Great reporting here detailing the coordinated anti-UAW campaign between the right-wing Norquist forces and anti-union workers inside the plant. In part: While the UAW has focused much of its post-election ire on Corker, anti-union activists say a key player in their effort in Chattanooga was...
Author: Erik Loomis
I've put up another set of short reviews on my tenth-rate film blog. Read if you care. In short: Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)--I know people love this film,.
The Congressional Science Committee is at present basically the legislative arm of the Chevron octopus: For Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the country with $26.2 billion in annual profits,.
The oil industry has agreed to voluntary standards to improve safety on oil trains after a spate of recent accidents. Of course it's voluntary which means that it's unenforceable. So color me skeptical. The government can still threaten actual regulations so there is some leverage...
Head, meet desk: Several construction labor unions have decided to lend their support to the Keystone XL. Though critics charge that the pipeline will lead to a drastic increase in.
It isn't dead horse blogging (and don't worry yourselves, I still have a good number of dead horses to show you), but this essay on the forgotten history of cows.
The UAW has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over the interference of Tennessee politicians in the union election, claiming intimidation and asking that the results be thrown out and a new election held (PDF). This was an expected step and I'm...
Building on the model of professional sports, where immensely profitable owners squeeze the wages, reduce the benefits, and undermine the pensions of everyday workers because they can, the Pac-12, flush.
Once again, figure skating is a terrible sport.
I highly recommend Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price's report on growing income inequality by state since 1979. Some of their findings from the executive summary (you can download the PDF at the link). Lopsided income growth characterizes every state between 1979 and 2007. In four...
If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is.
19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.