Last week in Lansing, Michigan, leaders from labor and environmental groups around the country gathered to show a united front in their opposition to efforts by Republicans in Congress to weaken environmental protections. As John Walke at the National Resources Defense Council wrote about last fall, the drumbeats are incessant: The week of October 2nd, [...]
Labor & environmental leaders unite to fight efforts to weaken environmental protections
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Vote for the 2011 Scrooge of Year
December 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Republicans are hell-bent on returning the country to the Gilded Age, with the richest 1 percent making extraordinary gains in the last decade that have created a huge wealth disparity in the country, so it’s only fitting that voting has begun for Jobs with Justice’s 12th Annual Scrooge of Year contest. The annual contest highlights [...]
Hand-me-downs and legacies
November 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today is my birthday. Like many birthdays before this one, the birthday emotions get mixed up with the Thanksgiving emotions, and I find myself celebrating my life simply by being grateful for the people I love. Sometimes that means calling with my dad just to make sure he knows how much I love him. Sometimes [...]
ACTION: Mich GOP to use “imaginary wages” & “imaginary pensions” to reduce workers’ comp benefits
November 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
You have to hand it to the Republicans in the Michigan legislature. Just when you think it’s not possible for them to kick the 99% in the face any more ruthlessly, they go and prove you wrong. Their current targets are workers who are injured on the job and the creative ways they are coming [...]
Working America introduces the “Job Tracker”. You can help make it viral.
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, has created a Job Tracker that allows you to identify companies are not doing their part to help our country and our economy. Find out which companies in your area are exporting jobs, laying off workers, endangering workers’ health or involved in cases of violations of workers’ [...]
Next on the Michigan GOP hit list: Police and firefighters
October 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
They’ve pretty much villified and demonized the unionized teachers in Michigan and taken every available step toward stripping them of any ability to bargain for and/or receive decent labor agreements. So who is next on the Michigan Republican’s hitlist? Police and firefighters, of course. Police and fire unions are opposing a bill they said would [...]
Rally & March to support University of Michigan nurses in their contract dispute
October 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
The University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council (UMPNC) has been in contract negotiations with the University of Michigan for over six months. The University has been holding firm on not making any significant concessions which is making the possibility of a strike by the 4000 unionized nurses more and more likely. I have a friend [...]
Michigan AFL-CIO elects Karla Swift as their new president
October 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
At their state convention this week, the Michigan AFL-CIO elected former We the People state director Karla Swift as their new president. Swift takes over for Mark Gaffney who led the group for 12 year. On October 3, delegates at the Michigan AFL-CIO State Convention elected Karla Swift as President and Daryl Newman as Secretary-Treasurer. [...]
The People’s News 9/27/2011
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here are today’s top Michigan news stories… LSJ: State policy recommends ties for guys, despite Gov. Rick Snyder’s casual style — After months of the governor showing up at events in a sports coat sans tie, a new directive has gone out to thousands of state employees saying ties for men are preferred when representing the state on [...]
The People’s News 9/26/11
September 26, 2011 By 2 Comments
Here are the top Michigan news stories… FREE PRESS Editorial: Unions, Michigan have no time for a right-to-work brawl - But the possibility that Republicans have the votes needed to adopt a right-to-work law doesn’t mean it would be wise — or politically profitable, by even the most cynical calculus — to do so. It is hard [...]
GOP uses FOIA case to further attack teacher unions
September 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
LANSING – The GOP war on unions and teachers continued in full force after a House Committee moved a bill that would make it a crime for a public sector union member to use a public Wi-Fi e-mail system to send or receive an e-mail or talk about forming a union in a public building. [...]
If Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination, he should probably just skip Michigan
September 17, 2011 By 2 Comments
I’m reading former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm’s new book A Governor’s Story in preparation for a review I’ll be writing for its release in a couple of days. I came across a paragraph which reminded me why Mitt Romney should probably just skip right over Michigan if he were to win the nomination. He should [...]
