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  • Opinion:CBS's "Undercover Boss" Nothing But a Fairy Tale

    By AFL-CIO February 08, 2010

    By Mike Hall As kids, we all loved the sugar-coated fairy tales of handsome and brave princes rescuing beautiful princesses from despotic kings. The new CBS “reality” show “Undercover Boss” that debuted last night after the Super Bowl is a 21st century...

  • Opinion:Craigslist Won't Slow World's Oldest Profession

    By Reason Foundation May 13, 2009

    By Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward Today Craigslist announced that it is removing ads for "erotic services" from the site . This isn't totally shocking in the wake of the Craigslist Killer panic and the resulting pressure from state attorneys general to do something . Also...

  • News:RNC Chairman Michael Steele Creates Fake Facebook Page

    By AFL-CIO June 19, 2009

    Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has been called a lot of names. Here’s another one for him: cheater. It’s not surprising Steele and the Republicans are embarrassed about their party. But Steele has hit a new low (insert Munch’s “Scream” here): He’s set up an RNC...

  • Opinion:Why Buying an iPod is Not Un-American

    By The Cato Institute July 21, 2009

    We own three iPods at my house, including a recently purchased iPod Touch . Since many of the iPod parts are made abroad, is my family guilty of allowing our consumer spending to “leak” abroad, depriving the American economy of the consumer stimulus we are told it so desperately needs? If...

  • Opinion:Why Raising Minimum Wage Hurts Workers & the Economy

    By Reason Foundation July 23, 2009

    The federal government is trying to strengthen the U.S. auto industry . So here's a great idea for what it can do: Tell the Big Three to raise their prices across the board. That would help in some obvious ways. Higher prices would mean bigger profit margins on every sale. Bigger profits would...

  • News:Federal Workers Paid Way More Than Private Sector

    By The Cato Institute August 24, 2009

    The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its annual data on compensation levels by industry (Tables 6.2D, 6.3D, and 6.6D here ). The data show that the pay advantage enjoyed by federal civilian workers over private-sector workers continues to expand. The George W. Bush years were very...

  • Opinion:Employers Exploiting Guest Worker Program

    By AFL-CIO December 23, 2009

    Alexis Spencer Notabartolo, researcher for the AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees ( DPE ), writes about a new report, which calls for reform of the nation’s H-1B guest worker program. The introduction of major comprehensive immigration reform legislation last week has...

  • Research:Study Proves Rise in Anti-Union Intimidation

    By AFL-CIO May 20, 2009

    WASHINGTON, DC — A new study by renowned labor expert and Cornell University professor Kate Bronfenbrenner reveals that private sector employer opposition to workers' efforts to form unions has intensified and become more punitive than in the past. Employers are more than twice as likely to use...

  • Opinion:Wal-Mart Lowers Prices for Poor -- and Improves Their Health

    By The Cato Institute June 09, 2009

    As someone who believes in liberty, my natural inclination is to defend a company like Wal-Mart from the usual attacks. You know, the company should pay its employees more (sure, just like all other companies, including libertarian think tanks!). Wal-Mart destroys local businesses (that is...

  • News:Is Reviving the Latino Workforce the Key to Rebuilding America?

    By AFL-CIO June 19, 2009

    The recession has hurt all America’s workers, especially Latino workers. Despite their growing political power, Latinos are still at the bottom of the economic ladder. Until the nation enacts policies that help lift Latinos and other communities of color, the economy cannot fully recover...

  • Opinion:Hey Obama, How About Reforming Legal Immigration?

    By Heritage Foundation June 30, 2009

    H-1B visas allow foreigners, who have an undergraduate degree or higher, to work in the United States. Currently only 65,000 visas can be issued each year; a number which is far too low. Yet, when President Obama talks about ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ the discussion is anything but...

  • Opinion:Public "Servants" Paid Well, Thank You Very Much

    By The Cato Institute July 01, 2009

    By Neal McCluskey Those who think that the college -educated, or soon to be so, should have more and more of their education funded by taxpayers – whether those taxpayers themselves attended college or not – are shooting off the fireworks a bit early this year, celebrating increasingly...

  • News:AFL-CIO Calls America's Young Workers a "Lost Decade"

    By AFL-CIO September 01, 2009

    Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers in this country: Since 1999, more of them now have lower-paying jobs , if they can get a job at all; health care is a rare luxury and retirement security is something for their parents, not them. In fact, many—younger than...

  • Opinion:Labor Day Fact -- Unions Unpopular

    By Heritage Foundation September 07, 2009

    While Americans now celebrate the end of summer over Labor Day weekend, Labor Day originally began in the 1890s as a celebration of “the strength and esprit de corps” of labor unions . In their early days unions fought primarily to improve working conditions and protect workers rights.

  • News:Forced Child Labor Still a Major Problem

    By AFL-CIO September 21, 2009

    Child labor , says U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, continues to be a serious global “problem in 21st century society ” and says the United States “must do everything in our power to end these shameful practices.” Solis’ comments came with the release earlier this month of three new...

  • Opinion:Extending Unemployment Insurance a "Moral, Economic Must"

    By AFL-CIO December 08, 2009

    To tackle our nation’s ongoing jobs crisis, the AFL-CIO has put forth a five-point plan to put people back to work and restore our economy . AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka presented this five-part plan at the White House Jobs Summit last week. The first step in this plan is to...

  • Opinion:Prostitutes' Rights -- the Latest Feminist Cause

    By Jill Stanek December 10, 2009

    I don't know, I just don't know. The world is a backward place. Lori at Feministing is celebrating International Human Rights Day today by championing the rights of Indian " sex workers ": In honor of this special anniversary , and in an effort to highlight grassroots efforts to ensure...

  • News:American Neo-Nazi Leader Convicted of Threats, Intimidation

    By U.S. Dept. of Justice December 20, 2009

    WASHINGTON --- William A. "Bill" White, the self-proclaimed commander of the neo-Nazi group the American National Socialist Workers Party, was convicted by a federal jury for threatening three individuals and for attempting to intimidate litigants in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit ...

  • Opinion:The Past Decade the Worst for American Workers

    By AFL-CIO January 03, 2010

    Whoa. This from The Washington Post : The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times… WaPo is the kind of newspaper that leans heavily toward emphasizing happy economic news, even in the face of 10 percent unemployment . So its coverage of the decade of...

  • News:1,000 Scholars and Academics Support Employee Free Choice

    By AFL-CIO May 08, 2009

    By Seth Michaels, AFL-CIO America’s top scholars of economics, history, law and the social sciences have announced their strong support of the Employee Free Choice Act . More than 1,000 professors and scholars have signed on to a letter to Congress saying quick passage of the...

  • Opinion:Employees Blocked from Getting Fair First Contract

    By AFL-CIO June 11, 2009

    The misleading attacks by Big Business on the Employee Free Choice Act now are aimed at the provision that would guarantee that workers can get a fair first contract. Their scare tactics are not only misleading, they’re hypocritical. Right now, workers lack a legal means to ensure they get a...

  • News:AFL-CIO Says U.S. Corporations Destroying Good Jobs

    By AFL-CIO June 11, 2009

    Big Business wants it both ways: It wants to wrap itself in the ol’ red, white and blue while feeding the decline of the U.S. economy through its actual practices. Here’s the latest example of such corporate hypocrisy. Over the Memorial Day weekend, J.C. Penney advertised a silkscreen...

  • News:Immigrant and Minority Workers at Risk of Dying on the Job

    By AFL-CIO June 12, 2009

    Eight years of Bush administration cutbacks in funding for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), particularly for an adequate inspection force, puts New York state workers at greater risk of dying on the job, a new report reveals. “Dying for Work in New York,” released...

  • Opinion:Latest IRS "Scheme" -- Tax Workers' Cell Phones

    By The Cato Institute June 14, 2009

    By Daniel J. Mitchell With about 100,000 employees (more than the CIA and FBI combined), the IRS has plenty of people who daydream about new ways of taking money from taxpayers. The latest scheme to emanate from the tax bureaucracy is to classify employer-provided cell phones as a taxable...

  • Opinion:Former Labor Secretaries Support "Employee Free Choice Act"

    By AFL-CIO June 15, 2009

    Ray Marshall, secretary of labor from 1977 to 1981, and Robert Reich, secretary of labor from 1993 to 1997, have borne witness to a big shift in the economy and the power of workers over past decades. They’ve seen an economy weakened by inequality, corporate greed and the decreasing ability of...

  • News:Wal-Mart Supports Government Health Care

    By Reason Foundation June 30, 2009

    In May, Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey warned of the coming " health -care corporatism," writing that "the country's major health care producers, including insurance companies, hospital and physician organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and health care labor unions ...

  • Opinion:Forcing Workers to Perform Abortions Part of Health Reform?

    By Heritage Foundation July 22, 2009

    The Alliance Defense Fund announced today that a lawsuit had been filed in federal court on behalf of a Catholic nurse who says her employer, Mount Sinai Hospital, forced her to assist in performing a late-term abortion in spite of her strongly held religious beliefs against abortion.

  • Opinion:Auto Workers Union Says "Cash for Clunkers" Was Success

    By AFL-CIO August 25, 2009

    The Obama administration’s “ cash for clunkers ” program, which expired yesterday, was a smashing success. It delivered important benefits to the environment and the U.S. economy , the UAW says. And one highly respected analyst reports the program spawned record car sales. UAW...

  • Opinion:Bailed-Out CEOs Pocket Millions, Lay Off Hundreds of Thousands

    By AFL-CIO September 03, 2009

    Executives of banks that were bailed out with taxpayer dollars have pulled down stock options that guarantee them mega-million-dollar windfalls for years to come. Worse, they’re using our taxpayer money to line their own pockets while laying off workers . Since Jan. 1, 2008, the top 20...

  • Opinion:Caroline Kennedy Urges Workers to Complete Uncle Ted's Dream

    By AFL-CIO September 14, 2009

    Caroline Kennedy today challenged delegates to the AFL-CIO convention to fight for and achieve the causes to which her uncle, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, dedicated his life– health care reform and the Employee Free Choice Act . After thanking union members for their “tremendous...