Right-wing “blizzard narrative” is anti-worker snow job
As a massive winter storm pounds much of the country, the tea party/Republicans are pushing a disastrous narrative: strangle vital public services, like snowplowing, then blame public workers and their unions.
We still remember you, Frank Little
This little 118-page booklet is the first time anybody has even tried to bring the facts of Frank Little's life and murder together.
"Made in Dagenham": feisty women who know how to fight
The best scene in the new British film, "Made in Dagenham," comes when a reporter asks Mrs O'Grady how her band of strikers will be able to cope. "We're women!" she explains pointedly.
Job loss not so bad?
Most people would assume that losing your job would have grave psychological effects, but a recent study claims otherwise - what's up with that?
Government wage freeze — a bad idea
Obama announced his proposal for a two year wage freeze for all non-military government workers. The proposal is a terrible idea. It's bad for the economy and feeds into racist, anti-worker stereotypes of the "lazy" public worker.
Better read than dead: the Communist Manifesto and southwest Ohio
How could the Communist Manifesto, a 160-year-old book, have any relevance in explaining southwest Ohio labor's recent electoral defeat?
Crumbling bridges, rotting pipes and a jobless economy
A public works program would create thousands of jobs and repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
What we can learn from the elections
The "tea party movement" is neither "populist," or new; nor was it as I see it, a major factor inthe GOP victory. So what was?
Constitutional amendment for right to work needed
Given the worst losses for the Democrats in Congress in the last 50 years, some serious rethinking seems called for.
In wake of election, labor must move on four tracks
WASHINGTON (PAI) - In the wake of massive losses of union-friendly lawmakers on Election Night 2010, the labor movement must re-group and re-think its strategy for accomplishing its goals, by moving on four tracks: organizing, mobilizing, legislation and working through regulatory agencies. And don't forget the states.
