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My Grandmother Takes a Stand for Gay Marriage in Church Despite Loving Glenn Beck

Mike Elk | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics


Mike Elk

To label all these Glenn Beck followers as unreachable, bigoted racists is an extraordinarily dangerous and misleading move for the progressive movement, which aims to include all people.

Turning Up the Pressure on the U.S Chamber of Commerce

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green


Josh Nelson

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.

Rubber Chickens in Reading...

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Joe The Nerd Ferraro

As I start to exhale, I am realizing, personally, that Specter is not right for Pennsylvania at this time.

America Needs Warriors for Justice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics


Stewart Acuff

It is clear that if we are to win the change we voted for last fall, and that many of us have worked for for years, we are gonna have to fight hard, and fight outside the normal Washington lobbying box.

New Reason for Devotion to Employee Free Choice Act

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Leo W. Gerard

For Ted Kennedy, for Crystal Lee Sutton, for us all, America ought to have the Employee Free Choice Act.

Friday Talking Points [91] -- Win One For Teddy

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.

Reid: Employee Free Choice Act Off The Table For Now

Las Vegas Review Journal | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics


Reid also said the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make union-organizing easier through measures such as card-check votes and mandatory binding ...

Teabaggers Are To Congresspeople What Union-Busters Are To Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Mike Elk

The right wing is creating a climate of fear in which no logical argument can be made.

Specter: My Record On EFCA Is Consistent

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


In a letter to the editor published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said his views on the Employee Free Choice A...

Workers' Rights Are Civil Rights

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


Leo W. Gerard

This week the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar's lot really, but still corporations across America decried it.

The Church and the Employee Free Choice Act

Stewart Acuff | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


Stewart Acuff

I'm neither a Roman Catholic scholar nor a Biblical scholar, but I can read, and the Pope's language is crisp and clear: restrain the greed of the markets; protect workers; pass the EFCA.

Who Is at the Table?

Dave Johnson | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business


Dave Johnson

Progressives believe in a "we're all in this together" philosophy while conservatives follow a "you are on your own" philosophy. The differences betwe...

EFCA Opponent Runs Ad Suggesting Unions Gag Employees With Duct Tape

The Plum Line | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics


A top union is demanding that an Arkansas TV station yank a new ad being run by the "Dr. Evil" of pro-business lobbyists that depicts workers as mobbe...

CNBC Fail: Iran elections = Employee Free Choice Act?

Michael Whitney | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business


Michael Whitney

Yesterday, CNBC reporters made a ridiculous, irresponsible statement. They compared the aftermath of Iran's recent election to what would happen under the Employee Free Choice Act.

Jason Linkins

CNBC's Erin Burnett Compares EFCA to Ahmadinejad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics


Burnett compared the lack of a "secret ballot" in Iran to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow unions to form via signed cards. Yes, on CNBC, "card check" equals creeping Ahmadinejadism.

Collective Bargaining For America

Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics


Stewart Acuff

It should be abundantly clear and obvious by now that unions and collective bargaining are not economic culprits but are essential to long term, sustainable economic well being.

Holocaust Museum Shooting Demostrates Need for Employee Free Choice

Dave Johnson | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business


Dave Johnson

Security guards at the Holocaust Museum had tried to get protective vests from the company that employs them. The company didn't want to bother with this "cost." Now a guard is dead.

Sam Stein

Labor Takes New EFCA Tact: Targets Business On Arbitration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


Scroll down to see the ad In what is a tactical shift in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor community is going after business, c...

GM Bankruptcy Hurts People of Color Hardest. Workers Desperately Need EFCA.

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business


Seth Freed Wessler

In the economy we've inherited from the last three decades of deregulation and declining union density, people of color are increasingly relegated to low-wage, precarious work that pays too little to support a family.

In Praise of Injustice (Accentuate the Negative)

Eli Dansky | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics


Eli Dansky

Let's restore despair and self-righteousness, along with shame/fearmongering, to their rightful places in the activist's arsenal.

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

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business


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.

Ryan Grim

Senate Dems Hold EFCA Strategy Session

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics


Senate Democratic leaders met Thursday afternoon in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, two sources familiar with the meeting say, to discuss ...

Karl Rove: Let's Debate Employee Free Choice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics


Stewart Acuff

Karl Rove, I challenge you to debate the Employee Free Choice Act. You can pick the time and place, but you cannot limit the audience or exclude the media.

Spilling the Beans About Starbucks' Union-Busting Tactics

ZP Heller | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics


ZP Heller

Turns out the coffee giant has a nasty history of being anti-barista, anti-union, and thus anti-Employee Free Choice Act as well.

What Do Starbucks and Wal-Mart Have in Common?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics


Robert Greenwald

There are over 127,000 baristas in our country alone, many of whom are in dire need of better wages, health benefits, and hours. Shouldn't they have the right to be treated fairly?