What is the Minimum Wage of Whiteness?
Is there a minimum wage of whiteness? When will those whites, of all classes…cease to feel a benefit of racism and see a benefit in solidarity?
Is there a minimum wage of whiteness? When will those whites, of all classes…cease to feel a benefit of racism and see a benefit in solidarity?
At an event in Concord, NH today, local and statewide labor leaders endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
It is likely that Walker’s idea that poverty wages are living wages came directly from the Kochs, who see American workers as peasants
Democrats expected Walker to eliminate the state’s ‘prevailing wage’ law requiring workers on public projects to be paid the established going rate for their labor. Instead of eliminating prevailing wage laws, Koch-Republicans’ decided to eliminate weekends and impose a ‘voluntary’ 7-day work week.
With union power waning, governments are implementing workers’ rights. It’s time to build a national movement built on grassroots efforts.
There’s a lot of listening, clapping and jumping up and down at a Democratic state convention. Other than that, very little for delegates to except try to mobilize voters for Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
This evening at the Citadel, the two candidates for the SC District 1 Congressional seat, will debate for an hour and fifteen minutes. Here is what you need to know.
The consequences of Republican deregulation and their weakening of OSHA has been an ongoing threat of death for American workers.
In all likelihood the 2014 South Carolina Governor’s race is going to be a replay of the 2010 race, not good news for incumbent Nikki Haley
The best thing about the March jobs numbers is they prove that President Obama was right when he said the sequester would stunt job growth.
A prominent Senator, the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have sent the Senate an agreement on an low-skilled immigrant worker visa.
Wal-Mart’s infamously poor treatment of labor is starting to negatively impact its bottom line as customers abandon the superchain’s unstocked shelves, disorganized stores, and long waits for help.
South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison is a powerful lobbyist for the Podesta Group. He’s about to become the Chairman of the state party.
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
Unions are a part of capitalism; they are one of the self-regulating forces that can serve to keep ‘too-big-to-fail’ at bay. They are a check on absolute power.
While paying millions to its executives, Hostess took the money that was supposed to go into employees’ pensions and used it for other things.
Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing ‘right to work’ legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic Party.
Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate to take over the Presidency of the Heritage Foundation. Another extremist will undoubtedly take his place
If you want to get an idea of what Republican revenge for President Obama’s victory in 2012 looks like, look no further than Michigan.
His decision to pepper spraying protesters shows just how much Rick Snyder respects people making choices.
Starbucks, which offers healthcare benefits to its eligible part time employees, is expanding with 1500 more cafes in America in the middle of ObamaCare.
I joined 10 other worker sympathizers in protest Walmart’s treatment of their Part-time workforce. Inside the store our petition was refused
Walmart is trying to minimize the strikes and claiming they have had the best Black Friday ‘ever’. That may be true, but they are missing the point.
Romney never asked for those binders full of women. So, not only was his comment strikingly offensive in its insensitivity, but it wasn’t even true.
With consumer confidence at a 5 year high, the President’s plans to build the economy from the middle out are working. Here’s the proof.
Mitt Romney refuses to meet with the folks from Bainport to discuss his company shipping their jobs to China, yet he says he didn’t mean what he said about the 47%.
It was generally conceded that Mitt Romney won the first debate. The question is can you trust anything he said? He is not to be trusted.
Mitt Romney celebrated the college football season with lies about the economy and job creation and Obama told Ohioans to punt his plan away
Happy American Labor Day Tea-partiers, Republicans and conservative Americans, today as you celebrate this American day off those un-American lazy bastards forced you to take!
Collective bargaining has been under attack. Now, the upcoming elections are hazardous as the GOP seeks to impose more right-to-work laws
The Republican vicious and unrelenting attacks on the U.S. Postal Service is the canary in the coal mine for our future if Democrats and particularly minorities (10% vote in mid-terms) stay home on November 6th.
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
The choice has never been either popular democracy or institutional change–the choice has always been do both or get neither.
Americans for Prosperity are hauling their boy Scott Walker to D.C. to do some public Koch-sucking and World Net Daily will live-stream it
Jobs are nothing but a means to a profitable end for the so called job creators that the GOP answers to.
The Republican Party has crashed and burned as their attempt to use outsourcing jobs against Obama has miserably failed.
Conservative columnist, Mona Charen recently wrote that the suggestion that women are paid less than men for the same work is fiction. Nope!
A mass majority convinced through years of struggle that a fairer, more humane, more sustainable world is possible is the best way to challenge the corporate colonization of our government.
A federal Judge blocks Michigan’s controversial law prohibiting school districts from collecting union dues via payroll deductions.
America is capitalism run amok. A handful of greedy individuals and corporations currently control all the money and power.
Chuck Norris takes to WND to display comedic talents in support of Scott Walker, and badly misrepresenting Ronald Reagan in the process
Mitt Romney was never a job creator. He engaged in “recapping” companies; loading a company with debt in order to suck it dry of dividends.
Scott Walker’s Wisconsin suffered record job losses as he faces recall, so Walker decided that he didn’t like the measurement used. He wanted to tell a different story.
GST steelworkers and lead negotiator for labor explain that what Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital did was not Capitalism, it was bad management.
Governor Scott Walker is winning the money race in the recall against him. Almost ¾ of it is coming from out of state. Want to know who’s funding the job-killer’s corporatist agenda?
Look at all the things wrong in America right now and then look at the GOP solutions since 2010. You will see they have no intention of fixing any real problems
Tomorrow is May Day and the day of Occupy protests from coast to coast and we are already being warned of the violence to come at the hands of leftist anarchists
Ed Schultz rips apart Scott Walker’s worst job losses in the country record. But the fun doesn’t stop there. He then brings on Governor Pat Quinn (D-IL) for a little job growth schadenfreude.
Wal-Mart’s stock price plunged this morning after allegations of bribing Mexican officials and thereby violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and also covering up their bribes.
Demonstrating just how Republicans honor Equal Pay Day, Scott Walker, whose polices are endorsed by Mitt Romney, actually repealed parts of the Equal Pay Act in Wisconsin just days before the national event.
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
While campaigning in Wisconsin via phone, Mitt Romney endorsed Governor Scott Walker’s “labor policies” and Representative Paul Ryan’s “budget plan”.
Chinese wages have risen marginally and those same corporations are looking to return to the U.S. now that unions have been all but destroyed by the Republicans, driving down wages.
An estimated 35,000 Wisconsinites rallied at the Madison stop for Wisconsin’s AFL-CIO’s “Reclaim Wisconsin Tour,” the immediate focus of which is the recall of Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and four Republican state senators. Saturday was the anniversary of Governor Scott Walker killing collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin. The underhanded…
Allow me to introduce you to your fierce, pissed off fighter-in-chief, President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama took the stage today in Washington speaking to the United Auto Workers to wild cheers of “Four more years!” And let me tell you something…. This was an epic, genuinely passionate speech about Obama’s betting on the American…
Mitt Romney pointed to Staples and The Sports Authority as examples of places where he is going to create “middle class” jobs for Americans.
A general review of the debate lies and hateful Obama references of the three remaining viable GOP Presidential candidates.
David Koch is busy trying to rehab his tarnished media image so that he can continue the Koch game plan for manipulating American policies.
Chinese sweatshops are horrific, and they could happen here.
Another day, another Republican caucus, another chance for conservatives to pick the candidate who will have the honor of losing to Obama.
Here are eight lies being used to prop up ‘right to work’ laws popping up in Republican governed states all over the country.
House Republicans are trying to place a provision in the payroll tax cut extension that would cut benefits for millions, including unemployed Republicans.
These job statistics show who is working based on gender, race, and education.
It’s a Union Tweetfest, peeps. Because nothing says Labor Day like honoring and celebrating this country’s proud heritage of unions. Union workers are the backbone of this country. They span from steel mill workers to Hollywood writers, nurses to auto workers. These are the Real Americans, working hard to provide for their families. The union created the middle class. The Union helped pass pro worker legislation like the Fair Minimum Wage Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Today as President Obama and his family toured Yellowstone National Park, gun control advocates criticized the president for signing a bill that will allow guns to be carried into the national parks. As some on the left fume, it is becoming clear that this president has no interest in taking away anyone’s guns.
On his Fox News Channel program today, Glenn Beck lamented the defeat of an amendment that would have allowed people with concealed carry gun permits to carry their guns across state lines. Beck went into his love of guns and said, “I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn’t kill anybody!”
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod was on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday morning. He said that Obama is not afraid of the NRA, but the White House believes that there are more immediate options available to deal with the violence along the U.S./Mexico border than an assault weapons ban.
When asked today during his daily briefing if President Obama would reinstate the assault weapons ban, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made it clear that Obama was looking at other strategies, such as hiring more police officers, instead of reinstating the ban on assault weapons.
The Washington Times reported yesterday that President Obama is ending a federal program that train
RNC Chairman Michael Steele continues to reinvent his positions to be more in line with the