Labor

By Joseph O’ShaughnessyWe’ve written about unions here before, about how unions gave us the forty-hour workweek and weekends and pensions and a lifestyle that...

We have been mislead by Republicans about Obamacare. If health care is about the American people, then Obamacare is good and workable and economically sound. If health care is about making health insurance companies profitable, and not caring for the American people, then the Republican plan is better...but only for the health insurance industry.

by Joseph D. O'ShaughnessyI normally don't sign what we all call posts. I don't even refer to them as "posts." Rather, I call them...

Have you seen “Where to Invade Next,” the title of the latest film by gadfly documentarian, Michael Moore? I guess his films are supposed...

The hits to the American people just keep coming. Trump's cabinet is a who's who of the richest, Rightist, wrongist group of characters ever...

We must examine the Trump infrastructure plan.At first, it sounds, well, pretty good. And then you get the details.First, why do you think Trump...

Scott Walker is riding the Clown Car Express. He’s the evil clown, the one you always hear about who scares children. He is scary....

One of the most serious and largest scams now being perpetrated by the Republican Party on the American public is the “unfunded liability” state...

Every time you put gas in your car, you support Big Oil, the major oil companies, some of the largest global corporations in the...

America has never been richer. Private assets amount to over $80 trillion, more than four times the national debt and the GDP. Yet the...

American society is crumbling. Our buildings, roads, bridges, dams—all our municipal facilities are breaking down. And there is very little investment being made in...

Many people think of Fascism and they think of Nazis and the Gestapo and concentration camps. That concept, while accurate as far as it...

Government is failing Americans. A nation accustomed to creating new industries, technologies and good jobs within those industries can no longer expect vision from...

The Republicans are up to it again. Once again, they are trying to further devastate the Middle Class. Under the guise of a popular...

It’s time we began to look for ways to organize large numbers of people against the now dominant power of the Plutocracy. Unions are...