A Socialist Republic
Barack Obama and George W. Bush seem to have come away from their study of the Great Depression with similar conclusions. After the Crash of 1929, the Federal Reserve did not move fast enough to save...
View Article“Bad Faith” Negotiation
A party is free to negotiate and is not liable for failure to reach an agreement. However, a party who negotiates or breaks off negotiations in bad faith is liable for the losses caused to the other...
View ArticleWhistleblower’s lawsuit
Whistleblower’s lawsuit A whistleblower who helped instigate regulatory and media investigations of Kaiser Permanente’s troubled Northern California kidney-transplant unit has filed a wrongful...
View ArticleThe Employee Free Choice Act
The Employee Free Choice Act It’s only been a month since hundreds of thousands of union members and their families helped Barack Obama win key “battleground states.” Yet, already, some labor...
View ArticleThis parasitic financial regime
Path for a Workers’ Surge? Even though the Federal Reserve is now the biggest single participant in the financial system, the myth of a “free market” still lingers on. It’s mind boggling. The Fed has...
View ArticleExtreme and Reckless
Britain leaves Iraq in Shame Obama was elected on the back of revulsion at Bush’s war, but greater pressure will be needed to force a full withdrawal. If British troops are indeed withdrawn from Iraq...
View ArticleWho Rules SEIU?
And Who Decides the Fate of UHW? “SEIU has evolved into a dictatorship in which Andy Stern and others have consolidated power, decision-making authority, and resources among a few.”–Sal Rosselli,...
View ArticleA Nasty Internal Rift at SEIU
SEIU plans to form new union Service Employees International Union announced plans Friday to unite 240,000 home care and nursing home workers in California in a single local union. Leaders at...
View ArticleBusiness Unionism
Business vs. Revolutionary Unionism “When the working class unites, there will be a lot of jobless labor leaders.” –Eugene Debs, 1905 speech Unions are a modern concept, a product of industrial...
View ArticleWhat does Sal Rosselli stand for?
Here are a couple of selected Rosselli’s videos and his resignation letter from SEIU’s executive committee (written a year ago). See both videos and then read the letter. Last month, Andy Stern finally...
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