Industry concentration and monopolization have become boring and technical so the exploitation of labor now gets a meme-term from Zephyr Teachout that sounds more like a QAnon conspiracy: chickenization. COVID-19 does have something to do with it considering the acceleration of the pandemic in meat production centers. It involves something more akin to the sub-contracting of information…
Category: Labor
Full of rage and spite, Trump ordered FEMA to withhold funds from California wildfire victims.
Climate change denier Donald Trump has been credibly accused by his former DHS Chief of Staff (Miles Taylor) of ordering FEMA to withhold funds for California climate change victims during the aftermath of devasting wildfires in 2018. The personification of cruelty, Trump reiterated the same threat to the state of forty million people once again…
My Problem With The Senate Democrats Who Voted To Confirm Acosta Secretary of Labor.
Ah the Senate Democrats. Just a couple of weeks ago they hosed us on that border funding bill. They voted so overwhelming for McConnell’s bill that it helped jam the House Democrats. And now Speaker Pelosi is catching grief from progressives, and Pelosi is dishing back to one of the Mean Girls at the NYT. …
Bernie Sanders & DFA Keep Up The Momentum In Support Of The Teachers Strike In Los Angeles
As a resident of Los Angeles, I fully support the Teachers Strike in Los Angeles. So I’m happy that Democracy for America is helping keep up the momentum: It’s a far too common scene in communities across the country: teachers are supporting larger and larger class sizes in understaffed schools; paying for basic supplies like pens, paper,…
Trump escalates the GOP war on government workers
As the New Year begins, imagine that this is how your 2018 ended: You work at a company where the CEO and the management team are notoriously corrupt. They began the year by taking on $150 million in new debt for the purpose of rewarding themselves and their shareholders with a massive stock buyback. But as the…
CREDO Action Pressures The Incoming Congress To Pass The Federal Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights
Received this e-mail today from CREDO Action: They clean houses. Care for seniors. Nurse the sick. Raise children. But the reward for the hard work of our nation's more than 2 million domestic workers is low wages, harassment, unsafe work conditions, discrimination and even abuse.1 Eight states already have laws on the books protecting domestic workers,…
The Last Strike
I’ve worked for labor unions for 40 years and I’m proud of it. But I’ve also witnessed, and suffered, from the employers’ and their conservative political allies’ relentless and successful attacks on workers. Unions have lost ground over the last 40 years. Weaker unions meant we had to bargain contracts with so-called 401ks instead of…
Republicans move to exempt 93.5% of Michigan companies from paid sick leave law.
I’ll keep this short and (not so) sweet. You can read the rest HERE. Most of you know that the group Michigan Time to Care gathered and submitted more than 380,000 signatures to put a solid paid sick leave law on the ballot in Michigan in November. The legislature took up the issue and passed the…
Another attack on Michigan workers: Republicans move to slash minimum wage for under-20 workers
Originally posted at Eclectablog. In their neverending quest to screw over workers to benefit employers, Republicans in Michigan are now turning their attention to those making minimum wage. A bill that would lower the minimum wage by 15% for those under 20 years old was passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee today. The bill's…
All Illinois Democrats have to do for re-election is govern like Democrats
There's a simple lesson for Illinois Democrats from the Tuesday election. If you want to get re-elected as a Democrat in Illinois all you have to do is govern like a liberal Democrat. It's not complicated. Illinois is a Democratic state. A majority of voters are pro-union, pro-environment, pro-choice and progressive. The biggest employer is…
