The $8,812 Missing from Your Wallet
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)Profits for Fortune 500 companies rose 29 percent in 2006 to $785 billion, the highest in half a...
View ArticleThe Question Isn't Why We Went to China - It's Why Wouldn't We?
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)There’s no question as to why the modern labor movement would need to pay attention to China....
View Article(Union) Made in China: The Tag Corporate America Doesn't Want You to See
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)Multinational corporations have been roaming the globe in a race to the bottom, competing solely...
View ArticleRally for the American Dream in DC or Online On Tuesday
One of the cornerstones of the American Dream is the right for working people to join together in unions and work together to better their lives.Unfortunately, corporate interests have spent decades...
View ArticleToday's the Day: Stand Up For the American Dream!
Just wanted to remind everybody that today's the big day: at 2PM Eastern time, working people from across America will be rallying in DC to support the Employee Free Choice Act.If you're in the DC area...
View ArticleThe Private Equity Tax Rip-Off
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)Where could the U.S. government come up with the money to lift up those Americans hurt most by...
View ArticleAsk No Questions And Hear No Lies: CEO Pay in Plain English
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)American Eagle Outfitters paid its CEO a whopping $15.3 million in 2006, according to a May 1st...
View Article"Sicko" Shows America's Shame
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)We live in a country where a rich man's dog receives better medical care than millions of our...
View Article"Pretend" Benefits
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" made the point that it was not focusing on the uninsured, but on...
View ArticleWinners and Losers in the Mortgage Meltdown
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)The chickens have come home to roost on the speculative Bush economy - an economy built on...
View ArticleAmerica is at the Tipping Point
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)When Change to Win’s first American Dream survey was released in September 2006 and showed that...
View ArticleNew Report: Health Care Crisis Hurts Non-Union Workers More
(Crossposted to the CtW Connect blog)Here's a statement that you will probably consider uncontroversial:"The less that people have to pay out of their own pockets to have health coverage, the more...
View ArticleIs Bush's American Dream Yours? Labor Wants to Know
Ever since Change to Win began, we've been paying attention to something we think is a key indicator of working people's fortunes: how they feel about the American Dream.The American Dream means...
View ArticleUPDATED: Bush Board Launches Massive New Assault on Workers
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)With its term coming to an end, the Bush Administration's craven fealty to the most extreme...
View ArticleThe "Spiritual Leader" of Social Security Has Died
(Crossposted at the CtW Connect blog)You have probably never heard of Robert M. Ball. That's OK, most Americans haven't.And yet Ball, who died Tuesday night at the age of 93, was a key figure in...
View ArticleUPDATED: Change to Win Endorses Senator Barack Obama for President
The Change to Win partnership of labor unions has endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States.Full details (including remarks by Change to Win Chair Anna Burger) and continuing...
View ArticleWar Is Economic Policy
(Written by Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of Change to Win, and crossposted on the CtW Connect blog)One of the great myths of this election is that there is a distinction between national security...
View ArticleChange to Win: "Mark Penn Has to Go"
(Crossposted at the CtW Connect blog)Today's Wall Street Journal reveals that Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist, Mark Penn, met with Colombian officials in support of a "free" trade agreement...
View ArticleChange to Win: Mark Penn STILL Has to Go
(Crossposted at the CtW Connect blog)Since Change to Win was vocal last week in calling on Hillary Clinton to fire Mark Penn after it was revealed that he'd been working behind her back to support the...
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Mark Penn Thinks You Are Really Dumb
(Crossposted to the CtW Connect blog)... dumb enough to believe that he has been fired from Hillary Clinton's campaign staff, when in fact he has just had his job title changed.I posted about this...
View ArticleTell Hillary: There is No Place at the Table for Union-Busters
(Crossposted at the CtW Connect blog)As I have documented in this space, despite the impression you may have gotten from the media coverage of Mark Penn's fate, he continues to play an important...
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McCainonomics: More of the Same-onomics
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)Well, John McCain has finally seen fit to share his "plan" for revitalizing the American economy. He laid out the details in a speech on Tuesday at Carnegie Mellon...
View ArticleObama: "We Can Take This Country Back" (VIDEO)
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)Yesterday, the American Dream Candidate, Senator Barack Obama, stopped by the annual convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) in his hometown of Chicago...
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George Bush Doesn't Care About Exploding People
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)When the Imperial Sugar plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia exploded on February 8, killing thirteen workers and starting a fire that blazed for a week, it brought national...
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This Injustice Brought to You by the Letter "U"
(Crossposted from CtW Connect)... "U" for "Unfair", that is.The story begins on May 9, when organizers from the United Farm Workers were startled by the situation they found at the cherry orchards of...
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What Corporations Are Monitoring YOUR Blog?
(Crossposted from CtW Connect)Apparently even though they felt their financial situation was so dire they had to fire their 3,400 most productive workers to cut costs, management at Circuit City had...
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The Preventable Death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)Meet Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez.On May 13, seventeen-year-old Maria was a farmworker, working the grape vineyard of West Coast Grape Farming in Stockton, California...
View ArticleVIDEO: "Speak Up and Demand Justice"
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)Yesterday, I told you the tragic story of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez -- a 17-year-old girl who died in a sweltering California vineyard last month because her employer...
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TAKE ACTION: Make Fair Trade the Law of the Land
We've all seen the results of the "free" trade system that has run our economy for the last few decades: communities shattered, families broken apart, dreams run aground. And in exchange? A tidal wave...
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Protecting Workers' Lives EVERY Day
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)On June 2, I told you about the tragic story of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez -- a 17-year-old pregnant woman who died in the vineyards of Stockton, California on May 16,...
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Who Is Charlie Black? Find Out Here
(Crossposted at CtW Connect)Code Name:Mr. BlackCurrent Job:Chief Advisor to John McCainPrevious Job:Lobbyist for corporate criminals and violent dictatorsMeet more of Charlie Black's clients, after the...
View ArticleWhat Wal-Mart Is Afraid Of: You
(Cross-posted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)There’s a great story in today’s Wall Street Journal describing how Wal-Mart, terrified of how a President Obama might make it easier for workers to...
View ArticleThe Questions You Won't Hear McCain Answer (UPDATED w/VIDEO)
For Kossacks, it's not news that a John McCain presidency would be a disaster for working people. The McCain agenda -- more tax cuts for the rich, privatization of Social Security, and war without end...
View ArticleFunny new video: "Real McCain of Genius"
The Change to Win Truth Squad -- a group of workers following John McCain around the country, exposing his anti-worker agenda -- is proud to announce the release of a new video: "Real McCain of...
View ArticleDayton is ROCKING as Workers Unite to Beat McCain
This is a postcard from one corner of the nationwide effort organized labor is making to elect Barack Obama -- the American Dream Candidate -- President of the United States.I've been spending today in...
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WaMu CEOs Pocketed Tens of Millions While Company Collapsed
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)When you picked up your morning paper, you probably noticed the screaming headlines about how Washington Mutual, one of America’s largest banks, had...
View ArticleHow to Lose a Senate Seat: Saxby Chambliss vs. Worker Safety
(This diary cross-posted at CtW Connect)CtW Connect readers know that one issue I’ve been following there for quite some time is the problem of combustible dust— invisible particles that can build up...
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Monument Avenue
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.— L. P. HartleyIf you’ve ever been to Richmond, Virginia, you’re familiar with...
View ArticleThe New Progressive Consensus
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)Ever since it became clear that Barack Obama was going to win the Presidency, pundits have been frantically trying to spin the idea that no matter...
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In Case You Needed Confirmation That Times Are Hard
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)… you can find it in today’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply (-533,000) in November, and the...
View ArticleBush Removes Farm Worker Protections. Help Put Them Back
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)You might think a guy with a 29% approval rating and only a few weeks left in his term of office would just keep his head down, do a few photo-ops,...
View Article2008: 1st Significant Increase in Union Membership Since '83
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)Remember how I told you a year ago that 2007 had seen the first increase in U.S. union membership since 1983?Well, America's workers haven't been...
View ArticleSave the Obama Cabinet's Progressive Voice
One of the most contentious debates since the election is whether or not Obama's cabinet picks are progressive enough to chart out a truly new direction for America.There's at least one nominee,...
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How Much Is A Worker's Life Worth? $7,000
(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)Remember back in November of last year when we told you the tragic story of Jdimytai Damour, a 34-year-old temporary worker at a Long Island Walmart...
View ArticleWhat Turns a Job Into a Good Job? You Do
(This diary cross-posted from the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)Amidst all the gloom about job losses, some news outlets have been saying that they’ve found a ray of light — Walmart’s announcement...
View ArticleGood Green Jobs: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality
(Crossposted from the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)You’ve probably heard lots of buzz about "green jobs" lately. But, you may have wondered, what does all that buzz translate to in the real world?...
View ArticleA Worker's Death, A Niece's Mission
"All he needed was water."(Crossposted at the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)One year ago, farmworker Audon Felix Garcia died of heat stroke after a day working without adequate heat protection in a...
View ArticleHow Crazy Is "Health Reform=Euthanasia"? THIS Crazy
(Crossposted on the Change to Win blog, CtW Connect)One of the more baffling elements of the health care debate has been the sudden emergence on the right of the idea that President Barack Obama’s...
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We Can Weatherize America. Here's Why We Should.
Above: LIUNA General President Terry O’Sullivan, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, workers and neighborhood residents talk weatherizationI’ve told you before about how the labor and...
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This Halloween, Buy Your Treats Union-Made
It’s almost Halloween, and you know what that means: buying tons of candy. But why give your money to a company that treats its workers like Oompa-Loompas? They were slaves who got paid in beans,...
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