Keystone Pipeline vote fails in Senate by one vote, Mary Landrieu snubbed
Senate Democrats stopped the Keystone XL pipeline legislation by just one vote, ending the latest battle between House Republicans and the White House. Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, who is facing More...
Airplane cabin cleaning crews use Ebola scare as reason to strike, seeking union
Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a strike, citing, in part, possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Around 200 Air Serv employees who work on domestic flights to More...
Pennsylvania Gov Tom Corbett left out of Labor Day parade, set to lose in November
The city of Pittsburgh hosted its annual Labor Day parade today, but this year the state’s most high profile political figure has been left off the guest list. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett was not even More...
Former ACORN head Bertha Lewis leads anti-Walmart rally, they gave money to charities
Walmart has really done it, they gave money to charities. According to former ACORN leader Bertha Lewis, who has now founded The Black Institute, the donations are nothing but a bribe to get stores in New York City. Stock More...
Ahead of ‘Cesar Chavez’ film, former border patrol agent discusses meeting the labor organizer
With Release of New ‘Cesar Chavez’ Film, Former Border Patrol Agent Recalls His First Meeting with Famed Labor Organizer Keeping an eye out for harvest crews on a late-summer morning in 1965, my partner, Bill More...
President Obama suggests GOP would ‘get fired’ for shutdown, making comparisons to worker strikes
Described as a gaffe by conservative critics, President Obama spoke to a Maryland crowd Thursday about the shutdown, comparing the GOP to workers refusing to show up for work until their demands were met. donkeyhotey More...
Unions working to escape the costly penalties of Obamacare
The ill effects of Obamacare, both intentional and those unintentional are being felt, even by the very supporters of the health care reform law – the labor unions. According to a recent report from the Wall More...
Robert Reich calls for massive Wal-Mart, McDonalds and hospital labor unions
Robert Reich, the former Clinton labor secretary turned MSNBC contributor, targeted some of America’s largest companies calling for a massive union of their forces and argues that these companies should embrace More...
Care for Cargo, Air Canada Strike by Rants and Raves
The Air Canada strike was called June 14, mere minutes before the federal government introduced legislation to force the strikers back to work. It appears that this is a very important issue to the government, as More...
The ‘Dreams’ of Obama’s Father: Socialism and 100 percent taxation
I had long put off the research and reading of the long last article that Barack Obama Sr. penned back in the 1960’s. The article was published in the ‘East Africa Journal’ in 1965, the year after More...
Andy Stern Quotes
The most frequent visitor to President Obama at the White House, working on a “global organization”, “workers of the world unite”, persuasion….power There are opportunities in America More...