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19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America
As you read these 19 items below, think about the attack on labor unions, the shrinking middle-class, continuing the tax cuts for the wealthy — and the information at the bottom. The United States has...
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Obama calls the FAA shutdown “a lose-lose-lose situation,” urges Congress to...
Via Federal Times: President Obama urged Congress today to return from recess to fund the Federal Aviation Administration, saying thousands of jobs are at stake. “This is a lose-lose-lose situation,”...
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August 5, 1981: The day the middle-class died in America
Michael Moore: 30 years ago today the middle-class died | Truthout From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, “When did this all begin, America’s downward slide?” They say they’ve heard of a time...
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What would income inequality look like today if union density had remained at...
From Kevin Drum | Mother Jones: [What would] income inequality look like if union density had remained at its 1973 level. …Among men, if you account only for the effect of individual membership in...
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Five ways Mitt Romney is fighting against unions / the American middle class
“It’s unions … that forged the American middle class—that great engine of prosperity, the greatest that the world has ever known,” President Obama has said. Mitt Romney not only wants to turn his back...
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3/19: Monday morning’s slightly interesting things
1) PRESIDENT OBAMA / DEMOCRATS Obama’s Spending Record: More Conservative Than Reagan’s - This is the kind of reality that makes Sean Hannity’s head explodes. So far, the GOP candidates have been...
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Unions make a difference for everyone
via: silas216 Higher union wages raise non-union wages as well. No wonder the GOP / corporate culture wants to be rid of organized labor. The Economic Policy Institute says: Strong unions set a pay...
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Morning Bunker Report: Sunday 5.27.2012
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—————————–— Romney on homeless veterans: “Let them milk cows.” — By all accounts Mitt Romney’s 1994 trip to the nation’s largest homeless shelter was...
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Romney economics: when a fair wage for American workers is considered ‘greed’
Fox News and Mitt Romney, as representatives for the one percent, rely on the Republican base voters to be not only dumb and uninformed, but self-hating as well. How else do you explain support (by...
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Union workers and everyone’s wages and benefits
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Labor Day: Workers (and the rest of us) Built That
We Built That. I don’t think that means what Republicans think that means. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to...
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Gov. Scott Walker’s signature achievement ruled “null and void”
Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law Struck Down By County Judge A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective...
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Right to work laws give you the “right to work” for less money
Why are Michigan Democrats opposed to right to work laws being contemplated by Gov. Rick Synder? ”Workers are currently not required to join a union — …they simply wanted to preserve the right of...
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Feefees hurt in Michigan: Tea Party advocates protest union supporters, get...
Joe.My.God: “Early this morning Tea Party advocates traded screams with union supporters on the steps of the Michigan Capitol Building. Breitbart has posted the below video.” … WHERE do these...
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Meanwhile in Lansing
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the...
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What’s next for labor in Michigan? Organizing a backlash…
Political Wire reports on what’s next for labor in Michigan: Organized labor and its allies essentially have two options to overturn the state’s new “right-to-work” law signed yesterday by Michigan...
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