Elkhart also suffered the loss of a major drug manufacturing plant when American Homes relocated production to a low-wage,heavily-subsidized plant in Puerto Rico, as I recall, about 15 years back. . The workers' fitting slogan: "American Homes destroys American homes."
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Roger Bybee
Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and progressive publicity consultant whose work has appeared in numerous national publications and websites, including Z magazine, Dollars & Sense, Yes!, The Progressive, Multinational Monitor, The American Prospect and Foreign Policy in Focus. Bybee edited The Racine Labor weekly newspaper for 14 years in his hometown of Racine, Wis., where his grandfathers and father were socialist and labor activists. His website can be found here.
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As Dems Dither on Crisis, Right Appeals to Racism
By Roger Bybee The recovery must be here. After all, what more proof is needed than the fact… more
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Dems Need More ‘Problem Children’ Like Alan Grayson
By Roger Bybee The late Saul Alinsky, the scrappy Chicagoan who translated unionizing methods into a systematic approach… more
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The Pillage People
One year after the Wall Street bailout, real reform of the financial sector is still a dream. more
vol. 33, iss. 11 corporations, economy, obama
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Could Botched Heath Reform Resuscitate the Right?
By Roger Bybee "Why in the hell would we want any healthcare reform with a big explosive device… more
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Corporations: Maybe They’re Just Not That Into Us
"Pay cuts, sometimes the result of downgrades in rank or shortened workweeks, are occurring more frequently than at… more
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Ex-Insurance Exec Sees Big Backlash to Healthcare Bill
By Roger Bybee Wendell Potter knows the health insurance industry from the inside out, having served for years… more
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Excellent story, reminding us how far we have slid both practically and metaphorically back toward "The Jungle." In Milwaukee and other Midwestern cities, we witnessed a wave of union-busting among meatpackers beginning in the mid-1970's, that triggered violent confrontations on the picket lines.. Amid high unemployment during the 1974-75 recession, meatpacking companies were able to recruit scabs on a scale not seen in decades. Within the next few years, the meatpacking industry seemed to increasingly shift to small towns in "right-to-work" states like Iowa and Nebraska where union formation is much easier to fight. I hope you will continue exploring this, …
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Dear David: "Plutonomy" is the perfect term for the new economy, where family-wage jobs, our productive capacity, and entire communities are being laid waste so a few can benefit from diverting capital to the casino economy. When di the Wall Street Journal first use this? I thought that they had become considerable less forthright in recent years about the workings of the economy, but occasionally, they must let the truth slip through.
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