Utility Workers Press President Obama to Reject Workers Tax on Health Care
This piece is cross posted from the Huffington PostPresident Obama is easily the most pro-union President we've had in this country since Harry Truman--or maybe even Franklin Roosevelt. He appointed...
View ArticleDr. King and the Struggle for Economic Justice
This Monday the nation will pause for a minute to celebrate the birthday, life, work, and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.All through this three day weekend we will see ads on tv, read them in...
View ArticleWhat's Good for the Environment is Good for the Economy
Our economy is mired in the worst crisis we've had since the Great Depression. The one seemingly insurmountable barrier to reviving the economy is the lack of consumer demand caused by 30 years of...
View ArticleRestoring the Right to Form Unions and Bargain Collectively
America's broad, deep Middle Class, indeed, the American Dream was formed in the 20-25 years after the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935 which codified the right of workers in America to freely form...
View ArticleRebuilding America's Manufacturing Jobs and Industrial Capability
Any student in any beginning economics class soon learns that the way a nation or a society creates wealth is by making things or building things other people want to buy and are willing to pay for.The...
View ArticleLayoffs Are Bad for Business and the Economy
An article by Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer in the February 15 issue of Newsweek makes a compelling, well-researched case that layoffs and downsizing are bad for the firms that do it as well as...
View ArticleGovernor Bob McDonnell is a Racist
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell just opened up another wound in our country's abysmal racist history with his decision to name April Confederate History Month in Virginia--and to do so without mentioning...
View ArticleCelebrate Earth Day, New Book "Getting America Back to Work" Connects Good...
Next week we expect Climate Change legislation to be introduced in the U.S. Senate. The legislation will move our country to significant investment in green energy generation and conservation creating...
View ArticlePunching Holes in so-called Free Market Economics
This piece co-authored by Stewart Acuff & Bill Fletcher, Jr.We have found ourselves wondering why President Obama is being 'red-baited' by the political Right. Any reasonable person looking at the...
View ArticleBP's Spewing Oil Best Argument for Climate Change Legislation
Michael Williams helped with research for this article.With the oil continuing to spew out of BP's hole in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico and with Israel's assault on those who would provide aid to...
View ArticleCorporate America Offshoring more Jobs in Economic Crisis
Just a week ago I had the honor of being in Mt. Vernon, Indiana for a major protest against the closing of a large Whirlpool factory that had employed 1200 people so they could move the work to...
View ArticleGreen Energy Generation can Help Rebuild Our Economy
The remarks below were presented to the Portland to the Northwest Conference on Transmission and Grid Policy to Facilitate Green Energy GenerationI speak today on behalf of the 50,000 members of the...
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