price

(44) Comments | Posted September 5, 2010 | 11:48 AM

On June 19, Ibio Efrén Caicedo, a teacher and trade union activist in Colombia, was murdered. He was the seventh unionized teacher killed this year in that country's Antioquia region.

Caicedo's murder was hardly an anomaly. More than 100 union activists were killed in 2009, according to a report...

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