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Thank you, Donald Trump, for helping the Democrats take back Kentucky

By Mark | November 5, 2019

Yesterday, at a rally for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin in Lexington, Donald Trump said to the crowd, “You gotta vote, because, if you lose, it sends a really bad message.” He then went on to add, “You can’t let that happen to me.” Well, they let it happen to him. Continuing the trend we saw […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Amy McGrath, Andy Beshear, angry majority, coattails, Donald Trump, election results, Fayette County, Kentucky, Kris Kobach, Lexington, Matt Bevin, Mitch McConnell, political rally, post-fact, Scott Walker, Trump 2020 | 131 Comments

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, collective bargaining, 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, 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, collective bargaining, Corporate Crime, David Burns, Debra Plowman, doublespeak, Jane Cunningham, labor, LD 1346, Maine, minimum wage, Missouri, murals, 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, collective bargaining, Frances Perkins, garment trade, International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, labor history, Maine, murals, 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

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Thank you, Donald Trump, for helping the Democrats take back Kentucky

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

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