On AlterNet: ford

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Imagine a World Where People Love Their Jobs

Rochelle Gurstein, Guernica . April 18, 2010.

With 15 million men and women unemployed, the first step to fixing the job crisis is re-imagining what Americans should be working on in the first place.

Harold Ford Is a Tea-Bagger

Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog. January 22, 2010.

He sounds like a male version of Michelle Bachmann.

NY Senate: Harold Ford Is All About the Issues...He Just Doesn't Want to Talk About Them

BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: Politics. January 19, 2010.

The pedicure-lovin', helicopter ridin' Democratic challenger for Kristen Gillibrand's Senate seat couldn't get any more ridiculous.

What Can the Morass of the 1970s Tell Us About the Current Economic Crisis?

Alejandro Reuss, Dollars and Sense. November 10, 2009.

Whether the gears of a capitalist economy mesh or not depends on the institutional framework in which capitalist companies operate.

Michael Moore: 10 Steps Obama Should Take for the Future of GM

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.

Autoworkers Forced to Take Concessions in Industry Bailout

Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. December 20, 2008.

Yet another example of the right-wing agenda to do away with labor rights.

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.

A Bad Auto Bailout Is Cheaper Than Any Bank Bailout

Nomi Prins, AlterNet. December 9, 2008.

Whether or not bailing out the Big Three makes financial sense (which it doesn't), it's still a fraction of the cost of bailing out Wall Street.

Slashing Wages Will Hurt Workers, But It Won't Save the Big Three

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.

Fat-Cat Automakers Beg for Taxpayer Money While Flying in Private Jets

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2008.

If they had flown first-class it would have been embarrassing. But company-owned private jets?

How Closing Manufacturing Plants Can Be Transformed into Community-Saving Business Ventures

Angela Walker, AlterNet. November 12, 2008.

Ford's oldest plant in operation, which is set to close in 2011 will be the epitome of the changes to come.

Autoworkers Gave up Much Without a Fight

Eve Tahmincioglu, Huffington Post. November 6, 2007.

The threat of offshoring and declining membership has left the big industrial unions more conciliatory than ever.

Harold Ford, DLC Are Extremists, Not Centrists

Jane Hamsher, AlterNet: PEEK. August 15, 2007.

Jane Hamsher: I don't think Harold Ford was, is or ever will be "reaching out to us."

Ford Attacks Bush (Cheney, Rummy) from Grave

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2006.

'I don't think I would have gone to war'

Gerald Ford: The Conflicted President on Civil Rights

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. December 28, 2006.

Ford scored points by appointing the first black Secretary of Transportation, but then stumbled on civil rights during the rest of his time in office.

A Ford/Nixon Conspiracy? [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. December 28, 2006.

Ford may have promised to pardon Nixon in order to become president...