Steve Rosenthal is President of They Work for Us and on the board of Working for Us PAC. Previously, Steve was a founder and CEO of America Coming Together (ACT), an organization aimed at empowering and mobilizing progressive voters. Prior to that, Steve served for seven years as political director of the AFL-CIO, where he helped put working families back at the center of the national debate. In the early 90s Steve was Associate Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor and Deputy Political Director for the DNC under Chairman Ron Brown. Steve spent years in the labor movement with CWA and has managed and consulted with congressional, state and local campaigns, and worked in several presidential efforts. He is president of The Organizing Group, a consulting firm that specializes in grassroots voter contact.

Blog Entries by Steve Rosenthal

Why Bringing about Armageddon is a Good Thing

Posted March 10, 2009 | 11:53 AM (EST)


Big Business is in an outraged panic.

"This is the demise of a civilization. This is how a civilization disappears." - Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot.

Is it that we've lost more jobs faster in the last three months than in any period since 1974, resulting in a...

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What An Outrage: Obama Nominates a Pro-Worker Labor Secretary

34 Comments | Posted February 10, 2009 | 06:14 PM (EST)


Shocking. What can he possibly be thinking? Clearly President Obama does not "get" how things are supposed to work at the Department of Labor. The very idea of nominating someone who has been a lifelong leader and advocate for workers to be the Secretary of Labor is outrageous. (Note that...

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Union, Yes or No? -- It Depends on How You Ask

24 Comments | Posted February 5, 2009 | 11:14 AM (EST)


In my 30+ years working in politics, I have poured over more polling questionnaires than I care to remember. And if a pollster ever had the gall to put a question as ridiculous and misleading as the one in the new "poll" put out by the corporate-front-group otherwise known...

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Employee Free Choice Act Gives Workers a Fair and Democratic Chance to Form Unions

110 Comments | Posted February 1, 2009 | 04:19 PM (EST)


The Employee Free Choice Act, the legislation supported by President Obama and large majorities of both houses of congress WILL NOT ELIMINATE SECRET BALLOTS IN UNION REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS (PERIOD).

Opponents like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a range of right-wing front groups led by disciples of George W....

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They work for us - and we won't let them forget it!

Posted January 23, 2007 | 11:40 AM (EST)


The November 7th elections were a watershed for America's workers. The tyranny imposed by years of GOP control has ended. That should end the string of anti-worker and anti-family policies imposed by the Republican Party and their corporate allies.

It should end. But it doesn't mean it will. Unfortunately,...

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