Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. June 1, 2009. The President -- and the United Auto Workers -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.
Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. May 18, 2009. Why not retain workers who know how to manufacture complex machines and make use of exhausted auto factories, rather than letting them crumble?
Valeria Fernández, ColorLines. April 13, 2009. How one Detroit community group is saving homes and protecting human rights over the right of a corporation to make a profit.
Sally Kohn, Sanford M. Jacoby, AlterNet. March 31, 2009. Unlike U.S. companies, most large Japanese corporations balance short-term opportunities with long-term needs.
David Sirota, Blog for Our Future. March 1, 2009. Obama put corporate raider Steve Rattner in charge of overseeing the auto industry and his "plan" seems to be to crush the autoworkers.
Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 20, 2008. As if you needed any more proof that the Republican attempt to break the UAW a week ago Thursday was really just a political stunt.
Joseph Stiglitz, The Financial Times. December 13, 2008. If we bailout the Big 3 directly, much of the money will just support shareholders and bondholders.
Jane Slaughter, Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. December 8, 2008. Some conservatives are using inaccurate numbers to pin the blame for Detroit's pain on union workers.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. December 6, 2008. Bush says he is concerned that the automakers will not survive, but he is totally unwilling to take any action.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 5, 2008. These auto execs don't deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. November 24, 2008. Confronting the big lie about the autoworkers, swallowed whole by union-bashing pundits even in The New York Times.
Garland McLaurin, American News Project. November 17, 2008. The automobile lobby is back on Capitol Hill to secure $25 billion in loans. Will the money get wasted or put to good use?
Adam Doster, In These Times. April 30, 2008. For the Bush Administration, admitting that Iraq is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis disrupts the narrative that the war is winnable.