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NHLPA: So What Is the Rumpus and Why is It Important?

B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gary Bettman, Mike Ouellet, Chris Chelios, Dave Poulin, Ted Saskin, Nhl, Bob Goodenow, Paul Kelly, Nhlpa, Ian Penny, Labor, Mayhem, Union, Entertainment News

No, this isn't the Coen Brothers gem of a movie. This is what has been happening to heads of the NHL's Player Association ever since Bob Goodenow stepped down.

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US Chamber of Commerce Hates "Buy America" Slogan

Mike Papantonio | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Air America, Pap Attack, Apple, Nike, Buy American, Tom Donahue, Union, GoLeft.Tv, Golefttv, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Ring of Fire, Climate Change, Business News

The organization that use to represent small business interests has morphed into a lapdog that serves a new master. That master is international mega-corporations.

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Upcoming HBO Documentary Views Economic Crisis Through a New Lens

Bruce Raynor | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Hbo, Labor, Workers, HBO Documentaries, Labor Unions, Union, Seiu, Workers United, Schmatta, Entertainment News

Anyone who cares about maintaining the middle-class in this country should see Schmatta. The film tells a storied history and raises questions that are central to the future of the American Dream.

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Women and People of Color Down for the Count in Jobless Recovery

Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Labor, Unemployment, Underemployment, Union Blogs, Arlene Holt Baker, Unemployment Rate, Unions, Union, Home News

A close look at the unemployment figures shows that while white males are taking it on the chin in this recession, women and people of color are down ...

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Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Bill of Rights, The People, Eighteenth Century, State, Wickard v Filburn, Secession, James Madison, Secede, Democratic, Scotus, Civil War, Perry, Governor, President, John C Calhoun, Republican, Jefferson, Pawlenty, Gonzales v Raich, New Yorker, Federal Government, Bonkers in Georgia, Union, Nullification Crisis, Rick Perry, Virginia Resolution, Kentucky Resolutions, States, State Sovereignty, Hertzberg, Alabama, States Rights, Democrat, Congress, Thomas Jefferson, Texas, 10th Amendment, Democrats, Minnesota, Hendrik Hertzberg, John Calhoun, Tenth Amendment, Nullification, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Madison, South Carolina, Georgia, Tim Pawlenty, Court, Calhoun, Politics News

The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

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Star Spangled Banner, Union Jack, or White: Which is the Flag of True Power?

Isha Judd | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Living News, Enlightenment, Surrender, Dogs, Spirituality, War, White Flag, English Bulldog, Jack Stars and Stripes, Union, Living News

Our society is always fighting, arguing, debating. We consider peace to be the ideal, but in reality, we feed off conflict, both in our personal lives and on a world scale.

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Don't Let Wells Fargo Be a Roadblock to Economic Recovery

ZP Heller | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Wells-Fargo, Timothy Geithner, Congress, Barack Obama, Bailout, Economy, Seiu, Mike Elk, Banks, Illinois, Hartmarx, Union, Business News

100 Quad City factory employees risk losing their jobs if Wells Fargo doesn't extend tens of thousands of dollars in credit to continue day-to-day operating costs.

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Obama Will Still Be Able to Get His Suits Made in Chicago

Elana Levin | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Labor, Hartmarx Obama, Hartmarx Bankruptcy, Hartmarx, Union, Wells Fargo, Workers United, Business News

Hart Schaffner & Marx employees (famous for making suits for Obama) saved the suit maker's factories from threats of liquidation by TARP-infused creditor Wells Fargo bank.

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Union Targets Democrats With Significant Online EFCA Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Employee Free Choice Act, David Vitter, Labor Union Efca, Union Democrats, Jim Webb, Democrats Seiu, Blanche Lincoln, Union, Politics News

One of the nation's largest unions is making a significant ad purchase targeting four Democrats and one Republican Senator on the Employee Free Choice...

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Broadening the Campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act

Stewart Acuff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln, Workers, Employee Free Choice Act, Union Organizing, Afl-Cio, Stewart Acuff, Union, Politics News

The campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act continues to broaden.

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Unions Attack Starbucks With New Media Campaign (VIDEO)

Posted 06.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Howard Schultz, Starbucks Union Busting, StopStarbucks.Com, Starbucks, Unionization, Starbucks Workers Union, Starbucks Coffee, Union, Business News

The ubiquitous coffee giant Starbucks has long been lauded for its corporate culture and employee benefits. But the Los Angeles Times reports this mor...

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Starbucks's Health Care Policy Is Sickening

ZP Heller | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Howard Schultz, Starbucks, Health Insurance, Employee Free Choice, Barista, Union, Business News

The shocking truth about Starbucks' health care policy and anti-labor practices belie the company's "progressive" veneer.

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Welch Criticizes Obama On Chrysler Bankruptcy

bloomberg.com | Tom Moroney | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Chrysler Bankruptcy, General Electric, Chrysler, Jack Welch, Chrysler Bailout, United-Auto-Workers, Barack Obama, Union, Chrysler-Bondholders, Chrys Creditors, Business News

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Jack Welch, former chief executive officer of General Electric Co., criticized the government- backed bankruptcy of Chrysler LLC...

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Education Reform's Big Stake

Marc Lampkin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Failing, Education, Achievement Gap, Reform, Minority, Teacher, Status Quo, Union, Classroom, Lampkin, Politics News

As we approach the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the reality is there are still great inequities in the quality of education delivered to students.

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A Fairness Issue

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but bands of robbers?" - St Augustine. I was surprised when Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) opened up his remarks before ...

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Solidarity for Never

Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Union, Republicans and Unions, Politics News

In the wake of this economic meltdown, maybe it's time to put to rest the conservative canard that respecting workers' rights to unionize and to bargain collectively is tantamount to a communist coup d'etat.

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Alinsky's Legacy, Obama and Labor's Challenge

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Saul Alinsky, Social Justice, Organizing, Change, Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Community Organizing, Obama, Unions, Social Activism, Union, Barack Obama, Politics News

Until Obama, I had always viewed the White House as synonymous with "the boss" or the "management" of a facility who instills fear into workers when they try to organize.

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A Labor Secretary Who is Actually Pro-Union

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Organizing, Labor, Employee Free Chioce Act, Hilda Solis, Seiu, Secretary of Labor, Obama, Unions, Union, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

Once the employer realizes his/her employees are willing to stand up for better pay, more affordable healthcare, and better working conditions by forming a union, they begin to fight.

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Make Wall Street Take The Same Deal The Autoworkers Get

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Private Jets, White House, Autoworkers, Economics, 350 Billion, Private Jet, Bailouts, Jets Corporate Jet, Christopher Cox, Gail Vida Hamburg, Charles Schumer, Income, Bush, Krugman, Automakers, Big Three, Auto Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Politics, Jet, Bailout, Treasury, Paul Krugman, Big 3, Tarp, Union, Detroit, Comparison-Shopping, 700 Billion, Sec, Gm, Investment Banks, Bruce Raynor, Executive, Compensation, Car Companies, Chrysler, Nobel Prize, Schumer, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Ceo, Salary, Banks, Fox News, Unions, Senate, Republicans, Ponzi, Business News

If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.

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Obama Embraces Chicago Factory Sit-In: Symbol of New Wave of Activism

Peter Dreier | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Workers, Chicago, Protest, Obama, Sit-In, Union, Bush, Republic Windows and Doors, Recession, Business News

The bold factory take-over by the Republic workers in Chicago may be a fluke, or it just could be the opening salvo of a new wave of grassroots activism inspired by Obama's campaign.

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The Gray Lady Bitchslaps Auto Workers

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Automakers, Big Three, Uaw, Bailout, Chrysler, Gm, Economy, Ron Gettelfinger, Ford, New York Times, Cars, Poor, Union, Business News

The Big Three claim their industry is tanking not because of their refusal to change their gas-guzzling car designs, but because evil workers are demanding their contractually promised benefits.

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GOP Blames Unions for Detroit's Ills

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business

Read More: GoLeft TV, Taxes, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Fox News, Big 3, Neil Cavuto, Uaw, Bailout, Economy, Detroit, Automaker Bailout, Video, Automaker, Bailout Outrage, Business News

The failures of the "Big 3" had nothing to do with union workers, as the GOP has been saying. It had to do with the fact that these industries didn't adapt to the times

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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Automotive Industry, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Detriot, Uaw, Organized Labor, Bailout, Ring of Fire, Union Busting, Economy, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Walmart Unions, Economic Policy Institute, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Richard Shelby, The Big 3, Epi, Big Three Automakers, Jim Demint, Detroit Three, Ford, Afl-Cio, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News

If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.

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$7 Trillion Meltdown 101: How We Got Here, What to Do Now

Art Levine | Posted 02.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Paulson, Meltdown, Economic Crisis, Auto Industry, Uaw, Bailout, Union, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News

It's worth it for non-economists to better understand how got into this mess -- and how to get out of it.

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Obama's Theme of Unity Motivates Unionists

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Bob Casey, Democratic National Convention, Ohio, Usw, Organized Labor, Pennsylvania, Steelworker, Bill Richardson, Barack Obama, Union, North Carolina, Steel Blitz for Barack, Politics News

More than 10,000 Steelworkers have volunteered their time to ensure Barack Obama's election.

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