In case you haven't yet seen John Kerry's testimony on global warming at the hearings on his nomination for secretary of state, here it is:
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Verizon workers are still fighting for middle-class jobs. Help make tax-dodging Verizon take notice:
Here's a company that paid a negative federal income tax rate from 2008 to 2010, dodged state taxes, raked in enormous state and local subsidies, paid its top executives more than a quarter of a billion dollars over four years, cut jobs and is engaged in a long battle with its union workers over Verizon's demands for things like eliminating their job security and disability benefits, freezing their pensions and downgrading their health insurance.
Verizon has repeatedly made it clear that they agree with the union members that this is a battle over middle-class jobs. Specifically, Verizon thinks middle-class jobs shouldn't be good jobs, that lousy health care and benefits and no job security are good enough for people in the middle class and that working people shouldn't fight for better—job security and good health care should be the province of the 1 percent.
|
Tweet of the Day:
Every Monday through Friday you can catch the Kagro in the Morning Show 9 AM PT by dropping in
here, or you can download the
Stitcher app (found in the app stores or at Stitcher.com), and find a live stream there, by searching for "Netroots Radio."
High Impact Posts. The Week's High Impact Posts. Top Comments. Overnight News Digest.