Views Archives Index
- Romney spokesman claims credit for Obama auto rescue Mitt repeatedly slammed
- American Enterprise Institute And Brookings Must-Read: 'The Republicans Are The Problem'
- Demonizing unions makes no sense
- The Koch Brothers – Exposed!
- End the Delays Deadly to Workers
- Mitt Romney, American Parasite
- Why the battle over Mitt Romney's `silver spoon' upbringing matters
- Jonah Goldberg: The Gilded Age Was Awesome for Poor People
- More Help for the Wealthy
- The Wages of Ideology
- An economic recovery that leaves workers further behind
- This is the future Republicans want for education
- Taking Credit Where None Is Due
- In Executive Pay, a Rich Game of Thrones
- Men in Black
- Calling Radicalism By Its Name
- Pink Slime Economics
- The Roberts Court Defines Itself
- Judicial activists in the Supreme Court
- The rich are different; they get richer
- Tea Party reading of history mars SCOTUS debate
- Uninsured freeloaders' option: Stay out of the ER
- Minnesota's War on Voting
- Lobbyists, Guns and Money
- Paranoia Strikes Deeper
- The GOP's assault on labor rights: What is happening in the states?
- Listening to the 'Hidden nation' of the unemployed
- The Careless House Budget
- State GOP Budget Continues War on Women and Children
- The Incomplete Greatness of Barack Obama
- Skipped pension payments undercut public employees, state economy
- The Senate Overachieves
- Freeloaders' Check Off for 1st day of RTW4less in IN
- Budget coup that really wasn't
- Ignorance Is Strength
- State GOP's schools plan is same old hacking
- Government for the Super Rich: Top 0.01% Control Political Process
- Budget shenanigans a blow to
- transparency
- A Civil Right to Unionize
- It isn't the debt, stupid, it's globalization
- It isn't the debt, stupid, it's globalization
- The Possum Republicans
- A Million Jobs
- Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost
- The Job-Creating Mercury Rule
- America's last hope: A strong labor movement
- Manufacturing Revival a Worthy Goal, but Obama's Timid Plans Won't Get Job Done
- Santorum's Gospel of Inequality
- Why Governors Matter
- Small Thinking
- The Electoral Wasteland
- Edward DeMarco: The Ideologue Who's Holding Homeowners - And The Economy - Hostage
- We Need a Second Party
- How Santorum & Romney's Fake First Amendment Endangers All Protections For Workers
- Hoffa: Michigan politicians face political risk in fighting unions
- A Terrible Transportation Bill
- The Payroll Tax Fight
- Things Are Not O.K.
- Romney, the Rich and the Rest
- Romney Isn't Concerned
- Romney in October: 'The people who need help most are not the poor'
- Turning the 'Buffett Rule' Into Law
- The Grover Norquist "Impeach Obama" Fantasy
- Don't Stop the Debates
- Pensions Aren't the Problem for State Budgets
- Mr. Gingrich's Deceptions
- Horatio Alger Debunked
- ‘Licking Their Chops’ on K Street and Capitol Hill
- Dissent in the Jobs Council
- The GOP: Unmasked and Undone
- America Isn't a Corporation
- Back to the Robber Barons
- Seeking weaker workers
- Businessmen and Economics
- The Republican Contest
- Wall Street Turned a Crisis Into a Cartel: William D. Cohan
- A Shameful Attack on Working Families in Indiana
- Bain, Barack and Jobs
- So Much Fun. So Irrelevant.
- Where the Real Jobs Are
- Carelessly Mistaking Theater For Policy
- Why people hate Congress
- Carelessly Mistaking Theater For Policy
- Why people hate Congress
- Keeping Students From the Polls
- Putting Paychecks at Risk
- A Fraction of a Tax Cut
- Inconvenient Income Inequality
- Shutdown Deal Cuts Winter Heating Aid For Low-Income Families, Boosts Defense Spending
- Politics Over Principle
- Debt isn't immoral
- The Insidious Fine Print
- JOBS will cure what ails Washington state
- Depression and Democracy
- The 1 Percent Club's Misguided Protectors
- The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy
- All the G.O.P.'s Gekkos
- The Real Way to Help Small Business
- I'm rich, but I'm not a job creator; middle-class consumers are
- What Is to Be Done about the Oligarchy?
- The Republican Attack on Federal Workers
- Previous articles are available here
- Michael Tomasky: GOP Is Set to Self-Destruct Over Payroll Tax
- Governor right to put proposal to hike taxes before voters
- What's Really Behind the Nationwide Raids Against #OWS
- We Are the 99.9%
- How Occupy Wall Street Can Restore Clout of the 99%: Scott Turow
- Republican Financial Plans
- Labor law for the 1%
- Sen. Harkin: Republican attacks on workers' rights won't create jobs
- Did Bloomberg do Occupy Wall Street a favor?
- Unions win, Personhood loses: what does it mean?
- Sorry, GOP, But It Looks Like America's Bullsh*t Detector Just Went Off
- Back to Common Sense at the Polls
- Our tax dollars shouldn’t subsidize big corporate profits
- How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich
- The real reasons Americans distrust government
- Cuts to '99 percent' hurt small businesses
- The Next Fight Over Jobs
- Oligarchy, American Style
- Elizabeth Warren's anger
- Senators who oppose infrastructure spending are putting the rich’s interests first
- Companies enjoying tax breaks should 'give three' percent back
- Tales From the Supercommittee
- Bombs, Bridges and Jobs
- America’s Exploding Pipe Dream
- Lessons for #OWS: It’s Illegal to be Homeless in Public
- Wall Street isn’t winning — it’s cheating
- Americans Support 99 Percent Movement Causes, View GOP As Defenders Of The Rich
- Jobs aplenty Americans don't want
- It’s Consumer Spending, Stupid
- Screw the Big Banks and the Corporate Welfare Pony They Rode in on
- Even Worse Than Citizens United
- Occupy the Classroom
- 99% will pay the price for I-1183 liquor privatization
- Why won't media report aggressively on GOP jobs plan?
- The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America
- Rabbit-Hole Economics
- What they're fighting for
- Finally Making Sense on Wall Street
- This Time, It Really Is Different
- The Myth of Voter Fraud
- Confronting the Malefactors
- Unsavvy People
- Where's the Jobs Bill?
- Longshoreman Struggle Poses Critical Question: When Is It Worth Breaking the Law?
- Teamsters president James Hoffa right to encourage liberals to get mad
- Phony Fear Factor
- President Obama shouldn’t be afraid of a little class warfare
- The demonstrated danger of cross-border trucking
- Initiative I-1125 would choke off transportation projects
- Can a Movement Save the American Dream?
- Less Liquor For Us, More Money For Costco, An Even Trade?
- Taxes, the Deficit and the Economy
- The end of the middle class?
- Egghead and Blockheads
- Leadership Crisis
- Is common sense returning to state politics?
- GOP Reveals Depth of Voter-Exclusion Plan
- The American Jobs Act Highlights The Difference Between The Two Parties
- Focus on creating jobs, then attack the deficit: Jim Hoffa
- The Jobs Speech
- Setting Their Hair on Fire
- Good Jobs
- This Labor Day
- The dysfunctional Republican Party
- Undermining the law in the Senate
- Paul Krugman: Eric and Irene
- Union movement can restore America's middle class
- The New Resentment of the Poor
- An undeserved attack on the 'undeserving poor'
- It's past time to put America back to work
- Social Security vs. Ponzi schemes in one Venn diagram
- Verizon strike has bigger lessons for U.S. economy
- What if Republicans Closed the E.P.A.?
- Obama's Deal for the Bankers: Amnesty for the Indefensible
- Do state Republicans support killing TAA?
- Republicans for Tax Hikes
- President's Bus Tour Suggests Broken Moral Compass
- The Tea Party's Revolt Undermines the Private Sector More Than it Reins in 'Big Government'
- Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
- Michele Bachman, Christian Reconstructionism and the Law
- Democracy Died First in Wisconsin - Long Live the Oligarchs
- "Democrats need to find out what they stand for and get busy standing for it."
- Scott Walker's Ludicrous Claim of Victory
- Wisconsin's Warning to Union-Busters
- Labor and Dems lost. They should be proud of what they accomplished.
- Deficit our country faces is a moral deficit
- The Rule-or-Ruin Republicans
- I Want My America Back -- not the Tea Party's America
- How weak Democrats enable hard-line Republicans
- Downgrade blame? GOP gets it
- The F.A.A., After the Republicans
- Union is NOT a dirty word!
- Tempest in a Tea Party
- The Centrist Cop-Out
- Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own
- CEOs to workers: More for me, less for you
- Job creators…
- Fighting Back Against Unpatriotic Attempt to Undermine Our Safety, Security, Economy
- They, Too, Sing America
- Getting to Crazy
- Hoffa: An Unequal America Is A Weaker America
- Paul Krugman: No, We Can’t? Or Won’t?
- The president and the unions: The community organizer isn't a labor organizer
- The real causes of the economic crisis? They're history.
- Why the Republican War on Workers' Rights Undermines the American Economy
- Rick Hicks in The Everett Herald: State should move forward with distribution bill
- Choose voters over donors on 'free trade'
- Screwing the Pooch (and We're the Pooch)
- Medicare and Mediscares
- Workers give, business gets in Legislature
- In Boeing case, right-wing flies off course
- ‘We’re not Wisconsin?’ No, arguably we are worse
- America the Stony-Hearted
- The Need for Greed
- America Held Hostage
- Boeing shouldn't blame NLRB for doing its job
- Business Groups Running Up Score In Olympia
- The Unwisdom of Elites
- The Ryan Plan for Medicaid
- No to more furloughs - state workers are doing their share
- Public pensions: a system that works for all
- Boeing and the N.L.R.B
- Let's Not Be Civil
- The Government is Not a Household, and Shouldn’t Be Run Like One
- Budget Battles: Tax and Spending Myths and Realities
- The Peasants need Pitchforks
- Why Pay Congress?
- American Workers Got What They Deserved
- American Thought Police
- Rising Wealth Inequality: Should We Care
- The War on Workers: L.A. Is On!
- The Corporate Conquest of America
- This Is What Class Warfare Looks Like
- Hoffa: "Our Fight Has Just Begun"
- Robert Reich: Governor Walker's Coup D'Etat
- Jim McDermott: Crushing Workers Won't Solve Deficits
- Goon-Squad Politics: How the Wisc. GOP Trampled Democracy to Appease Their Wealthy Backers
- If It Sounds Too Good ... What You Need to Know, but Don't, About Privatizing Infrastructure
- The Hollow Cry of ‘Broke’
- When Unions Go Bust, We All Do
- Wisconsin Shows Failure of Democrats to Back Pro-Labor Reforms
- The Republican Shakedown
- Union Busting: The Real Call from the Koch Brothers
- Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.
- Today in Madison, I saw my America
- Look for the Union Lable
- Wisconsin Power Play
- Divide and Conquer
- Petrochem Claiming Building Trades Work
- Eat the Future
- Buyer's Remorse for Business Leader Who Spearheaded RTW Effort in Louisiana
- Aggressive Attacks on Unions Begin
- Drug Industry Girds for Rise in Its Share of Overhaul
- If Health Care Reform Fails, America's Innovation Gap Will Grow
- YRC Teamsters in Chicago Vote Down Wage Cuts a Third Time
- Sharp Tones in Senate Health Care Bill Debate
- 'Labor Will Support Champions of Our Values'
- Health Haggling Heating Up
- 'We Got Shaft on Carhaul'
- Taking Public Outrage to the Bank
- Unions Ask Congress to Back Off Health Taxes
- Trick For Democrats is Juggling Ideology and Pragmatism
- Climate Change on Back Burner?
- 'Labor Will Support Champions of Our Values'
- Health Haggling Heating Up
- 'We Got Shaft on Carhaul'
- Taking Public Outrage to the Bank
- Unions Ask Congress to Back Off Health Taxes
- Trick For Democrats is Juggling Ideology and Pragmatism
- Climate Change on Back Burner?
- Teamsters Commend Decision to Fix Hours of Service Rule
- Obama Wrestles with Jobs Outlook
- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Hoffa Featured in the News
- IBT Calling on Whole Foods and UNFI to Support Health Care Reform
- Infighting is Blunting Labor's Clout
- Eight Questions About Health Care
July-August 2009 Stories
- Fixing Health Care is Good for Business
- Unemployment Insurance is Saving Washington Businesses
- Health Care Supporters Prepare Counterattacks
- Centrist Democrats Upbeat on Health Care Bill
- Politics at Democrats Health Care Events Spark Political Tumult
- Outside the Echo Chamber, Part 2
- Outside the Echo Chamber, Part 1
- FedEx and UPS Spar Over Union Rights
- UPS and FedEx Battle Over Employee Classification
- Congress Targets Wealthiest Earners For Health Reform Funds
- The Mighty Army of Teamster Organizers Wants YOU!
May-June 2009 Stories
- API, Labor Unions Sign Job Promotion Agreement
- Green Jobs Good Jobs?
- Teamsters Form Committee to Review YRCW Pension Issues
- Teamsters Oppose U.S. Trucking Regulator Nominee Anne Ferro
- G.M.'s New Owners, U.S. and Labor, Adjust to Roles
- First Student Victories
- The Employee Free Choice Act Will Help Workers
- Business Attacks on Labor Are Up
- Recession Drains Social Security and Medicare
- Behind Falling Wages
- U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9% but Pace of Losses Eases
March-April 2009 Stories
- Good Riddance to 2009 Legislative Session
- How Will Labor Policy Changes Affect Transportation?
- AFL-CIO and Change To Win Announce United Stance on Immigration Overhaul
- Talks on Labor Unification Continue
- U.S. Truck Drivers Don't Want to Drive in Mexico
- Picketers Tell Bank of America: 'We Want Free Choice'
- U.S. Jobless Rate Soars
- Labor Agency is Failing Workers, Report Says
- Banning Mexican Trucks Harms Washington?
- Mexico May Retaliate Against Truck Ban
- Bipartisan Senate 'Gang of Nine' Making Progress on Health Care
- Fighting for the EFCA
January-February 2009 Stories
- Fighting for the EFCA
- Obama Likely to Tap Locke for Commerce Secretary
- Newspaper Division Welcomes 1,500 NMDU Members to the IBT
- Ex-Labor Secretary: Stagnant Wages are Biggest Economic Problem
- Hoffa Vows to Fight for Good Union Green Jobs
- Entitlement Among the Titans
- Twinkie-Maker Interstate Bakeries Exits Bankruptcy
- Seattle's Garbage Trucks to Run on Natural Gas
- Prevent 'Economic Disaster'
- President Obama Offers Open Channels to Pakistan, Iran, North Korea
- Obama's EPA Move Likely to Spur Fight
- Fair-Wage Bill Clears the Senate
- Kansas First Student Workers Choose Teamsters Union
- FedEx Exposes Investors to New Risks
- James P. Hoffa: Chao's Distortions of Epic Proportions
- From Arizona Governor to Homeland Security Chief
- Texas Congressman Chosen to Lead D.O.T.
- Chao Defends Her Labor Department Tenure
- Fierce Bush Critic Picked for Justice Post
- Panetta Chosen as CIA Director
August-December 2008 Stories
- Teamsters Object to Proposed IRS Regulations
- Teamsters to Fight Weakening of Toxic Rules
- Teamsters, YRC Worldwide Reach Agreement on Economic Relief
- Teamsters Organize 40,000 Workers in 2008
- Hours-of-Service Rule a Dangerous Midnight Move
- UPS Freight Update
- Teamsters Overwhelmingly Approve IBC Agreement
- IBT Comments on DHL
- eDispatches on DHL
- New Anheuser-Busch Pact
- IBT Comment on DHL
- Devious Dino
- Anti-Worker Dino
- Flip-Flopping Dino
- Hoffa Comments on the Bailout
- Hoffa Columbia Comment
- August 19 Primary Results
- Bushwhacked Till The End
- Reckless Disregard