More Questions About the US Chamber's Membership Number Claim
With more voices saying clearly that US Chamber of Commerce does not represent them, the Chamber's membership numbers are looking more and more questionable.
With more voices saying clearly that US Chamber of Commerce does not represent them, the Chamber's membership numbers are looking more and more questionable.
Pete Altman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
One reason for the Chamber's decline may be the result of what the Chamber's positioning communicates to businesses and lawmakers alike.
Pete Altman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
If the media briefing late last week was supposed to make things better for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the face of an onslaught of major defections over its climate extremism, it didn't.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.
Pete Altman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
The Chamber's tone-deaf response to the situation is contributing to reputation damage that is hurting the organization's credibility.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
This has been a very rough year for Iceland, and it's not likely to get better anytime soon. The public's anger continues to grow, and it would not be surprising if this winter sees a repeat of last winter's uprising.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
The refineries in this country still using unnecessarily hazardous hydrofluoric acid must ensure their workers and the residents of their neighborhoods live to see Labor Day 2010.
Sarah Newman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green
You, like millions of other Americans, probably regularly use and consume products made with Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical that is a $6 billion global industry.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
Unfortunately, in Iceland, as elsewhere, we're numbed by the continuous stream of bad economic news and appear in danger of forgetting what we were fighting for.
AP | DANIEL LOVERING | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
PITTSBURGH — In a bleak start to the earnings season, Alcoa Inc. reported a quarterly loss of $497 million, as the stumbling global economy cont...
Reuters | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Alcoa Inc (AA.N) shares fell on Tuesday, hours before the aluminum producer was scheduled to report what was expected to be a se...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business
Financial skulduggery, judging from the latest and sharply increasing number of stock trading investigations, is unmistakably on the rise.
AP | DANIEL LOVERING | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
PITTSBURGH — Alcoa Inc., the world's third-largest aluminum maker, said Tuesday it will cut 13,500 jobs, or 13 percent of its work force, and sl...
Green Inc. | James Kanter | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green
The hugely popular Icelandic singer Björk has gone into battle with another of the island's big exports - aluminum. Björk says the aluminum product...
Envrionmental Capital | Keith Johnson | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green
Big U.S. companies obviously want a seat at the table when it's time to draw up America's plan to fight climate change. A year after issuing its "Call...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business
Global corporations have set up a situation in which they are herding workers in a stampede to the bottom. So we created the first global union to face off unregulated multinational corporations.
AP | DANIEL LOVERING | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business
PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into allegations that Alcoa Inc. and affiliates bribed officials in the Persian ...
New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The corner offices of corporate America are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world. Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikr...
Pete Altman | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green