PRESIDENT OBAMA “THROWS IN THE TOWEL” ON POPULISM AND “INTEGRITY” IN HIS ADMINISTRATION Two obscure cabinet appointments with an outsized impact on the daily lives of Americans made by President Obama in the last month offers a startling look at the true course the president’s second term will take, argues Norman Solomon. Penny Pritzker [...]
Just over a month after an election in which the role of Corporate America in the nation’s governing philosophy played a key role, champions of the “pro-business” and anti-labor agenda are shrugging off defeat with swift action in the heart of the American manufacturing center. Quite literally the home of organized labor in the United [...]
WALMART INVOLVEMENT IN GARMENT FACTORY FIRE THAT KILLED 112 BANGLADESHI WORKERS? BETTER CALL OUR “ETHICS” DEPARTMENT FOR SOME PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY. The retail giant takes this stance since some of its Faded Glory brand clothes were found in the ashes. Walmart is heavily dependent for its cheap prices on the cheap and unsafe labor conditions [...]
PHILADELPHIA STORY: COULD BE U.S. STORY WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLOSING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (Black Agenda Report) Philadelphia is only one of the most recent of numerous school systems including Atlanta and New York City, following the lead of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago public schools in wielding a [...]
AMAZON.COM: GIVING CUSTOMERS A LITTLE BIT OF DOMESTIC SWEATSHOP LABOR WITH EVERY PURCHASE… When one thinks of substandard working conditions in the world of retail and consumer products, what usually comes to mind are images of “sweatshop” factories overseas, in the manufacturing stage of a product’s journey to the United States. But in a remarkable [...]
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