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Pittsburgh G20 Diaries: Day Three - Huge March vs. 'State of Seige'
Photo: PDA's Randy Shannon with banner, center, next Michael McPhearson of Vets for Peace with Rick Kimbrough, right. Pittsburgh G20 Diaries: Day Three10,000 Marchers Beat Back The Steel City's 'State...
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Steelworkers Plan Job Creation via Worker-Owned Factories
Photo: High-tech Machine Tools from MCC‘One Worker, One Vote:'US Steelworkers to Experiment with Factory Ownership, Mondragon StyleBy Carl Davidson SolidarityEconomy.netOct. 27, 2009--The United Steel...
View ArticleIn Trade, Too Often, the Victim is Blamed
Aside from other things, I publish a web site called UnionReview.com. It is a pro-labor online community blog where workers and leaders can send in their news and views of the labor movement. Last...
View ArticleEnd the Denial: Label China a Currency Manipulator
China and America decline to acknowledge what everyone else knows: China suppresses the value of its currency to gain a trade advantage over America. This is costing America untold numbers of...
View ArticleAn Enduring Memorial for Slaughtered Miners: Criminal Liability for Reckless...
Canada went beyond erecting a memorial to commemorate 26 workers killed in a coal dust and methane explosion at the Westray mine 18 years ago. Canada criminalized corporate disregard for worker safety....
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies and Employers
Last week, Massey Energy and its CEO Don Blankenship repeated their contention that although 29 of their workers died in the Upper Big Branch mine explosion earlier this month, they emphasize safety...
View ArticleMore Regulation the Solution, Not the Problem
The need for more regulation and stiffer enforcement was illustrated in April in blood: 29 dead coal miners in West Virginia, seven dead workers at an oil refinery in Washington State, and 11 dead on a...
View ArticleSafety Awards That Endanger Workers’ Lives
BP, Massey Energy and Tessoro are all using their safety award plaques like shields to deflect accusations of recklessness. The disconnect between safety prizes and dead workers has enabled these...
View ArticleGOP Wants a Country by Corporations for Corporations
Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul simply said what Republicans believe – that this country should focus on promoting corporations and those corporations should have privileges but not...
View ArticleGreed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards
CEOs commonly make incongruous assertions to protect profits after corporate-caused disasters. They’re driven by the same factor that is fundamental to the catastrophes – greed. Nothing wrong with...
View ArticleAmerican Wind Turbines Sound Like Freedom
In America, wind turbines echo the almost melodic taunt of a schoolyard victor -- Neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh: You can’t get me. That’s because American wind turbines are the manifestation of freedom from...
View ArticleU.S. Politicians Deny the Obvious Injury; U.S. Manufacturing Bleeds
In the trade clash between China and America, the Asian giant has gravely wounded the United States. China knows it. U.S. voters of all political stripes know it. But too many American politicians are...
View ArticleQ&A with Veteran Labor Organizer Stewart J. Acuff
Stewart Acuff, chief of staff for the Utility Workers Union of America, says in his new book, "Getting America Back to Work," that increasing employment requires reinvesting in America and its...
View ArticleFor the Strength of Rosie the Riveter: Make It in America
Shuttered U.S. factories and off-shored manufacturing are sapping American strength. Late in April, 58 percent of 1,000 likely voters told pollsters they believed America’s economy no longer led the...
View ArticleAssert Yourself, America; Don't be an Illegal Trade Victim
How is it that America finds herself in the position of schoolyard patsy, woe-is-me victim of China’s illegal trade practices that are destroying U.S. renewable energy manufacturing and foreclosing an...
View ArticleThe importance of the Steelworkers' recent steps
The United Steelworkers this week filed a petition with the US Trade Representative "identifying a broad array of Chinese policies and practices that threaten the future of America’s alternative and...
View ArticleRepublicans Don’t Trust Americans
Private Republican campaign fund-raising groups are concealing their donors from the public because the GOP does not trust American voters to handle the information. Republican operatives want to...
View ArticleGE TO Add 500 U.S. Jobs, Bring Them Back From China and Mexico.
Here is some good economic news. It won't by itself change the long term unemployment, but I hope it is a sign of things slowly getting better. Bringing jobs home from other countries, and they're...
View ArticleSteelworkers, China Trade and Green Technology
Jake Blumgart writes on Talking UnionOn September 9th the United Steelworkers (USW) union filed a trade complaint against the Chinese government for violating WTO free-trade rules, by pumping billions...
View ArticlePresident Obama To Meet With Labor Leaders Today
After the CEO mmeting on Wednesday, President Obama will meet with 12 labor leaders and Secreatary of Labor Hilda Solis today.President Barack Obama meets with labor leaders at the White House on...
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