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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?
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Labor Backs Bernie Sanders For President During Event In New Hampshire
At an event in Concord, NH today, local and statewide labor leaders endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.
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Scott Walker Says Poverty Pay Is A Living Wage
It is likely that Walker’s idea that poverty wages are living wages came directly from the Kochs, who see American workers as peasants
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Wisconsin Eliminating Weekends Is Another Koch Idea For A Nation of Slave Labor
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.
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Can Government Pick Up Where Unions Left Off?
With union power waning, governments are implementing workers’ rights. It’s time to build a national movement built on grassroots efforts.
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A Look Inside A State Democratic Convention A.K.A. Vote for Colbert Busch Tomorrow
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.
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch Shows What A Democrat Has To Do to Win in the South
Elizabeth Colbert Busch had to try to appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents in her Monday night debate with Mark Sanford.
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What You Need To Know For the Elizabeth Colbert Busch/ Mark Sanford Debate
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.
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Republicans Have Created a World Where Going to Work Can Get You Killed
The consequences of Republican deregulation and their weakening of OSHA has been an ongoing threat of death for American workers.
An Old Foe Is Returning in 2014, and He Could Defeat Nikki Haley
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
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Jobs Report Proves Obama Correct About The Sequester Killing Jobs
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.
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Possible Low-Skilled Immigrant Worker Program Awaits Senate Agreement
A prominent Senator, the AFL-CIO and the Chamber of Commerce have sent the Senate an agreement on an low-skilled immigrant worker visa.
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Customers Abandon Wal-Mart As Their Treatment of Labor Wreaks Havoc on Sales
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.
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Powerful Democratic Operatives in D.C. Help South Carolina Republicans Retain Control
South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison is a powerful lobbyist for the Podesta Group. He’s about to become the Chairman of the state party.
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America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
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Why America Needs a Left
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
Eric Cantor’s letter spells out the continuing ALEC/Koch right-wing agenda
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.
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The vicious red states are engaging in an attack on the public school system
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
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The Right to Work Shot Heard Around the World Won’t End Well for Conservatives
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.
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‘Shared Sacrifice’: Hostess Used Employee Pensions to Fund Itself
While paying millions to its executives, Hostess took the money that was supposed to go into employees’ pensions and used it for other things.
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The Real Motive of Michigan Republicans’ Right-to-Work Push is ‘Pure Greed’
Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing ‘right to work’ legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic Party.
In South Carolina the stampede is on to replace DeMint
Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate to take over the Presidency of the Heritage Foundation. Another extremist will undoubtedly take his place
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You live in Michigan? Your rights are optional
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.
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You Have the Freedom to be Pepper Sprayed in Rick Snyder’s Michigan
His decision to pepper spraying protesters shows just how much Rick Snyder respects people making choices.
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Starbucks Shows that Healthcare isn’t a Job Killer by Adding 1,500 Cafes
Starbucks, which offers healthcare benefits to its eligible part time employees, is expanding with 1500 more cafes in America in the middle of ObamaCare.
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The Dark Side of Black Friday: Walmart Refuses Customers’ Petition Supporting Workers
I joined 10 other worker sympathizers in protest Walmart’s treatment of their Part-time workforce. Inside the store our petition was refused
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Contrary to Walmart’s Spin, the Black Friday Strike Rages On
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.
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Mitt Romney’s Binders Full of Women is a Trapper Keeper Full of Lies
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.
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Main Street: President Obama’s Plan to Build the Economy from the Middle Out
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.
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Romney Ignores Bainport While Trying to Take Back 47% Comments
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%.
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Mitt Romney Proved in front of 67 Million Americans that He Can’t be Trusted
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.
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Weekend Football Scrimmage in Ohio Leaves Obama Over Romney 1-0
Mitt Romney celebrated the college football season with lies about the economy and job creation and Obama told Ohioans to punt his plan away
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Labor Day: The Republican $400 Million Buy-Out
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!
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Republicans Won’t Stop Their Assault on Unions Until Every State is Right-to-Work
Collective bargaining has been under attack. Now, the upcoming elections are hazardous as the GOP seeks to impose more right-to-work laws
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The Postal Service Attack by Republicans is the Canary in the Coal Mine
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.
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Ever Since Citizens United Unions Have Been Under Siege
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
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Occupy Inspires me to Vote, Voting Inspires me to Occupy
The choice has never been either popular democracy or institutional change–the choice has always been do both or get neither.
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Americans for Prosperity Will Have Scott Walker Suck Koch Live Online
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
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Job Creation: A Means To An End For The GOP
Jobs are nothing but a means to a profitable end for the so called job creators that the GOP answers to.
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Republican’s Latest ‘Outsourcing’ Attack Against Obama Fails And Dies
The Republican Party has crashed and burned as their attempt to use outsourcing jobs against Obama has miserably failed.
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A Grain of Charen Salt When It Comes to Wage Equality
Conservative columnist, Mona Charen recently wrote that the suggestion that women are paid less than men for the same work is fiction. Nope!
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A Critical Mass to Challenge the Corporate Colonization of our Government
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.
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Unions Score a Major Victory as Judge Blocks Michigan Paycheck Law
A federal Judge blocks Michigan’s controversial law prohibiting school districts from collecting union dues via payroll deductions.
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Republicans Twist Capitalism Into a Democracy Killer
America is capitalism run amok. A handful of greedy individuals and corporations currently control all the money and power.
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Chuck Norris Displays Comedic Talents on Scott Walker’s Behalf
Chuck Norris takes to WND to display comedic talents in support of Scott Walker, and badly misrepresenting Ronald Reagan in the process
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Romney Got into the Game to Grow His Own Wealth, Not to Create jobs
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.
Koched Up Scott Walker Invents His Own Reality with Deceptive Jobs Numbers
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.
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Working Under Romney’s Bain ‘Was Like Going to War Everyday’
GST steelworkers and lead negotiator for labor explain that what Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital did was not Capitalism, it was bad management.
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Corporate Outside Cash Flooding in for Governor Scott Walker
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?
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The Dirty Thirty – Occupy May Day Edition
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
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Get Ready For Some Right Wing May Day Hysteria
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
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Scott Walker Gets Ridiculed For Highest Job Losses in the Nation
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.
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If Corporations Were People, Wal-Mart Would Be In Jail
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.
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The GOP Give Women an Ideological ‘Up Yours, Girls!’ On Equal Pay Day
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.
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The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
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Mitt Romney Beds Down With Wisconsin’s Koch Suckers
While campaigning in Wisconsin via phone, Mitt Romney endorsed Governor Scott Walker’s “labor policies” and Representative Paul Ryan’s “budget plan”.
Bye Bye China; Hello Third-World America
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.
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35,000 to 1: Protesters Mobilize To Take Down Scott Walker
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…
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Fighter In Chief President Obama Gives Epic Speech to UAW- Full Video
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…
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Mitt Romney Thinks Earning 19,000 Dollars a Year is Middle Class
Mitt Romney pointed to Staples and The Sports Authority as examples of places where he is going to create “middle class” jobs for Americans.
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The Republican Presidential Field Hits A New Low In Obama Hate
A general review of the debate lies and hateful Obama references of the three remaining viable GOP Presidential candidates.
David Koch Tries To Rehab His Image By Claiming Scott Walker’s Union Busting Is Working
David Koch is busy trying to rehab his tarnished media image so that he can continue the Koch game plan for manipulating American policies.
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Shenzhen Sweatshops: The Ultimate Goal of Corporatism
Chinese sweatshops are horrific, and they could happen here.
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Republican Wrap Up: Maine Gets Their Turn To Pick Who Will Lose To Obama
Another day, another Republican caucus, another chance for conservatives to pick the candidate who will have the honor of losing to Obama.
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The Eight Lies Behind The Republican Push For Right To Work Laws
Here are eight lies being used to prop up ‘right to work’ laws popping up in Republican governed states all over the country.
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House GOP Says Unemployed Republicans Make Good Firewood
House Republicans are trying to place a provision in the payroll tax cut extension that would cut benefits for millions, including unemployed Republicans.
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Beyond the Job Numbers: Who is Working?
These job statistics show who is working based on gender, race, and education.
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Breaking Bad with Twitter to Celebrate Unions on Labor Day
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.
Gun Opponents Target Obama
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.
Beware! Glenn Beck is Armed at the Movies
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!”
White House: We Aren’t Afraid of the NRA
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.
Obama Won’t Reinstate 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.
Group Calls Obama an Anti Gun Bigot
The Washington Times reported yesterday that President Obama is ending a federal program that train
Michael Steele Flip Flops on Assault Weapons
RNC Chairman Michael Steele continues to reinvent his positions to be more in line with the
