Harry Hanbury, American News Project AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. June 24, 2009. Despite the government's efforts to keep GM afloat, the company is hemorrhaging jobs.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. June 14, 2009. The Beltway media gives credence to, and amplifies, every partisan accusation, no matter how thin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. November 20, 2008. The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
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?
Eve Tahmincioglu, Huffington Post. November 6, 2007. The threat of offshoring and declining membership has left the big industrial unions more conciliatory than ever.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 2, 2007. The brief national strike against America's biggest automaker has a good bit to tell us about the gap that divides the awesomely affluent in the United States from everyone else.
Max Fraser, The Nation. September 26, 2007. The details of UAW's deal with GM haven't been made public, but reports suggest a troubling possibility for one of the few industries with high-paying manufacturing jobs ...
Melissa McEwan, AlterNet: PEEK. September 25, 2007. Melissa McEwan: "It's our duty. It's the only power we have," says Eric Lehtonen, 50, who works at the Lansing Grand River assembly plant.
Tim Higgins, Detroit Free Press. September 24, 2007. While strikers and sympathizers honked horns, workers streamed out of Michigan GM plants to join the line.
Nancy Scola, AlterNet. September 19, 2007. Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.