Working Life

It's Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On (3): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Taxes, Working Life, Catfood Commission, Debt, Blackstone, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Deficit, Peter Peterson, Financial Crisis, Books News

Today, as the Catfood Commission unveiled its final report, I'll look at some of the people behind pushing the phony "crisis" within an excerpt from the next chapter of my book.

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Kiss The Jobs and Wages Goodbye: Hello "Free Trade" Again

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Bi-Partisanship, Sherrod Brown, Working Life, Nancy Pelosi, Free Trade, Wages, Republicans, Corporate Power, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News

Yesterday, I wrote about the disastrous state of labor in the wake of the elections. Suffering from either a lack of sleep or simple brain lock, I ...

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A Lack of Seriousness

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Omg, The Press, Taxes, 2010 Elections, Working Life, Free Market, Iraq, Afghanistan, Deficit Commission, David Stockman, Politics News

I voted early this morning. And now I can reflect on the disaster looming ahead. Not what happens today. But what happens over the next few years, and the next decade.

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Why Isn't Academia Preparing Our Children for Business And Life? Ringing (Out) the IQ Bell

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, IQ and Income, Gop, Academia, Living News, Department of Education, Jobs, Working Life, Iq, Elementary School, SAT Test, Green Living, High School Dropouts, School, IQ and Education, Emory University, Politics, Politics News, Education, Doctoral Degrees, Vanderbilt University, College, Masters Degrees, Grade School, Fox News, High School, Middle School, Republicans, Living, Educational System, IQ Bell Curve, College News

Why can't Academia, from Kindergarten to doctoral programs, retool in the 21st century to educate all of us for who we really are, and not mold our children into products of a diploma mill?

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Once the Butterflies Have Settled

Zaina Arafat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Bank, Working Life, Brooklyn, Dating, New York Subway, Washington DC, Jobs, West Village, Love, Cambridge, New York, New York City, New York News

Passion dies; butterflies flutter away, and they're meant to. Who could live with constant excitement and unease? Sometimes the comfort of routine is necessary for real life to take place.

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I Try To Eat Less: The Story Of The Economy

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Warfare, Poverty, Working Life, The Audacity of Greed, Jobs, Great Depression, u6, Politics News

We will not be in recovery until we have a serious debate about the economic system in the country and how it robs workers of their ability to get a fair wage for a fair day's work.

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11 Benefits of Working for Someone Else

divinecaroline.com | Damsels In Success | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Career, Workplace, Boss, Work, Working Life, Career Path, Career Advice, Jobs, Careers, Job Search, Healthy Living News

Based on my experience in the past decade of earning a living as both an entrepreneur and an employee, I believe that working as an employee can add t...

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The Bigger Shame: The Rich Got Richer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Class Warfare, Wall Street, Taxes, Working Life, The Rich, Politics News

Respectfully, we can rage about the spectacle of bonuses on Wall Street, but the real crime is this: while a fiscal crisis mushrooms, the richest Americans are let off the hook.

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Senator Baucus: "Uniquely American" Is Not an Answer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Max Baucus, Free Market, Health Care, Working Life, Max Bacus, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News

What industry has done more to deny our citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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Victory at Smithfields: An Independence Day Symbol

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Screw The Center

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Krugman, Public Option, Democrats, Health Care, Working Life, Politics News

We are being held hostage to the "center" when the "center" has no real standing among the people.

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The Dallas Principles: The Best Response To Prop 8

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Discrimination, Proposition 8, Working Life, California Supreme Court, Dallas Principles, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

One day, as a society, we will look back at the absurdity of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals as something as abhorrent as racial discrimination.

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Yes, Maria Bartiromo, There Is Class Warfare

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Warfare, Budgets, Unions, Taxes, Working Life, Maria Bartiromo, Financial Crisis, States, Business News

What was most interesting about my debate with CNBC's anchor Maria Bartiromo is how she became speechless -- and that ain't no easy feat -- when I challenged her about class warfare.

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Global Tele-Offices: An Answer to Working Through the Recession

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Office, Global Nomads, Recession, Digital Lifestyle, Mobile, Working Life, UK, London, Telecommuting, Business News

We are part of a growing group of professionals who circle the globe working in an agile manner, using social networks and email as a main means of communication.

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Labor Must Field a Primary Opponent to Blanche Lincoln

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Primaries, Filibuster, Blanche Lincoln, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Democrats, Working Life, Politics News

Enough. Now that she has thrown another obstacle in the path of the Employee Free Choice Act, Blanche Lincoln must face a well-funded primary opponent in 2010.

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7 Worst Habits Of Workaholics

Karen Leland | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Personal Health, Working Life, Health, Economic Crisis, The Balanced Life, Workaholic, Healthy Living News

There's no doubt that times are tough. But if you're tempted to try and show your value by working harder and longer, be sure to include a healthy dos...

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Memo To Business: Only Unions Will Save Your Bottom Line

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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The CEO Pay Caps Are A Mirage

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pensions, Financial Crisis, Treasury Department, CEO Pay, Unions, Working Life, Barack Obama, Business News

If the point is to stop the legal looting of corporate treasuries and leave some money in the till for regular workers, when you get right down to it, the CEO pay caps aren't meaningful.

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A Demand: Banks Getting Our Money Can't Oppose Unions

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banks, Financial Crisis, Unions, Working Life, Barack Obama, Tarp, Neutrality, Politics News

The labor movement should call for a simple requirement: if you take taxpayer money, you may not oppose any attempt to unionize the workplace. You must remain neutral.

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CEOs Boosting Their Pensions While Workers Pensions go Poof

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Class Warfare, Working Life, Pensions, CEO Greed, Greed, American Greed, Money, Economy, Economic Crisis, Ceos, Recession Fears, Jobs, Financial Crisis, Corporate Greed, Recession, Business News

CEOs are getting major boosts in their pensions, while the pensions of most Americans have either disappeared or take a major hit.

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Robert Rubin Gets His Pink Slip: Good Riddance

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Financial Crisis, Class Warfare, Robert Rubin Citibank, Working Life, Robert Rubin, Transition Team, Citigroup, Business News

The downside to letting Rubin slip quietly from his role at Citigroup is that he leaves with enough of his reputation intact that he still holds some sway in Washington.

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President-Elect Obama, Tax The Rich To Keep Deficits Lower

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Class Warfare, Wall Street, Taxes, Working Life, Financial Crisis, Deficits, Transactions Tax, Politics News

When a political leader says the country will have to make some "very difficult choices", as Obama did, history instructs us that it is average people that get nailed. And it doesn't have to be that way.

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Conspiracy of Silence: Wage Collapse Caused Crisis

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Boycott McDonald's: Every Big Mac Eaten Attacks Workers

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boycott, Efca, McDonald's, Human Rights, Unions, Working Life, Labor Rights, Business News

On the eve of the international recognition Human Rights Day, McDonald's announced it will launch a massive campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act So, let's respond in kind: boycott McDonald's.

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Robert Rubin: Coward or Liar -- or Both?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citibank, Robert Rubin, Financial Crisis, Debt, Working Life, Housing Crisis, Dean Baker, Bill Clinton, Economy, Treasury, Economic Crisis, Politics News

It's Judgment Day. Rubin needs to get a pink slip and stand on the unemployment line with the vast sea of people he helped put there.

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