Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.
Children should spend their time playing games and studying in school. They shouldn’t be put to work in mines and in workshops around hot metals. The United States, for its part, should not provide for a special, low-cost importation of metals that have been provided by child workers.
Democrats Jan Schakowsky and George Miller spoke against Barack Obama’s Columbia Free Trade Agreement.
Senator Charles Schumer went on a public relations offensive yesterday, stepping before the microphones to declare that “To me, nothing is more important than jobs.” Standing in front of American factory workers at a “New York based company that sees its sales and supply chains undercut by Chinese imports,” he gestured back toward them and [...]
When looking for current membership information on the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, my eyebrows first arched when I read Rep. Major Owens listed as a current member. Major Owens hasn’t been in the Congress since 2006. Checking out the latest press releases, I notice they’re from… 2003. Yep, 2003. Nominal caucus leaders Linda [...]
For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.
Republicans say that they support family values. Democrats say that they support workers’ rights. Both of these are provided for with H.R. 626.
It’s fair to say that, if John McCain had been elected President, he would have used his power to veto the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and frustrated the ability of workers to seek compensation when they are discriminated against.
Barry Welsh: I think we have to look at our trade agreements. It’s my opinion that, most of the time, trade agreements in America are drawn up with the purpose of controlling wages, as opposed to being beneficial to consumer pricing, which is the guise that they’re done under.
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