Rick Berman

Spin and Deception in the D.C. Subway

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Congress, Obamacare, Pwc, Ahip, Rick Berman, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Washington DC, Politics News

If you've been on the Metro in recent days, you might have seen an ad designed to make you feel sorry for our poor health insurance companies. So sorry that you'll call your congressman and demand he support a bill that would gut an important part of the health care reform law.

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Who Is Trying to Destroy the Humane Society?

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Charity Organizations, Humane Society of the United States, Oscars, Animal Rights, Front Groups, Animal Shelter, Pet Safety, Humane Society Ad, Hsus, Human Society Controversy, Humane Society Commercial, Mcdonalds, Rick Berman, Media News

Just as we require political ads to disclose the sources of their funding, we should make sure that these faceless front groups come out of the shadows and tell us up front -- on the ads themselves -- who exactly is paying for them.

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Lobbyist Poses as Mechanic in Anti-Union Super Bowl Ad (VIDEO)

Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Rick Berman, Anti-Union Super Bowl Ad, Rick Berman Lobby, Anti-Union Ad, Rick-Berman-Rachel-Maddow, Super Bowl Anti-Union Ad, Video, Media News

Look closely. One of these "mechanics" is sporting a gold watch, manicured hands, and a brand new shirt. That's because he's not a mechanic, or even an actor. He's Washington lobbyist Rick Berman.

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Anti-Union Front Group Launches Major Ad Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Video, Labor, Rick Berman, Orrin Hatch, American Rights at Work, Tim Scott, Labor Unions, Union Busting, Center-for-Union-Facts, Unions, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A D.C.-based front group representing corporate interests will be rolling out a $10 million national advertising campaign next week to p...

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Union Buster J. Justin Wilson Calls Me Outside, but Proves My Point About EFCA

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yachts, Walmart, Efca, Rick Berman, Wall Street, Center-for-Union-Facts, School-Yard, George W. Bush, Business News

I heard that J. Justin Wilson was going to meet me in the schoolyard for advocating for the Employee Free Choice Act. This guy is suppose to be the top researcher at the nation's top anti-worker front.

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Rachel Maddow Confronts Notorious Corporate Lobbyist Rick Berman (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rachel Maddow confronted notorious corporate lobbyist Rick Berman over his advocacy for corporate interests that are at best extremely questionable, a...

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We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.

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

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Rachel Maddow Takes on Corporate Agribusiness PR. Next Up, the Fight for Food Safety?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Food Safety, Usda, Fda, Meat Recall, Rachel Maddow, Interview, Rick Berman, Green News

Rachel Maddow continues her work pulling back the layers of American politics to expose underhanded and manipulative lobbying tactics to the public.

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EFCA Opponent Runs Ad Suggesting Unions Gag Employees With Duct Tape

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Rick Berman, Employee Free Choice Act, Mark Pryor, Efca, Service Employees International Union, Unions, Labor Unions, Seiu, Politics News

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...

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Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Diane Feinstein, Ben Nelson George McGovern, Mark Pryor, Rick Berman, Tom Harkin, Penny Pritzger, Afl-Cio, Michael Bennet, Jim Webb, Astroturf, Politics News

With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.

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The Big Lie about the Employee Free Choice Act

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Economy, Ceos, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Unions, Afscme, Hilda Solis, Democrats Efca, Efca, Obama, Unions Hilda Solis, Union Officials Efca, Afl-Cio Efca, Union Efca, Economic Recovery, Politics News

America's top CEOs have declared their top legislative priority for 2009 -- to scuttle the bipartisan legislation that would restore workers' freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.

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Union Allies Fight Back Against GOP "Meltdown Lobby" With IRS Complaint, Grass-Roots Campaigns

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afl-Cio, Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Economic Policy Institute, Rick Berman, Unions, Politics News

Republican leaders and their conservative big business allies, including the Chamber of Commerce, have gone after workers' rights ...

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Unions File Complaint To Strip Anti-Labor Group's Tax Status

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irs Lawsuit, Berman Center for Union Facts, Rick Berman, Irs Lawsuit Tax Status, Union Lawsuit, Afl-Cio, Marcus Foundation, Change to Win, Bernie Marcus, Lawsuit, Politics News

Two of the nation's largest unions have filed a joint complaint with the IRS, urging the agency to revoke the tax-exempt status of two organizations f...

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Unions Hold Firm on Employee Free Choice Act, Buoyed by Tough Ads, White House Support

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Obama, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Bruce Springsteen, Rick Berman, Video, Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, Barack Obama Unions, Politics News

An aggressive new ad campaign launched Sunday against the lies about the Employee Free Choice Act have clearly boosted the union cause.

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Good Gov't Groups: Are Corporations Using Bailout Money To Fund Political Campaigns?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reform groups are blasting letters to congressional committee chairs and the head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, urging an investigation into w...

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Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and busine...

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Human Rights Watch Backs Pro-Union Bill -- Did Anti-Union Bailout Barons Break Campaign Laws?

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank of America, Bailout, Home Depot, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Business News

While international law recognizes union organizing as a human right, the bailout barons were seeking to use some of the billions in taxpayer funds to rob those same taxpayers of the right to fairly form a union.

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Star Trek 11: The Obama Factor

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Klingon, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, William Shatner, J.J. Abrams, Rick Berman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cold War, Entertainment Weekly, Barack Obama, Star Trek, Spock, Paramount Studios, Politics, Star Trek: Enterprise, Brent Spiner, Zachary Quinto, Star Trek: Nemesis, Entertainment News, Mr. Spock, Star Trek: Voyager, Gerald Abrams, Farscape, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Leonard Nimoy, James T. Kirk, Gene Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Captain Kirk, Entertainment News

After years of inactivity, Star Trek has been re-energized by J.J. Abrams, and supposedly transformed in such a way that connects it to its roots while making it relevant again.

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Smithfield Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Economy, Human Rights Watch, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Free Trade, Usw, Medicaid, United Steelworkers, Walton Family, National Labor Relations Board, Global Corporations, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Tobacco Lobbyist, Agriprocessors Inc. Immigration, Kosher, Minimum Wage, Union Busters, Lance Compa, Health Insurance, Meatpacking, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Union, Undocumented, Business News

When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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