Hold Fast

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times today on the importance of strong unions to economic growth and recovery. Included in his analysis is this passage on the Employee Free Choice Act: Although America and its economy need unions, it’s become nearly impossible for employees to form one. [...]

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From today’s New York Times op-ed page: This is William Kristol’s last column. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over!

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Today’s New York Times has another op-ed on the abomination that is governors appointing senators to vacant seats. This time the piece is written by David Segal, a Rhode Island state representative. Segal calls on us to remember that the 17th Amendment mandates elections to fill Senate seats. He’s right in asking Congress to push [...]

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The New York Times editorial board gets it – for Kirsten Gillibrand to be a successful senator for New York, she has to move her views to the left to represent the entire state, not merely the conservative NY-20th district. Gillibrand has already changed her views on marriage equality, coming out in favor of gay [...]

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Big business lobbyist and anti-American worker activist Rick Berman has been the subject of scrutiny on this blog before. But apparently his son, musician David Berman of the Silver Jews, has even more insight about his father than currently available from places like American Rights at Work or CREW. David’s take on his father is [...]

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Jane Hamsher has one of the best side by side organizing process comparisons I’ve seen between current organizing elections and organizing in a post-Employee Free Choice Act world. This is the “secret ballot” process, which is in place right now: A union decides they want to unionize workers of a particular company. They have to [...]

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I’d posted a few times on the outrage that would have been the appointment of aristocrat Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in New York. The idea of someone who has never ran for office or been a public servant to be handed on of the most important exclusive jobs in the land [...]

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You know what, if the Bush team is unhappy that President Obama repudiated the last eight years’ failed policies and disastrous results (while not mentioning Bush by name), they can just deal with it. Bush, Cheney and a host of top administration officials may be spending the remainders of their life carefully choosing which countries [...]

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Hillary Clinton was not asked any questions about Tibet during her confirmation hearings earlier this month. This marked the first time in sixteen years that a nominee for Secretary of State was not verbally asked about Tibet in their hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an ominous sign for how the Committee is thinking [...]

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Simply remarkable. China Central Television, or CCTV, the main state-run network, broadcast the speech live until the moment President Obama mentioned “communism” in a line about the defeat of ideologies considered anathema to Americans. After the off-screen translator said “communism” in Chinese, the audio faded out even as Mr. Obama’s lips continued to move. CCTV [...]

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