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Threats to American workers demand a President like FDR

By Mark | April 4, 2011

Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has a great column about Maine Governor Paul LePage up on the Christian Science Monitor website this evening. LePage, as you’ll recall from our conversation a few days ago, is the man who recently made headlines for ordering murals depicting the advances of organized labor to be painted […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, History, Politics | Also tagged 1936, 40 hour work week, Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, deregulation, FDR, Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, GE, Jeffrey Immelt, labor, labor history, minimum wage, monopoly, New Deal, Obama, open for business, Paul LePage, privatization, Robert Reich, rolling back the New Deal, unions, Wall Street | 11 Comments

Get ready for the rollback of U.S. child labor laws… It’s starting

By Mark | April 2, 2011

As we discussed here not too long ago, Paul LePage, the new Tea Party-supported Governor of Maine, recently made national headlines for ordering the removal of a mural depicting the advances made by organized labor from his state’s Department of Labor building. The mural, among other things, includes a panel acknowledging the plight of Maine’s […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Act to Enhance Access to the Workplace for Minors, child labor, Corporate Crime, David Burns, Debra Plowman, doublespeak, Jane Cunningham, labor, LD 1346, Maine, minimum wage, Missouri, murals, Paul LePage, Rachel Maddow, rewriting history, threats to the middle class, union busting | 20 Comments

Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire

By Mark | March 27, 2011

As I didn’t see it anywhere in the corporate media over the past few days, I thought that I should at least mention that March 25th marked the 100th anniversary of New York’s Triangle Factory Fire. The tragic event claimed the lives of 146 people, most of them young immigrant women, and galvanized the American […]

Posted in History, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1911, Asch Building, Clara Lemlich, cloakmakers, Frances Perkins, garment trade, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, labor history, Maine, murals, Paul LePage, Pinkertons, revisionist history, rewriting history, sweatshop, Triangle Factory Fire, Triangle Waist Company, union busting, unions, William Looney, Women's Trade Union League, worker safety, workers rights | 13 Comments

What Does Gov. Snyder’s Budget Mean to You?

By Mark | March 22, 2011

I spent this evening at a panel discussion at Washtenaw Community College hosted by Michigan State Senator Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor). The event was called, “What Does Governor Snyder’s Budget Mean to You?”, and joining the Senator were Ypsilanti Mayor Paul Schrieber, Superintendent of Ypsilanti Public Schools Dedrick Martin, Eastern Michigan University Professor and Chair […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2012 Michigan budget, Audrey Dowell, Dedrick Martin, Deficit Elimination Plan, Earned Income Tax Credit, Emergency Financial Manager, graduated income tax, Headlee, homeless, Homestead Property Tax Credit, Howard Bunsis, local income tax, metropolitan authorities, Michigan Business Tax, Michigan League for Human Services, Paul Schreiber, progressive taxation, public employee unions, Rebekah Warren, regressive taxation, revenue sharing, Rick Snyder, tax the rich, taxation, taxing the poor, threats to the middle class, union busting, Washtenaw County, What Does Gov. Snyder’s Budget Mean to You?, Ypsilanti Public Schools | 39 Comments

Relying on Jim Kunstler to bring me down to earth

By Mark | March 16, 2011

When I catch myself smiling at a stranger, sniffing a flower, or doing something else which might give the impression that I’m anything other than completely fatalistic, I run home and check in with my favorite prophet of doom, Jim “fuck you” Kunstler. Well, this evening, when watching video of young people in Lansing discussing […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged democracy protests, food shortages, gas rationing, global climate change, Jim Kunstler, Libya, Middle East, Muammar Gaddafi, oil, optimism, pessimism, Struggle Against Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East, the growing gap between rich and poor, The Long Emergency, threats to the middle class, unions | 16 Comments

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Threats to American workers demand a President like FDR

Get ready for the rollback of U.S. child labor laws… It’s starting

Remembering the Triangle Factory Fire

Relying on Jim Kunstler to bring me down to earth

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