David Cote

The American Business Community's Collective-Action Problem

Charles Kolb | Posted 03.07.2012

Charles Kolb

Many observers question whether today's business leaders have a heart when it comes to their role in the country's growing income disparity. A more appropriate question might be to ask whether they have a head.

Zach Carter

Obama's Close Ties To CEOs Whose Firms Dodge Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.01.2011

WASHINGTON -- As the nation struggles with a stagnant economy, President Barack Obama has preached overhauling the U.S. tax code to spur economic grow...

Health Care: Fighting Common Sense With Dogma

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 08.02.2011

Gary Liberson, PhD

You can't look at a paper without some politician sermonizing on how we spend too much on health care. The question is: Can we reduce the cost of getting sick or, better yet, reduce the likelihood of illness?

Obama, CEO Lovefest Produces No Pledges to Create Jobs, Stop Union Busting

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Obama reportedly asked business leaders what he could do to help create more jobs in America. Perhaps he should have asked these CEOs why, despite numerous pledges to keep good jobs in America, they continue to ship them overseas.

Locked Out Honeywell Workers Kicked Out of Fiscal Commission Meeting

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Locked out workers at Honeywell's Metropolis, Illinois uranium facility have been traveling all over the country to meet with Honeywell CEO David Cote to discuss ending the current lockout.

ABC's Amanpour Refuses to Ask Honeywell CEO About Locked Out Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

The case of the Metropolis plant lockout confirms what many of us already know: when journalists stop caring about worker's struggles, the natural result is that politicians like President Obama don't need to care either.

Jon Stewart Rally Represents Elitism, Consumerism, and Disrespect for the Progressive Movement

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Stewart's rally is not a political event aimed at informing grassroots progressive activists such as union members. It is an "entertainment event," in the tradition of Glenn Beck, aimed at increasing ratings so Comedy Central can make bigger profits.

Honeywell, America's Top Political Donor, Has Received $13 Billion in Federal Money

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Honeywell has used their increased fundraising clout to build a close relationship with the White House. Obama cites Honeywell CEO David Cote as one of his closest advisors in the business community.

Deficit Commissioners Prefer to Give Our Troops Unsafe Food Than Reform Defense Spending

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

As we look at how to cut our deficit, we should be looking at reforming defense spending practices with poor oversight that endanger the security of our troops, not cutting Social Security which is vital to everyone's economic security.

New Leader In Political Giving

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Amid this year's heated debate over corporate campaign cash, the top donor to House and Senate campaigns is a company that was an also-ran in politica...

Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run by Scab Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Workers and local community members see this explosion as evidence that the quickly trained replacement workers are not qualified to operate the plant.

Labor Day Irony: The People Who Want to Cut Social Security All Have Great Retirement Plans

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard (RJ) Eskow

If the Deficit Commission members want their recommendations for cuts to have any credibility, they should pledge to live on the same Social Security benefits that they would impose for other Americans.

Ryan Grim

David Cote Is Second Deficit Commission Member To Come Under Fire

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

A second member of the deficit commission is coming under fire from an ally of President Obama, as the Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees is ...

Nuclear Regulators Prohibit Honeywell to Resume Production at Facility With Locked-Out Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Elk

Currently, the "scab" workers running the plant are unfamiliar with the system they are using. This is a uranium enrichment facility from which even the slightest leak of UF6 could wipe out the entire town.