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The Change We Deserve

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: MIchael Barone, Bob Mcdonnell, 2009 Election, Doug Hoffman, ED Hill, Ibew, Employee Free Choice Act, Bill Owens, Afl-Cio, Club for Growth, Ny-23, Congress, Conservative Party, Unions, Dede Scozzafava, Politics News
Edwin D. Hill

It didn't take long for the anti-worker far right to try to spin the results of the 2009 elections as a mandate for their pro-corporate agenda.

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Liberal Elitism Will Make Sarah Palin President - How Only Union Organizing Can Stop It

Mike Elk | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teaparty, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, Employee Free Choice Act, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Mike Elk

The experiences of liberal elites are so outside of the mainstream that, very often, they just don't understand the working class. Very few have any experience living with or knowing working-class people.

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President Obama After One Year

Dean Baker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, President Obama, Cap and Trade, Finance, Employee Free Choice Act, Progressives, Alan Greenspan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dean Baker

A year after President Obama's election, progressives can say that we got pretty much what we had a right to expect: a centrist agenda in office.

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Sam Stein

World Series Stars Push Employee Free Choice Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newspaper Ad, Baseball Stars, Employee Free Choice Act, Employee Free Chioce Act World Series, Efca World Series, Efca Ad, Politics News

The labor community has largely put on the back burner its efforts to pass the Employee Free Choice Act -- wary that the pro-organizing provision lack...

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Maybe Conservatism is Dead?

Stewart Acuff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stewart Acuff, Labor Movement, Afl-Cio, President Obama, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

The leaders of the Republican Party and the ideologues of conservatism have no answers for any of the problems that our country and our people are trying to deal with.

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Shall We Take This Opportunity To Eradicate the Middle Class?

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Unemployment, Employee Free Choice Act, Jobs, Health Care, Unemployment Insurance, Stimulus, Minimum Wage, Steven Davis, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Despite the overblown criticism of the latest stimulus jobs numbers, job creation is lagging in the United States and the economy is clearly not working for the majority of American middle-class households.

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

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, General Electric, Ed Markey, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, President Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, PNM Resources, Accce, San Jose Chamber of Commerce, Alcoa, Climate Change, Americans With Disabilities Act, New Yorker, Apple, Nike, Kevin Grandia, Adam Green, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, PG&E, Blue America, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Politics, Service Employees International Union, Exelon, CREDO Mobile, Global Warming, Family and Medical Leave Act, Political News, Steven Chu, Efca, Natural Resources Defense Council, Duke Energy, Health Care, Chamber of Commerce, Senator Graham, Frank Knapp, Levi Strauss, Move On, Seiu, Entergy, Psef, Green News
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.

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Rachel Maddow vs. "Dr. Evil": Smackdown over Rick Berman's Corporate Funding (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn, Rachel Maddow, Employee Free Choice Act, Dr. Evil, Rick Berman, Politics News
Art Levine

Berman has established a bevy of anti-reform "non-profit" websites that enable him to attack everything from ACORN to unions to MADD while defending trans-fats and a low minimum wage as good for the economy.

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America Needs Warriors for Justice

Stewart Acuff | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stewart Acuff, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Politics News
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.

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A Real Employee Free Choice Act

Wall Street Journal | Matt Miller | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Business Roundtable, Health Care Reform, Employee Free Choice Act, Chamber of Commerce, Health Care, Business News

As health reform legislation hurtles toward its finale, corporate America has rushed to the barricades to make sure that big business remains at the h...

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ReThinking Norma Rae: A Union Icon Falls Fighting the Healthcare Industry

Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Employee Free Choice Act, Crystal Lee Sutton, Health Care Reform, Rethink Reviews, Norma Rae, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Jonathan Kim, Health Care, Labor Unions, Unions, Movie Critic, Healthcare, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

We should be thankful that Crystal Lee Sutton's struggle to help the working poor has been immortalized in a film as great as Norma Rae for generations to enjoy and be inspired by.

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Specter Tells AFL-CIO He Backs Employees' Choice

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Arlen Specter, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Joe Sestak, President Obama, Politics News

PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took another step in his political transformation on Tuesday, telling hundreds of labor activists t...

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New Reason for Devotion to Employee Free Choice Act

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Steel Workers Union, Union Card Checks, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice, Efca, United Steelworkers, Leo Gerard, Unions, Labor Unions, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

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

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Happy 'Enlightened' Labor Day

James P. Hoffa | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Unions, Labor Day, Business News
James P. Hoffa

Workers need the chance to decide for themselves -- without being spied on, threatened, or fired -- whether to join a union. The Employee Free Choice Act would give them that chance.

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The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform

Ron Gettelfinger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Uaw, Medicare, Public Option, Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Kennedy, Ron Gettelfinger, Politics News
Ron Gettelfinger

Healthy economies and healthy communities require good jobs and good wages. The collective voice of a union is the only instrument workers have to put a check on corporate power.

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The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform

Ron Gettelfinger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Uaw, Medicare, Public Option, Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Kennedy, Ron Gettelfinger, Politics News
Ron Gettelfinger

Healthy economies and healthy communities require good jobs and good wages. The collective voice of a union is the only instrument workers have to put a check on corporate power.

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AFL-CIO Official Implies He Can Live Without Card Check

Wall Street Journal | Melanie Trottman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor-Reform, Labor Unions, Card Check, Richard Trumka, Politics News

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka offered a hint that, just maybe, the labor movement is willing compromise on the so-called card-check provi...

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Labor-Environmental Coalition Targets Wal-Mart

The Washington Post | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Walmart, Environmental Groups, Ufcw, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Health Care, Low Wages, Green, Business, Home News

Labor groups renewed their campaign against Wal-Mart on Tuesday, launching a coalition that calls for improvements in the company's wages, health care...

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Ted, May You Be in Heaven, Cloture, Win One for Teddy, Employee Free Choice Act, Public Universities, Irish Wake, Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Filibuster, Politicizing, Reform, Politicize, Democratic, Friday Talking Points, Paul Wellstone, Funeral, Video, Edward Kennedy, Mayor Quimby, Simpsons, Senator, Chow-Dah, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Public Education, Public University, Health Care, Reid, Diamond Joe Quimby, Irish, Card Check, Massachusetts, Democrat, Medicaid, Majority Leader, The Simpsons, Democrats, Efca, Springfield, The Simpsons Movie, USA Today, Contest, Edward M Kennedy, Mddotw, Eulogy, Chris Weigant, Health, Uncle Ted, Senator Kennedy, Harry Reid, Medicare, Irish Toast, Socialism, Higher Education, Wellstone, Teddy, Up or Down Vote, Quimby, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
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.

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Reid: Employee Free Choice Act Off The Table For Now

Las Vegas Review Journal | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dems Efca, Harry Reid, Reid Employee Free Choice Act, Employee Free Choice Act, Reid Efca, Efca, Harry Reid Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News

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

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The Kennedy Legacy vs. Glenn Beck's Lies About Reform "Murdering" Small Businesses

Art Levine | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Main Street Alliance, Glenn Beck, Small Business, Randall Terry, Rep. Jim Moran, Health Care, Employee Free Choice Act, American Rights at Work, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Art Levine

Contrary to conservative myth-making, it's not just workers who would benefit from the right to get accessible, affordable health-care, but small businesses too.

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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Nation, Grittv, The American Prospect, Employee Free Choice Act, Housing, Truthdig, Racial Equality, Economy, Scandal, Salon, Ubs, Weekly Audit, Net Work, Mortgage, Unemployment, The Media Consortium, Labor Laws, Bank, Zach Carter, Tmc, Politics News
The Media Consortium

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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Fighting the Radical Right

Stewart Acuff | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afl-Cio, Employee Free Choice Act, Stewart Acuff, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

The August congressional recess has been a bizarre season of rightwing brown shirt tactics of real thuggery led by Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich.

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We Need More Wellstone/Tasini Democrats in the Senate

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Honduras Coup, Raul Grijalva, Employee Free Choice Act, Exit Strategy, Honduras, Medicare for All, Afghanistan, Jim McGovern, Jonathan Tasini, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Robert Naiman

If it were up to the House, we wouldn't be talking about dropping the public option for health insurance. Maybe we'd be talking about Medicare for All. That's why we need more progressive fighters in the Senate.

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Fact Checking Lanny Davis on Honduras

Greg Grandin | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras, Employee Free Choice Act, Lanny Davis, Democracy Now, Roberto Micheletti, Zelaya, Honduran Coup, World News
Greg Grandin

I debated lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! Below is a list of Davis's major lies followed by fact checks.

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