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.
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.
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.
Mark Brenner, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. November 19, 2008. With U.S. car makers billions of dollars in the red, jobs vanishing and factories closing, the industry's problems may be insurmountable.
Eve Tahmincioglu, Huffington Post. November 6, 2007. The threat of offshoring and declining membership has left the big industrial unions more conciliatory than ever.
Max Fraser, The Nation. October 22, 2007. Despite repeated efforts, the UAW has never been able to establish a foothold in foreign-owned factories, which are often strategically located in rural areas with a negligible union presence, antilabor state legislation and depressed local economies.
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.
