Showing posts with label labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor. Show all posts
Feb 25, 2015

WKOW-TV in Madison Offers GOP Line on Small-d Democracy

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Worker from Fitchburg, Wisconsin - Image from Citizen Action of Wisconsin One hopes Wisconsin citizens film and record every action of ...

Wisconsin Says 'No' to Anti-worker Law; GOP Says 'Yes'

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Scott Walker and Republicans are following the out-of-state rightwing moneyed interests, ignoring Wisconsin . Worker from Fitchburg, Wis...
Feb 24, 2015

Fitchburg Mayor Blasts GOP Anti-worker Legislation, SB 44

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Fitchburg Mayor Shawn Pfaff joined a united front of progressives and other working-family groups to oppose the GOP's free-rider legi...
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Oct 12, 2011

Mitt Romney Slams Saving Auto Industry Jobs

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Growing Manufacturing with the Auto Industry Turnaround - A good thing By Phil Scarr It nearly slipped by, but Mitt Romney [GOP frontrun...
Sep 14, 2011

Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on Signing the Social Security Act

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Paul Ryan, Rick Perry and the GOP possess a shameful incapacity to appreciate that seniors see Social Security as benefits accrued over a l...
Sep 5, 2011

This Labor Day, As Unions Face Historic Attacks, It's Time to Stand Together

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Paul Robeson with shipyard workers in Oakland, 1942 Photo Credit: NARA via pingnews Americans' labor product, hard work, made this c...
Jul 27, 2011

Value of Work-Labor-Sweat—Wisconsin Recall Elections

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 Madison, Wisconsin State Capitol; February 26, 2011 President Lincoln on Labor Common ground. There is honor and dignity in labor. ...
Jun 16, 2011

Robert Reich: Why the Republican War on Workers’ Rights Undermines the American Economy

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Workers’ share of national income Update : See also Workers’ share of national income plummets to record low . By Robert Reich The ba...
Feb 28, 2011

Koch Bros and Walker: Open War on Workers

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Koch Industries, the private company of the billionaire Koch brothers Charles and David , is an oil and gas, chemicals, cattle, forestry, an...
Feb 26, 2011

There's something happening here ...

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Millwright among crowd on the square Madison, Wisconsin — The rally to protect working Wisconsin families surged to an estimated 100,000 ...
Feb 25, 2011

Massive Madison Rally Saturday for Working Families

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- Live video coverage of rally - Update : The Walker-Koch tapes (audio and text), and Citizen's Criminal Complaint Against Gov. Scot...
Feb 23, 2011

United with the Teamsters and All Labor

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Gov. Scott Walker and his billionaire friends will lose, period.  Teamsters and I 
Feb 17, 2011

Politicalization of Wisconsin Families Will Hurt GOP

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The fight to strip public unions of the right to bargain is obviously far from over. One result is certain. The depoliticalization that al...
Aug 24, 2009

Keeping Merc

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Mercury Marine (a division of Brunswick Corp.) wants to ditch Fond du Lac and the Fox Valley. Merc says it needs to scrap its contract with ...
Aug 23, 2009

Union Says 'No', Mercury Marine Is Typical Anti-American Corp

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Update II : FDL Reporter : "Mercury union workers have voted down a contract proposal that company officials say would have kept Mercur...
Mar 17, 2009

Employee Free Choice Act Now

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What’s the worth of an American’s work? If you believe that America ought to resemble feudalistic serfdom—not very much. But since the later...
Jan 28, 2009

Ditch the Filibuster by Spring

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Robert L. Borosage, Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future, surveying the fights to come writes of the Employee Free Choice Act t...
Jul 10, 2008

AFL-CIO to Hit McCain in Wisconsin, Swing States

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John McCain's hostile voting record against veterans will be the topic of a major media buy by the AFL-CIO . The ad blasts McCain for hi...
Jun 3, 2008

In Light of the GM Closings

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Update : McCain-Bush Big Oil Giveaway Cost 2,600 Janesville Jobs G.M. Closing 4 Plants in Shift From Trucks Toward Cars reads the NYT head...