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“Workers Are At The Mercy Of Markets”: The Great Recession Shifted Bargaining...
The questions hanging over Labor Day 2014 are whether and when the United States gets a pay raise. Ever since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the job market has been in a state of heartbreaking...
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“The Most Terrifying Of All”: Is It Time to Be Afraid of Scott Walker?
One of the silver linings Democrats were looking for on Tuesday was the possibility that some particularly nasty Republican governors might be shown the door. The most repellent had to be Maine’s...
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“Contempt For The People”: The Real Problem With What Scott Walker Said About...
Scott Walker is learning that when you want to play in the big leagues, things move pretty fast. And when you’re a governor without foreign policy experience, sometimes you can get a little tripped up...
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“Remember At The Polls”: No One In Wisconsin Asked To Kill Unions Except...
It was the question no Republican in Wisconsin could answer. “What beating hearts are asking you to pass right to work legislation?” Senator Janet Bewley, a Democrat, put the simple query to the other...
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“Separating Fact From Advocacy”: How The Media Enable The Anti-Worker Movement
NPR Morning Edition aired a report this week that reeked of anti-union bias, and inadvertently promoted the Koch brothers’ agenda to reduce collective bargaining rights, which means smaller wages and...
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“The Right Question To Ask About Government”: What Steps Does Government Take...
Many conservatives and most libertarians argue that every new law or regulation means that government is adding to the sum total of oppression and reducing the freedom of individuals. This way of...
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“Scott Walker’s Race To The Bottom”: His Plan Is As Pure An Expression Of...
Scott Walker wants to take his fight against organized labor national. Today he released a plan for a new war not just on union representation, but on worker rights in general. It’s quite a document,...
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“This Is No Small Development”: Supreme Court Split Saves Public-Sector Unions
Republicans have made no secret of the fact that they fear the Supreme Court moving to the left, even a little, in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death. But we were reminded this morning that in the late...
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