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New Goldman Sachs, Buffett PR Gambit: Give $500 Million To Small Businesses

By Art Levine John D. Rockefeller gave out dimes to little kids to burnish his image, helping launch… more

SEIU Leads Protest Against Goldman’s So-Called ‘God’s Work’

By Art Levine SEIU President Andy Stern is joining hundreds of progressives—maybe more—in a newly organized protest outside… more

Unions, Progressives Spurring Reversal On ‘Cadillac Plan’ Tax

When it comes to healthcare reform, Washington's conventional wisom is, as always, wrong again. Just about a week… more

Big Unions Hail Healthcare Bill Passage, as Senate Challenge Begins

Union leaders joined President Obama in hailing the historic, if narrow, passage of major health reform legislation in… more

Will Obama Fight for Real Change? House Health Vote Slowed as GOP Joins Fringers

Yesterday's rally of rabid "Tea Baggers" denounced health care reform with venomous attacks on President Obama, complete with… more

Geithner’s New ‘Reform’ Plan: Keep Backing Risky Investments

By Art Levine Is Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner the new champion of real financial reform, fighting to rein… more

Healthcare’s Next Big Fight: Tax the Rich or Slam Workers?

By Art Levine The unveiling this week of new health reform bills by House and Senate leaders has… more

After Chicago: Forcing a Real Response to Foreclosure Crisis

The protesters who gathered today outside the bankers conference in Chicago demanding a crackdown on taxpayer-salvaged financial institutions… more

Fuel for Real Reform? Populist Anger Drives Big Bank Protests

By Art Levine One of the main messages of Monday and Tuesday's protest marches in Chicago will be… more

Unions, House Dems vs. Rahm Emanuel, Policy Wonks on So-Called “Cadillac Plans”

By Art Levine Unions are leading the charge against the 40% excise tax on insurers that offer so-called… more

NLRB Still Broken: After Nearly 20-Year Battle, Workers Die Before Settlement Reached

Even under President Obama, the National Labor Relations Board is still broken in responding to anti-union abuses. A… more

In Dubious Battle: Chamber Attacks Employer Coercion Studies

Last week, the Chamber of Commerce jumped into the fray again over the Employee Free Choice Act by… more

Financial Reform Round 1: Obama, Progressives vs. Wall St., Centrist Dems

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After Grayson’s Attack: In Search of…A GOP Health Plan

Republicans reacted wtih outrage last week after Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fl.) offered a blistering attack on the nearly-invisible… more

A Democratic Civil War? Grassroots Groups, Blogs Fight to Keep Public Option Alive

With the Senate Finance Committee’s defeat Tuesday of the public option amendments, there’s now the looming potential threat… more

Jobs with Justice, Nomi Prins Put Wall Street on Trial

By Art Levine While big banks and Wall Street investment firms (now usually one and the same) are… more

Unions, Progressives To Launch Wall St. Reform Drives This Week

Unions and progressive coalitions are seeking to add grass-roots organizing power to President Obama's ,… more

Baucus, Under Fire From Fellow Dems and Unions, Signals Minor Compromises

After failing to placate any Republicans with his "Gang of Six"-crafted bipartisan legislation that omits a public option… more

‘Tea Party’ Protests vs. AFL-CIO Convention: Competing Visions for America

This weekend, tens of thousands angry "Tea Party" protesters (not two million, the figure right-wing bloviators have concocted)… more

As Obama Speech Fires Up Base, Insurance CEOs Emerge As New ‘Villains’

President Obama's well-received health reform speech not only boosted public support for reform, but helped fire up much… more

Obama Heads to Labor Day Rally as Union Pressure on Public Option Mounts

As President Obama goes to a Cincinnatti Labor Day rally today expected to draw thousands, the labor movement,… more

Unions Look to Labor Day to Fight ‘Gloves-Off’ Economy

Labor Day this year comes at a turning point for the progressive movement, with redoubled efforts to push… more

Listen to the Nurses: Up to 40% of Hospitals Not Ready for Swine Flu

When health facilities ignore the quality-of-care concerns of nurses, whether involving nurse-patient staffing ratios or practices,… more

Unions, AARP, Sebelius Fighting Scare Tactics Targeting Elderly and Medicare

After all the fabricated claims about "death panels," the GOP and RNC Chairman Michael Steele are now masquerading… more

Public Option Model: Labor Leaders, Bush Economist Cite San Fran Experiment

While the debate continues to rage over the public option and how much President Obama's administration is committed… more

What Will Progressives, Unions Do if ‘Public Option’ is Dropped?

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Dems, Unions, Allies Pushing Back For Reform in Ads, Town Halls, Attacks on Blue Dogs

While the “astro-turf” generated anger targeting health reform continued to grab headlines, Democrats and progressives are pushing back… more

GOP Tacitly Accepts Mob Violence While Progressives Step Up Reform Drive

With corporate violence… more

Are Progressives the New ‘Silent Majority’ in Healthcare Debate?

While corporate-organized GOP mobs dominate mainstream news coverage with bully-boy tactics at Congressional Town Halls, the … more

How the Mainstream Media Fuels Right-Wing Lies On Healthcare Reform

The fate of healthcare reform could be determined by progressive and labor groups’ ability to fight right-wing lies… more

The (Political) Guns of August: Make-or-Break for Progressives on Healthcare

The fight over healthcare this August will prove to be critical to the future of both healthcare reform… more

Scandal-linked “The Family” Says: Jesus Wants You to Bust Unions

Controversy continues to swirl around The Family, the secretive Christian group linked to sex scandals… more

How Labor, Grassroots Activists Say They Will Help Save Health Care Reform

With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s announcement Thursday that a vote on health care reform will be delayed… more

Big Business Lobbies to Save Tax Breaks Spurring Plant Closings

Even as the union representing Stella D’Oro factory workers in New York City is fighting the private equity… more

Wake-Up Call for GOP’s “Values” Hypocrites: Unions Are Pro-Family, Report Finds

While the latest escapades of such GOP “family values” as Sen. John Ensign and Gov. Mark Sanford continue… more

In Arkansas Heat, 1,500 March for Free Choice Act and Senate Action

This weekend, Arkansas became Ground Zero in the fight over the Employee Free Choice Act, with national labor… more

Shilling on the Corporate Dollar

Business-sponsored ‘scholars’ deliver anti-union talking points. more

vol. 33, iss. 06   

The EFCA Battle is Joined

Unions and allies are fighting the anti-Employee Free Choice Act “Meltdown Lobby” with an IRS complaint and grassroots campaigns. more

web only    corporations, economy, labor

Unionbusting Confidential

To keep out organized labor, you need the union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis more

vol. 31, iss. 10    labor

The Bush Administration’s New Target: Uninsured Kids

Fighting against SCHIP is Bush's first salvo in the battle for major health care reform more

web only    medical & health