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On AlterNet: employee free choice act

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "employee free choice act"

Remembering Teddy

Remembering Teddy

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. August 26, 2009.
His media image larger than life, Sen. Ted Kennedy struck this blogger as an almost regular guy.

Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer

Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer

Mike Elk, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
Women had come and gone, dogs had died, but Yuengling had always been there for me - until now.

Corporations Now Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics, New Report on Unionbusting Finds

Corporations Now Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics, New Report on Unionbusting Finds

Art Levine, Huffington Post. May 20, 2009.
A definitive study of anti-union campaigns finds that corporations are punishing workers seeking to form a union with a wide range of tactics.

Demanding Justice for Murdered Immigrant Luis Ramirez Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Demanding Justice for Murdered Immigrant Luis Ramirez Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 19, 2009.
Join us in urging Pa. Gov. Rendell to speak out about Luis Ramirez's tragic slaying.

Fighting Rich Lobbyists to Save Health Care Reform Is AlterNet's Top Take-Action Campaign of the Week

Fighting Rich Lobbyists to Save Health Care Reform Is AlterNet's Top Take-Action Campaign of the Week

AlterNetMay 11, 2009.
Powerful medical lobbyists stand in the way of health care progress in the name of profits. We must put an end to it.

Saving Death Row Inmate Troy Davis's Life Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Saving Death Row Inmate Troy Davis's Life Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 5, 2009.
Troy Davis faces execution for murdering a police officer, despite that 7 out of 9 witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony.

Unions: Still Relevant? Or Relics?

Barbara O'Brien, AlterNet: PEEK. March 31, 2009.
Today only 8 percent of Americans belong to a union. Are unions still relevant? Or relics of a bygone age?

Americans Are Raring for a Fight Against Corporate Power

Americans Are Raring for a Fight Against Corporate Power

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. March 16, 2009.
3/4 of Americans want to see a huge worker protection bill pass through Congress, and the greedy corporations are running scared.

It Begins: Employee Free Choice Act Introduced on the Hill

It Begins: Employee Free Choice Act Introduced on the Hill

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 10, 2009.
Proponents expect the measure to pass the House with relative ease, but opponents have a lot of lies up their sleeves.

Making Reid Do It: The Best Way to Prevent Dem Defections and Pass EFCA

Making Reid Do It: The Best Way to Prevent Dem Defections and Pass EFCA

David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 3, 2009.
Make Harry Reid choose between getting every Democrat on board, or ending his political career.

Why Democrats Need a Blue Dog Proof Majority

Why Democrats Need a Blue Dog Proof Majority

Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 19, 2009.
The Blue Dogs are screwing with the Employee Free Choice Act.

CNN's Lou Dobbs Peddles Lies and Anti-Union Propaganda

CNN's Lou Dobbs Peddles Lies and Anti-Union Propaganda

Staff, FAIR AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 8, 2009.
CNN host spreads misinformation about the Employee Free Choice Act.

Revealed: Bailed-Out Execs Plotting Against EFCA

Revealed: Bailed-Out Execs Plotting Against EFCA

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. January 27, 2009.
These crooks "are asking us to bail them out and then using that money to stop workers from improving their lives."

Employee Free Choice: Winning the Battle by Knowing Where the Lines are Drawn

Employee Free Choice: Winning the Battle by Knowing Where the Lines are Drawn

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 22, 2009.
In being so ready to throw majority sign-up under the bus, they are seriously misjudging where the battle lines lie in this particular fight.

Ad Wars: 'Dr. Evil' vs. Unions Over Employee Free Choice Act

Ad Wars: 'Dr. Evil' vs. Unions Over Employee Free Choice Act

Art Levine, January 21, 2009.
Can supporters of the EFCA overcome the smears and intensive lobbying orchestrated by corporate flacks like "Dr. Evil," Richard Berman?

Bank of America: Bad for America

Bank of America: Bad for America

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 15, 2009.
Squandering $25 billion in bailout bucks.

Why It's So Harmful When FOX Echoes the GOP on Employee Free Choice

Why It's So Harmful When FOX Echoes the GOP on Employee Free Choice

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 5, 2009.
Reclaiming the frame on this legislative issue.

Rep. Hoyer Says Employee Free Choice Act Will Pass In 'Early Spring'

Rep. Hoyer Says Employee Free Choice Act Will Pass In 'Early Spring'

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 4, 2009.
People have been worried about how committed Democratic leaders are to passing the bill. Hoyer set everyone straight this morning.

WSJ Uses 'Reporting' to Print Free Political Advertising for Anti-Labor Group

WSJ Uses 'Reporting' to Print Free Political Advertising for Anti-Labor Group

Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 23, 2008.
Political agendas instead of news. Welcome to the Wall Street Journal.

Republicans' Opposition to Detroit Bailout Is Union-Busting of Another Kind

Republicans' Opposition to Detroit Bailout Is Union-Busting of Another Kind

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. December 17, 2008.
I still underestimate the peculiar genius conservative Republicans show in exploiting dire, even tragic, situations to wield a partisan cudgel.

McDonald's Labor Practices More Harmful Than Its Food

McDonald's Labor Practices More Harmful Than Its Food

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. December 10, 2008.
McDonald's has super-sized its anti-union ways.

Does Obama Still Support the Employee Free Choice Act?

Does Obama Still Support the Employee Free Choice Act?

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 3, 2008.
"An aide to Barack Obama reaffirmed the President-elect's support for the labor movement's chief legislative priority in a one-word statement."

Home Depot Founder to CEOs: You 'Should Be Shot'

Home Depot Founder to CEOs: You 'Should Be Shot'

Michael Whitney, SEIU AlterNet: Video. November 19, 2008.
More crazy hyperbole from greedy CEOs who oppose Employee Free Choice.

Make Sure Obama Makes Good on His Promise to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act

Make Sure Obama Makes Good on His Promise to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act

Staff, SEIU AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 10, 2008.
Help give the middle class a much-needed boost.

Wal-Mart Has Perfected the Art of Union-Busting

Wal-Mart Has Perfected the Art of Union-Busting

Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota. October 30, 2008.
'Wal-Mart is a case study of the abysmal workers' rights regime we have here in the United States.'