Why is it that whenever there is a crisis working class people not only have to pay to bail out the rich people, but they must also take the pay cuts while the people who caused the problems get bonuses? This is no more clear then with the case of Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. This Union Pilot...

Tuesday Morning News Roundup It appears that Karl Rove will be testifying on Capitol Hill about the nine fired US attorneys. Executive privilege will not cover Mr. Rove anymore. Rove’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, has suggested that Karl Rove will not take the fifth when testifying before Congress, ...

ADP is out with its own "pre-unemployment number" again for January, and the jobs lost aren't expected to be pretty.  The payroll company now expects that the US private sector lost some 522,000 jobs in January.  So far, estimates for Friday's unemployment data are for a loss of ...

After decades of decline, Union membership is slowly crawling back upwards: The percentage of American workers belonging to a union jumped in 2008, the first statistically significant increase in the 25 years that the figure has been reported, reversing a long decline in union membership. In 2008, u...

Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) is looking about as ugly as you could expect.  The motorcycle manufacturer posted dismal earnings, announced a factory mothballing, and announced layoffs.  This doesn't just throw 2009 into the toilet.  This economy could end up shunning the company f...

You know times are more than tough when an industry's leader is caught like a roach on its back.  That is the position that Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) finds itself in at the onset of 2009.  The implications will not stop with Seagate, as consumer trends challenge the traditional storag...

At the banquet table of nature there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything; and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization. -A. Philip Randolph, F...

by Walter Brasch The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and t...

The hell? In an interview following a Dec. 10 press conference where he and four other senators aired their opposition to the proposed bailout deal struck by congressional leaders and the White House (and approved by the U.S. House of Representatives 237-170 that evening), Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., w...

Nothing could be finer than a lesbian in the cabinet. But does she have to be an heiress, turned romantic revolutionary, who confuses the American Labor Movement with the edgy glamor of the Paris Commune? The buzz is that the Obama team is vetting Mary Beth Maxwell for Secretary of Labor. She would ...