Bernie Marcus

Jon Ward

Home Depot Founder Knocks Obama's Business Adviser, Says Entrepreneurs Fear Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Taxes, Whole Foods, Small Business, Unemployment, Mike Whalen, President Obama, Jobs, Regulation, Economic Uncertainty, Bernie Marcus, Job Creation, Home Depot, Jeff Immelt, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Bernie Marcus, the billionaire founder and former CEO of Home Depot, is not a fan of President Obama's policies. He's also no big admire...

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Labor Unions, the Economy, and the EFCA

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S Economy, Efca, Labor, Bernie Marcus, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Economy, Business News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

The Employee Free Choice Act could lead to a re-empowerment of labor in the face of corporate greed and the possibility of restoring sanity and balance to a system that stacks the deck in favor of the wealthy.

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Three Ways Synagogues Can Learn From Churches

Benyamin Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Synagogue, Church, Judaism, Evangelical Christians, Synagogue 3000, Business Lessons, Jewish, Rick Warren, Jesus, Christianity, Bernie Marcus, Customer Service, Evangelicals, Religion News
Benyamin Cohen

It wouldn't hurt a synagogue to put some restroom signs up or grab a bucket of paint and mark a few spots in their parking lot for newcomers. It would go a long way.

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Haitian Business Crushed--Not by Earthquake, But by Home Depot

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racial Discrimination, Haitian Relief, Bernie Marcus, Home Depot, Ku Klux Klan, Staffmark, Tempnapping, Business News
Al Norman

A Haitian immigrant who built a multi-million business in New Jersey is now fighting to survive financially -- a victim not of the recent earthquake in his native country -- but of racial discrimination in America.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup Inc., ?€œNo Holds Barred?, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Secret Ballot Elections, Wal-Mart, Union Organizers, Interrogation, Threats, Cornell University, Employee Free Choice Act, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Surveillance, Stewart Acuff, Usw, Afl-Cio, United Steelworkers, American Middle Class, Home Depot, National Labor Relations Board, Harassment, National Labor Relations Act, Efca, Aig, Bank of America, Public Sector, Bailout Money, Nlrb, Glenn Spencer, Bernie Marcus, Randel K. Johnson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.

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Sam Stein

Unions File Complaint To Strip Anti-Labor Group's Tax Status

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irs Lawsuit, Berman Center for Union Facts, Rick Berman, Irs Lawsuit Tax Status, Union Lawsuit, Afl-Cio, Marcus Foundation, Change to Win, Bernie Marcus, Lawsuit, Politics News

Two of the nation's largest unions have filed a joint complaint with the IRS, urging the agency to revoke the tax-exempt status of two organizations f...

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Sam Stein

Good Gov't Groups: Are Corporations Using Bailout Money To Fund Political Campaigns?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marcus Call, Bailout Recipients Hosted Call to Defeat Key Labor Bill, Employee Free Chioce Act, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Key Labor Bill, Bank of America, Letter Congress, Marcus Berman Call, Conference Call, Employee Free Choice Act Call, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act Fight, Bernie Marcus, Bank of America Bailout, Good Government Groups, Berman Call, Politics News

Reform groups are blasting letters to congressional committee chairs and the head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, urging an investigation into w...

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Sam Stein

Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marcus Call, Employee Free Choice Act, Conference Call, Rick Berman, Bank of America, Efca, Audio Employee Free Chioce Act, Key Labor Bill, Employee Free Choice Act Fight, Employee Free Choice Act Call, Marcus Berman Call, Bailout Recipients Hosted Call to Defeat Key Labor Bill, Bailout Bandits, Berman Call, Anti-Union, Bank of America Bailout, Bernie Marcus, Oregon, Politics News

Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and busine...

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About EFCA (But Were Afraid To Ask)

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Efca, Obama Transition, Barbara Ehrenreich, Employee Free Choice Act, Barack Obama, Howie Klein, Seiu, Michael Whitney, Jim Boehner, Labor Rights, Lee Scott, Employee Rights, Bernie Marcus, Unions, Labor Unions, Wal-Mart, Business News
ZP Heller

We're so close to passing the Employee Free Choice Act that we must dispel the last-minute attempts by anti-labor politicians to quash our efforts of standing up for working people.

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Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"

The Oxdown Gazette | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Depot, Home Depot Founder, Norm Coleman, Bernie Marcus Norm Coleman, Efca, Bernie Marcus, Politics News

This is what Home Depot's founder Bernie Marcus said on a conference call yesterday: "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not ...

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