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Workers Hustled In Pension Game

The average worker’s compensation package was better in the 1970s than it is now. Most public employees in the early 1970s had pensions and Social Security. Workers in the private sector had pensions, Social Security and best of all, profit sharing. People took their pensions for granted.

Republican Leaders Now Touting Jobs Over Deficit Reduction

After months of insisting that the American public is acutely concerned with prioritizing deficit reduction, Republican lawmakers now seem to be operating off of a different polling playbook: pitching the need to create jobs even if the deficit grows.

Ports Trade Tricks For Greener Jobs

"Sweatshops on wheels."

That’s the phrase that stung House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee members at a recent hearing exposing the abusive working conditions of tens of thousands of skilled U.S. port drivers at the nexus of an economic and environmental crisis.

Scary Statistics On America's Shrinking Middle Class

It’s one thing to grasp that the rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer, but to see statistics bearing this out is jarring.

Business Insider recently published “22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America.” Some of the figures they put together to prove this claim are staggering and should give pause to every working American.

Congratulations, Your Misery Is Fueling The Economy! Desperate Low Wage Workers Driving Productivity

The 6.8 million Americans out of work for 27 weeks or longer -- a record 46 percent of all the unemployed -- are providing U.S. companies with an eager, skilled and cheap labor pool. This is allowing businesses to retool their workforces, boosting efficiency and profits following the deepest recession since the 1930s, and contributing to a 61 percent rise in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since March 2009.

Where’s The Free Market?

The right showed once again that they have no allegiance whatsoever to the free market when House Republicans pushed through a bill that would prohibit the Federal Housing Authority from insuring the mortgage of anyone who had "strategically defaulted" on an earlier mortgage.

FedEx Drivers Aren't Pilots

The Teamsters are launching a campaign to remind the American public that people who drive trucks are not airline pilots.

Tea Party Financiers Owe Their Fortune to Josef Stalin

The Tea Party movement’s dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin’s godless empire of the USSR. The secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.

Wrecking Healthy Companies, Killing Good Jobs Are Lousy Reasons To Get A Tax Break

Most Americans are profoundly disgusted by Wall Street, but few question the need for a healthy financial sector to promote economic growth. Businesses need credit to prosper, and prosperity is a fundamental goal of our society. That's why our government affords special protections, and guarantees and loans to the financial services industry.

Missing Lesson From the Mine Tragedy: Union-Busting = Death

In the wake of last week's disaster at Massey Energy Company's Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, it's become increasingly clear that CEO Don Blankenship has gamed the loophole-laden mine safety enforcement system.

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