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You’re Invited…

By Beth Becker On March 2, 2011  

Tue Mar 01, 2011 at 06:43 PM CST

You’re Invited: Blogger Call w/Rep. Charlie Rangel

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Some of you know me and many don’t, but one of the many activites I’ve been involved with over [...]

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USA Today Lies with Statistics; Falsely Claims Public Employee Pay Is Higher Than in Private Sector

By Joshua Holland On March 1, 2011  

Forget about whether you’re liberal or conservative, pro-union or anti. A simple question: in either the public or the private sector, would you not expect a college grad who has worked his or her job for 4 years to be paid significantly more than someone with a high school diploma who’s had his or her [...]

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Walker’s Wisconsin Blueprint for Neo-Feudalism

By Paul Rosenberg On February 26, 2011  

In Walker’s grand plan, union-busting is joined with crony capitalism in the fire-sale of state assets and the moving of total conrol over health-care spending into the executive branch, and away from the legislature. It’s a 3-part plan for a new form of feudalism.

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In 1st Statement Since “Prank” Call, Defiant Koch Bros Vow to ‘Continue the Fight’ in Wisconsin

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

The Madison Capital Times:

In their first published remarks since a prank caller tricked Gov. Scott Walker into thinking he was speaking with big-bucks backer David Koch himself, Koch executives said that that hoax and nearly two weeks of Madison protests have only strengthened the Koch brothers’ determination to continue to use their billions [...]

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Union-Busting Is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

Like all progressives, we obsess on the quest for good ‘framing’ quite a bit around here (when I lived in DC, even the cabbies and doormen were reading Lakoff).

So, here’s a frame. Over at AlterNet, I have a feature up arguing that labor markets only work when workers can bargain collectively. As it stands, [...]

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An open letter to residents of Wisconsin

By Kenneth Bernstein On February 24, 2011  

This diary is the contents of an email widely distributed by Cynthia Koebert. It was written by her mother Jo Koebert to her brother. I have the permission of both Koeberts to distribute. I urge you to read it and to pass it on

Here are the words of Jo Koebert:

I am a Wisconsin [...]

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Note to Tea-Baggers: Public Workers Aren’t Demanding Anything from the “Taxpayers”

By Joshua Holland On February 23, 2011  

A common refrain from people wishing to destroy public employees’ unions is that their workers are ‘demanding more from the tax-payers.’ It’s a testament to how confused the Right is about the role of government.

Public employees are not demanding anything from “the taxpayer.” They are workers demanding fair wages from their bosses.

We live [...]

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State Labor Attacks — Not Just Wisconsin

By Dave Johnson On February 22, 2011  

The attack on public-employee unions in Wisconsin is in the news because of the large Egypt-style turnout of supporters at the state capital (70,000 on Saturday!), and the dramatic theater effect of Democratic Senators leaving the state to delay a vote on the measure, and give the public time to rally.

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