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APWU on Postal Service: "A manufactured crisis."
On April 12th postal workers took to the streets to shine a light on an issue that many people didnt know existed. The issue is that there is no issue, and the US Postal Service is outsourcing good...
Main Event: In This Corner, the NLRB!
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted last week to block new NLRB union election rules, defying Pres. Obama's threat to veto such a congressional motion. ...
You Go Gary
Our former Congressman Gary Ackerman, weighed in on Republican's efforts to undermine our President. We have to say Way to go Gary! This is what he wrote in Newsday:They saw who was elected...
Can't get TPP without the TPA
What the hell are we talking about. In a nutshell, the job killing Trans Pacific Partnership is impossible to pass without the grease provided by the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). Some house...
Send good jobs to Malaysia, then sue OSHA?
This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) led a group of progressive senators to fight back against the massive secretive corporate giveaway known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (...
Staples really sucks, firing all their part timers?
So right-wing anti American online rag The Political Insider is blasting our President for calling out Staples Stores on their culture of corporate greed. Staples informed their part-time...
Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Jobs and Wages
"How this Effect Us"Trans-Pacific Partnership means the U.S. will be sending jobs normally available in our country to over seas corporations. There have been 2.7 million jobs lost...
Our Congress is full of monkeys
After a long stint of political paralysis, Congress recently decided to put forth some action, however this action has only left us disgusted. Hitting the papers this past week, we were greeted...
LIBN Column: Trans-Pacific Partnership a shame
They’re calling it NAFTA on steroids.The Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement can change the way America does business for decades to come. The Obama administration crafted this pact...
What's the NLRB?
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) enforces the National Labor Relations Act, the principal law safeguarding your right to organize to improve your working conditions, whether or not you are...