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Fear and Looting in America: Geithner Caves to Wall Street

Les Leopold | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, CEO Pay, Bail Out, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Wages, Great Depression, Geithner, Business News
Les Leopold

We need a President's Wage Cap because the Obama administration does not want to put the screws to Wall Street's lavish compensation packages.

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Obama and the Incredible Shrinking Financial Sector

Les Leopold | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, CEO Pay, Wages, Economy, Barack Obama, Business News
Les Leopold

Obama's goal is on the money -- bring finance back into balance as the junior partner to the real economy rather than a bloated and tyrannical lord.

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Peaceful Revolution: Close the Wage Gap

Dionna Humphrey | Posted 05.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Women's Rights, Wage Gap, Wage Disparity, Feminism, Wages, Business News
Dionna Humphrey

The Equal Pay Act is more than 40 years old, and it needs updating.

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A Fairness Issue

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, CEO Pay, Bob Casey, Dignity, Wages, Employee Free Choice Act, Workers, Wage, USCCB, Compromise, Employee, Business, St Augustine, Economic, Human Dignity, Organizing, Employer Relations, Common Good, Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Ceos, Justice, Union, Pope John Paul II, Catholic Bishops, Catholic, Economy, Politics News
Jim Wallis

"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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The Secret -- I Saw, Close-up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Charlie Crist, Florida, Slavery, Farmworkers, Wages, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Food, Tomatoes, Economy, Working-Conditions, Politics News
Frances Moore Lappe

Why do I call this modern-day form of slavery and its legal face -- this kind of gross injustice -- the secret of today's imploding economies?

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Memo To Business: Only Unions Will Save Your Bottom Line

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Efca, Henry Ford, Unions, Working Life, Profit, Debt, Wages, Business, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Henry Ford used to say that he wanted his workers to have enough money to buy his cars. For their own self-interest, business, and their Republican allies in Congress, should embrace broad unionization.

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Acco Brands Imposes 47% Pay Cut On Workers

Chicago Tribune | Mary Ellen Podmolik | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Acco Brands Corp., Acco Wage Cuts, Acco Brands Pay Cut, Wages, Economy, Chicago News

Office products company Acco Brands Corp., plans dramatic wage cuts for most of its 2,000 U.S.-based employees next month in a bid to improve its firs...

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Blaming the Victims: Heroic American Consumers

Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, Foreclosure Crisis, Unemployment, Credit, Borrowing Money, Food Stamps, Wages, Easy Money, Great Depression 2.0, Consumption, Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Business News
Ann Pettifor

High levels of debt and consumption were not the result of millions of individual decisions by consumers. They were the result of a deliberate economic 'regime change' in the 1970s.

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Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Not Enough

Martha Burk | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Mexico, Lilly Ledbetter, Wages, Sexism, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Ledbetter v Goodyear, Goodyear, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Politics News
Martha Burk

Congress did the right thing by bringing us back to a 40 year old standard when it fixed Ledbetter. But the State of New Mexico is way ahead of the curve, looking forward, not backward.

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How Congress Can Act Now for Economic Recovery -- And Simple Justice

Page Gardner | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Paycheck Fairness Act, Wages, Economy, Fair Pay, Equal Pay, Politics News
Page Gardner

If concerned citizens call on Congress to take action now, the House and Senate are poised to pass two pieces of legislation that empower working women to challenge pay discrimination.

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Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Financial Crisis, Debt, Minimum Wage, Wages, Unions, Working Life, Working Class, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

If the lines had continued to track closely together as they did prior to the 1970s, the minimum wage would be more than $19 an hour.

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The Nasty Class and Anti-Union Bias of Auto Bailout Opposition, or the Wall Street-Detroit Double Standard

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Blue Collar, Auto Bailout, Uaw, Class Warfare, Wall Street Crisis, Wages, Pensions, Compensation, Executive Compensation, Health Care, Business News
Robert Weissman

Nancy Pelosi says the Congressional Republicans are playing Russian Roulette with the economy by refusing to agree to an auto industry bailout. But f...

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Economic Recovery: Fairness for Low-Income Families

Judy Patrick and Surina Khan | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Recovery, Minimum Wage, Low Wages, Workers, Wages, Fair Play Act, Politics News
Judy Patrick and Surina Khan

Already disadvantaged by years of workplace and legislative failures, women and their families face an increasingly insecure future if policies are not adjusted to meet our ever more pressing needs.

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Protectionism Means Protecting Ourselves

Dave Johnson | Posted 12.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Protectionism, Trade, International Trade, Fair Trade, Tariffs, Fair Wages, Wages, Business News
Dave Johnson

Some people make a lot of money for themselves by undermining our wage, safety and pollution standards. So they tell us that protecting ourselves is wrong.

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John Edwards for Labor Secretary

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, John Edwards, Wages, Class Warfare, Unions, Poverty, Obama Labor Secretary, Trade, Obama's Cabinet, Eric Holder, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

Since Edwards left the race, how many times have we heard the word "poverty" uttered, much less had a national debate about poverty?

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Big Media: Screw the Auto Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Economy, Working Life, Wages, Economic Crisis, Cars, Ford, Automakers, Labor, Bailout, General Motors, Alan Reuther, Ron Gettelfinger, Detroit, Unions, Auto Industry, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Memo to the media: you want to see the auto industry go down? Fine. But, at least try to give the facts about the cuts, concessions and job losses that workers have taken on in a bid to save their livelihoods.

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It's Bozo The Clown's Fault, Not The "Free Market"

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Wages, Class Warfare, American Dream, Pensions, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Bozo the Clown, Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

The current president's pronouncements that the "free market" isn't at fault for the financial meltdown led me to dig deep, investigate and discover the real culprit: Bozo The Clown.

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Workers: The Backbone and the Brains of Today's Economy!

Thomas Kochan | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jobs, Labor Policy, Economic Policy, The Modern Workforce, Economy, Wages, Workers, Politics News
Thomas Kochan

One unanticipated fall out of the financial crisis is that now, lo and behold, Senator McCain has proclaimed "workers are the backbone of the economy...

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The Fundamentals of the Economy are Not Strong

Jeff Madrick | Posted 10.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Fundamentals, Debt, Cheerleading, Mccain, Inequality, Wages, Bush, Economy, Business News
Jeff Madrick

Of course, Americans workers are energetic and skilled. But this does not mean the fundamentals are nearly in place for rapid economic growth in the new global environment.

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Employee Free Choice Act Could Be Biggest Reform Since New Deal

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Labor, Labor Day, Employee Free Choice Act, Union Organizing, Wages, Organized Labor, Unions, Labor Unions, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Productivity, Business News
Mark Weisbrot

One of the most important problems that our economy has faced for the last 30 years has been stagnating real wages.

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The Department of Labor: A Damage Assessment

Rep. George Miller | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Elaine Chao, Workers, Labor Day, Wages, Mining, Labor Department, Katrina, President Bush, Worker Safety, Politics News
Rep. George Miller

Our nation's workers, battered by unfair global competition, stagnant wages, declining benefits, and poor employer compliance with labor laws, deserve a Department of Labor that lives up to its name.

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It's All About Jobs and Wages: How Obama Can Get "All Boats Rising"

Thomas Kochan | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Jobs, Economy, Wages, Shared Prosperity, Politics News
Thomas Kochan

The biggest breakthrough for workers is that, in Obama, they would have a president who sees unions as the key to providing the bargaining power they need to secure a decent middle class living.

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The Meaning of Increasing the Minimum Wage

Bruce Raynor | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Minimum Wage, Labor, Employee Free Choice Act, Work, Economy, Wages, Econonomic, Jobs, Organized Labor, Labor Unions, Recession, Politics News
Bruce Raynor

The bubbles have burst. Our economy is sinking. Americans are looking for a new approach. The increase in the minimum wage points the way forward.

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Wal-Mart's Wages Increase in China, Rollback in US

David Nassar | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Walton, Wages, Economy, Schip, Medicaid, China, Wal-Mart, Labor, Minimum Wage, Walmart Equality, Etic, Business News
David Nassar

Instead of perpetuating a cycle of poverty among its workers, it's time Wal-Mart consider a meaningful wage increase for its U.S. employees who are struggling to make ends.

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Squeezed Dry

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Politics News, Inflation, Economy, Wages, Middle Class, Oil Prices, Oil Profits, Fashion, Recession, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

The long term massive substitution of technology-driven innovation, fueled with cheap wages and energy, may be at increasing risk. Rising energy costs are hard to substitute around.

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