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Stella D'Oro's No-Win Solution

Dan Silverstein | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Brynwood Partners, Unfair Labor Practices, Nlrb, The Bronx, Unions, Stella D'Oro Strike, Bakery Workers Local 50, Stella D'Oro, Proskauer Rose, Capitalism, New York City, Bakery, Business News

It was as though the economic realities carried no resonance with these workers of the world. They failed to comprehend the most basic linkage between management's needs and their lives.

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Wake-Up Call For GOP's "Values" Hypocrites: Unions Are Pro-Family, Report Finds

Art Levine | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, The Family, Ensign, Employee Free Choice Act, Pickering, Afl-Cio, Sanford, In These Times, Unions, Seiu, Politics News

GOP officials have emphasized fighting gay marriage, supporting prayer in schools, and banning abortion as the keys to promoting family values.

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Unions Take A Hit With Employee Free Choice Act Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unions Card Check, Employee Free Choice Act, Afl-Cio Leaks, Majority Sign Up, Efca Union Community, Card Check, New York Times, Unions, Efca Unions, Politics News

Moderate Democrats have forced a key compromise to the Employee Free Choice Act, which removes one of the labor community's most cherished provisions ...

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Stella D'Oro Workers Fight Equity Fund's Plant Shutdown, Attack on Middle-Class Jobs

Art Levine | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Private Equity, Afl-Cio, Stella D'Oro Strike, Work Strike, Unions, Middle Class, Business News

"The strike marks an important turning point in the fight against the lowball tactics of private-equity firms determined to destroy unions to boost their own profits."

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Blocked Whistleblower Protections Put Obama Transparency Promises at Risk

Rob Kall | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whistleblowers, Justice, Barack Obama, Government Accountability, Unions, Politics News

For the last 30 years, whistleblower protection laws have been a sham, and whistleblowers need the opportunity to appear before a jury.

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EFCA Opponent Runs Ad Suggesting Unions Gag Employees With Duct Tape

The Plum Line | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

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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Wells Fargo Illegally Cheats Union Families by Cutting Off Health Care

Mike Elk | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Quad-City-Die-Casting, Unions, Wells Fargo, Business News

As Wells Fargo cuts off credit to Quad City and forces it to break its collective bargaining agreement with its workers, the bank has $25 billion in federal bailout funds that were intended in part to make credit more available to businesses.

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Victory at Smithfields: An Independence Day Symbol

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Justice, Ufcw, Unions, Smithfield-Foods, Working Life, Employee Free Choice Act, Independence Day, Fourth of July, Business News

When I think about what these workers went through -- the struggle, the fight, the commitment that held them together over so many dark days -- this is the America that inspires me.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Capitol Hill, White House, Debate, Family, Children, Scripture, Low Income Families, Legislation, Common Good, Values, Policy Debate, Single Payer, Sin, Health Care, Class, Faith, Private Insurance, Church, Fear, Leaders, Money, Politics, Biblical, Democrat, Congress, Health, Election, Families, Healthcare, Democrats, Moral Issues, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Republicans, Ethics, Partisan Politics, Unions, Medical Care, Partisan, Politics News

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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Growing Factory Occupations Threaten to Break the Banks

Mike Elk | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Labor, Chicago Factory Sit-In, Strikes, Wall Street, Martin Luther King, Financial Reform, Paul Krugman, Obama, Unions, Hartmarx, Barack Obama, Business News

The successful struggle at Republic Windows has provided a model under which workers can successfully fight the banks by occupying their plants.

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Why Is Rush Limbaugh Attacking Me?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Primaries, Class Warfare, Rush Limbaugh, Unions, New York, Senate, Jonathan Tasini, Maria Bartiromo, Media News

Thank you, Rush Limbaugh -- it's an honor to be attacked by you. When Rush attacks people who are trying to spread some honest truth -- in this case, ...

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Greenmailing: When Unhappy Laborers Use Green Causes To Hurt A Company

treehugger.com | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Greenmail, Green Energy, Green Business, Unions, Solar Power, Green News

How Greenmailing Works Now, on the surface, requesting that a company conduct environmental surveys before proceeding with a project seems like a pre...

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Latest Sell-Out: Dems Moving to Gut Chemical Security Bill, Risking Millions of Lives

Art Levine | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Chemical Security, Labor, Greenpeace, Chemical Industry, Unions, Chemical Plants, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Bill Maher, Green News

Democrats have apparently been cowed by intensive industry lobbying and Republican legislators' talking-points at recent hearings denouncing the new bill as a jobs-killer.

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"We Won't Work For Crumbs": Stella D'Oro Workers Set Precedent for Fighting Back!

Beth Borzone | Posted 07.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Stella D'Oro, Teachers, Workers, Unions, Labor Unions, Labor, Nysut, Economy, Stella D'Oro Strike, Jobs, New York, New York News

On Saturday May 30th, 800 striking Stella D'Oro workers rallied in the Bronx for better workers' rights in a bad economy. Two weeks later, is the movement taking hold?

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Why Does Chamber of Commerce Favor Arbitration for Workplace Rape Victims, But Oppose It for Union Workers?

Art Levine | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Unions, Jamie Lee Jones, Employee Free Choice Act, Npr, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, Rape, Arbitration, Seiu, Business News

What's especially galling is how fervently businesses embrace arbitration when it allows them to avoid being held accountable for negligence towards employees or the defrauding of consumers.

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CNBC's Erin Burnett Compares EFCA to Ahmadinejad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Efca, Iran, Video, Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check, Jim Cramer, Erin Burnett, Iran Elections, Unions, Politics News

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.

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Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch

Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., NY Times, Boston Globe, Newspapers, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Unions, Newspaper Industry, Media News

People will act against their own best interests when they think they are being treated unfairly. They may go down, but they're going to take the greedy bastards down with them.

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Binding Arbitration, Sooner the Better

Danny Glover | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Labor, Unite Here, Labor Unions, Unions, Seiu, Workers United, Danny Glover, Business News

I will always be a union activist, and I am proud of that. What I am not proud of is what the fight between UNITE HERE and Workers United/SEIU is doing to this movement I care so much about.

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Weekly Audit: Ending the Economic Status Quo Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, Payday Loans, Finance Lobby, Newsladder, Consumer Credit Products, Banking Lobby, Banking Industry, Economy NewsLadder, Predatory Lending Laws, Subprime Mortgages, Tax Cuts, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Interest Rates, Chris Dodd, Consumer Protection, Stimulus Package, Unions, Politics News

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger The banking lobby still holds enough sway inside the Beltway to torpedo sensible consumer protection rules, ev...

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The Case for a National Office of Transition

Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Green Jobs, Personal Health, War, President Obama, Green, Jobs, Drugs, Justice Department, Green Energy, War in Iraq, Iraq War, Labor, Military, Unemployment, General Motors, Health, Oil, Financial Crisis, Green Economy, Teachers, Iraq, Unions, Michigan, Health Care, Auto Industry, Personal Finance, Politics News

President Obama is seeking massive changes in the way the US is operating when it comes to energy, transportation, agriculture and labor, among others...

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Grassroots Labor Pressure on Specter: "He Knows When There's a Fire Under His Ass"

Art Levine | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Afl-Cio, Joe Sestak, Chamber of Commerce, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Alren Specter Supporting EFCA, Arlen Specter Efca, Politics News

Unflagging grassroots lobbying pressure on the newly-converted Democratic Senator Arlen Specter has led him to promise union activists he'd support a compromise version of the EFCA.

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SAG -- Just Say No? [UPDATED]

Richard Schiff | Posted 07.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sag, SAG Strike, Sag Union, Unions, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Entertainment News

There isn't a producer in Hollywood who can look you in the eye and keep a straight face while telling you this contract is fair and right.

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An Open Letter to the Labor Movement Regarding UNITE HERE Conflict

Bruce Raynor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unite Here, Unite, Labor, Labor Unions, Seiu, Unions, Andy Stern, Workers United, Here, Politics News

Let's end this now. Let's get back to fighting for economic and social justice to improve the lives of union members and working families.

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

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

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.

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NYT's Sorkin Forced To Admit Successful Unionized Companies Exist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: General Electric, Joe Scarborough, Video, Employee Free Choice Act, Jack Welch, Jon Stewart, Morning Joe, Andrew Ross Sorkin, The Daily Show, Unions, Media News

On yesterday's Morning Joe, the New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin started a wee bit of a kerfuffle when he followed up a Jim Cramer "card-check-will-...

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