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The fact is that unions give people a ticket to the middle class. Big businesses dominate the economy. For example, the top four domestic airlines collected 41 percent of the industry’s revenue 10 years ago; today they collect 65 percent. It’s the same...
by Dem
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on Wed Sep 21, 2022 at 06:16 PM PDT
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Typical of republican “leadership”, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s promises made during his run for governor that he had — “no interest in pursuing right-to-work legislation in this state,” vowing to do “everything in my power to make sure”...
by Eric Nelson
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on Sat Apr 09, 2016 at 03:58 PM PDT
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..those are the words from Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders himself.
That thought seems to not only escape the beltway press; something they don't seem all that interested in ...
by Eric Nelson
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on Thu Jul 02, 2015 at 02:16 PM PDT
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It really is just that simple, other than making sure one does get out to vote in every election - and the austerity imposed upon Americans by the republican hasn't cost your job in the first ...
by Eric Nelson
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on Sat Jun 13, 2015 at 04:51 PM PDT
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Republicans don't know money. It might be home schooling or it might be willful ignorance, but whatever the reason, you need to protect yourself, because those who know money will prevail.
So, here ...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Fri Mar 29, 2013 at 02:00 PM PDT
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This past week, two major organizations publicly came out in support of filibuster reform legislation authored by U.S Senators Tom Udall (D. NM), Jeff Merkley (D. OR) and Tom Harkin (D. IA). ...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sat Jan 12, 2013 at 02:42 PM PST
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Bruce Webb asked “Does Social Security contribute to the Debt? To the Deficit?” in "Deficits, Debt, Social Security: Building your Conceptual Toolkit" ([http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/03/...
by Liberal Thinking
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on Sun Jan 06, 2013 at 09:51 AM PST
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My apologies for the short diary, but the talk I hear on the radio is that the NFL owners want the players to re-certify their union by Tuesday, and the nay-sayers are saying it can't be done.
But ...
by Spud1
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on Sat Jul 23, 2011 at 06:34 PM PDT
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A bold solution exists to the current infringement on worker rights by radical right-wing governors and conservative state legislatures. A National Public Employee Rights Act would take the decision ...
by dmarlow1733
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on Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 01:43 PM PDT
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I'm certain most of us have noticed the major shifts that have occurred in this country over the past 30 years.
- There has been a shift in what is considered the political "center" that has veered ...
by The 1n Only Leoni
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on Wed Mar 09, 2011 at 05:11 PM PST
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The wealth, income and wage gap in America will continue to widen under President Obama.
In 2008, union activists were fantasizing about an Obama administration committed to a remix of the ...
by laborlou
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on Fri Dec 31, 2010 at 12:01 PM PST
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With no EFCA to give unions a level playing field, today Obama's Labor Dept. took a step that's sure to infuriate big employers like WalMart who hate unions and empowering their workers, and who ...
by Lefty Coaster
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on Tue Dec 21, 2010 at 08:37 PM PST
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Who is John Kline and what is The Secret Ballot Protection Act [SBPA]?
I’m afraid we’re about to find out.
Representing Minnesota’s 2nd District, Kline will probably chair ...
by laborlou
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on Wed Nov 10, 2010 at 06:30 AM PST
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Many Jon Stewart followers see his "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Saturday as a progressive rallying cry. Stewart claims on his website it is not, saying, "If we had to sum up the political view of ...
by Mike Elk
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on Thu Oct 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM PDT
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Jack Conway and Rand Paul had a debate today. In it, Conway continued to prove why he is not only the best choice for Kentucky, and America, but why supporting him in the Orange to Blue campaign is ...
by HamptonRoadsProgressive
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on Thu Oct 14, 2010 at 02:55 PM PDT
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Elections are based on one thing and one thing only, the economy. Americans judge the economy with only one measuring stick, the unemployment rate. Want to predict if an incumbent politician of ...
by aaraujo
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on Sun Aug 29, 2010 at 07:02 AM PDT
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The Republicans have clubbed Democrats with the charge that they're for "socialism" for so many years that Dems just reflexively run away now from promoting any kind of social policies that could be ...
by Th0rn
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on Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 01:30 PM PDT
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Through the blare of screeching feedback from portable translation headsets and microphones, unionized bank workers from Brazil, England, Chile, Germany, and Uruguay are encouraging American workers ...
by Mike Elk
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on Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM PDT
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" We stand ...
by jamess
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on Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 06:56 PM PDT
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This is my first-ever diary, and it’ll probably ramble all over the place, so let me just apologize here in the front.
Here’s the sitch:
I work at that “corporate Death Star”
by undead peasant
61 comments
on Wed Jul 07, 2010 at 04:41 PM PDT
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