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Jobs, Wages and the Urgent Need for Unions

May 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism

Where are the jobs? And where is new union legislation? We need both and we need them now. We have a minimum of 15 million people out of work. We have an economy that created 230,000 jobs in March and 290,000 in April and unemployment still went from 9.7% to 9.9%. But what about the [...]

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Look For the Union Legacy.

January 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Economics, jobs

America is a society that is governed by the principle of majority rule. In a free society, some form of majority rule is the most logical application of governance. For centuries, workers have organized under the same principles of majority rule in order to use the collective power of the group to create greater leverage [...]

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