President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Mark Vorpahl
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The Choice In Portland: Austerity Versus a People's Budget
If he gets his way, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales’s austerity axe will continue to swing at the city's most vulnerable citizens.
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Why Organized Labor Must Stand Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
Union leaders who support the XL Pipeline are acting against their membership's long-term interests in countering climate change, and putting themselves at odds with popular consciousness and scientific consensus.
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The Argument for Amnesty: An Immigration Policy That Works for All
What is needed is an immigration policy that will raise the living standards of all workers. Amnesty, which was the original demand of the immigrant rights movement, would do this.
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Is the "Democracy Initiative" Really What We Need?
The goals adopted by this progressive alliance cannot lead an effort to mobilize the majority of working people because they do not directly address the issues immediately impacting millions of workers.
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Troubles in the Northwest: Longshore Struggle Brews on Both Coasts, Part II
In a conflict involving nearly 3,000 workers at terminals that handle a quarter of the nation's grain exports, the Northwest Grain Handlers Association is demanding harsh concessions from Longshoremen.
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Longshore Struggle Brews on East Coast
It's been 35 years since the International Longshoremen's Association went out on strike, but membership is ready to pick up its picket signs.
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Defeating "Right to Work"
The passage in Michigan of the anti-worker legislation grotesquely misnamed "Right to Work" should be putting the entire nation on red alert.
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Austerity: The 1%'s Global Battle Cry
The world economy is not in crisis because of debt. It's because too many have too little to buy what has been created.
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Labor's Big Test in Michigan
Workers in Michigan may soon earn the right to organize and bargain collectively through labor unions.
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A Tale of Two Elections: Venezuela and the United States
Venezuela's re-election of Hugo Chavez may be a form of victory for the poor, but the U.S. presidential election is a fight over tactics among big business politicians about how to sell the corporate agenda to the public and continue the one-sided class war against workers.
