Obama’s Labor Pick Is Good News for Workers

Senior Editor David Moberg looks at this week's labor news, including Obama's labor secretary pick, Detroit's holiday package, and the recent death of labor leader Ron Carey.

By David Moberg

After Obama picked many centrist, conventional Democrats--and even Republicans--to his Cabinet, his choice for labor secretary is refreshing. Hilda Solis is a progressive with a will to fight and to work with grassroots labor, environmental and immigrant worker movements. Labor leaders across the board applauded [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

  • Reader Comments

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    One ides I had is simply to sell GM and Chrysler to the workers, let them become emplyee-owned cooperatives.  They could hardly do worse than the management that has run the auto industry into the ground over the last 30 years.  This current recession could be an opportunity to expand the whole cooperative sector of the economy, if it had proper government support, such as a revived National Cooperative Bank,.

    Bosnia and Herzegovina Posted by mcmchugh99 on Dec 22, 2008 at 2:51 AM

    As always, David - excellent report and a fitting tribute to Ron Carey as well.

    Ken Brociner

    United States Posted by kenbrociner on Dec 23, 2008 at 10:04 PM

    Wasn’t Ron Carey found not guilty on all charges?  Regardless, Hoffa is an idiot and has tried to take the Teamsters as far as Carey did.  Carey was a true unionist.  Hoffa is a wanna be thug.

    United States Posted by maral on Dec 30, 2008 at 2:10 PM

    There are many problems that the Toyota company is facing right now.There are lots of issues revolving around the famous Toyota.How do they deal with it? As the ongoing investigation of Toyota by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration of suddenly accelerating automobiles continues, a new piece of info has come to light. Takeshi Uchiyamada, executive vice president of research and development, was the one who gave this info to us. Uchiyama stated that now a bug was found within the software of the crash data boxes in Toyota Motors cars that shows the wrong rate of speed, says Automotive News

    Philippines Posted by Chelle Polton on Sep 20, 2010 at 9:38 PM
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