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Mike Elk: Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run By Scab Workers

September 7, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run By  Scab Workers

Union workers have been locked out at the uranium enrichment facility in Metropolis, Illinois for two months now after contract negotiations broke down over Honeywell's...
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Mike Elk: Nuclear Regulators Close Sections of WH Debt Commissioners’ Uranium Facility Over Safety Violations

September 2, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Nuclear Regulators Close Sections of WH Debt Commissioners’ Uranium Facility Over Safety Violations

When I originally wrote about Honeywell CEO David Cote threatening the safety of a small town by bringing in under-trained "scabs" (replacement workers )to run...
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Mike Elk: Netroots-Labor Solidarity: A Work in Progress

July 22, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Netroots-Labor Solidarity: A Work in Progress

Netroots Nation shuns hotel over worker treatment, as bloggers and labor strenghen alliance "So all you skinny guys in this room needs to find a...
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Mike Elk: On the Death of My Grandfather, Solidarity, and Hope

June 16, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: On the Death of My Grandfather, Solidarity, and Hope

Tuesday evening, my grandfather George Elk died at 92. My grandfather was born in 1918 the Lower East side of New York - the son...
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Mike Elk: Democrats Won in Murtha’s District on Trade Reform

May 19, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Democrats Won in Murtha’s District on Trade Reform

The lesson should be clear: Trade reform is a hugely popular issue on both the left and right. Trade is an issue that candidates can win on in 2010.
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Mike Elk: If Republicans Won’t Let Democrats Go Small on Jobs, Let’s Go Big!

April 15, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: If Republicans Won’t Let Democrats Go Small on Jobs,  Let’s Go Big!

This week, Democrats find themselves trying for the third time to pass a 30 day extension to unemployment benefits. And each time they try to...
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Mike Elk: Happy 75th, WPA: Its Genius Holds Lessons For Today’s Jobs Crisis

April 8, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Happy 75th, WPA: Its Genius Holds Lessons For Today’s Jobs Crisis

This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Work Progress Administration, the New Deal centerpiece that helped end the Great Depression by directly creating 3.3...
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Mike Elk: Obama’s Biggest Giveaway to Wall Street — Chinese Currency

April 5, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Obama’s Biggest Giveaway to Wall Street — Chinese Currency

Jim O'Neil, the chief economist of Goldman Sachs penned an op-ed in the Financial Times last week claiming that China wasn't manipulating their currency. How can this be possible?
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Mike Elk: The Bipartisan Solution that Creates 2 Million Jobs and Costs Nothing

March 17, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: The Bipartisan Solution that Creates 2 Million Jobs and Costs Nothing

The crisis with China is accelerating quickly, and is so severe that economist from all over the political spectrum are calling for the U.S. to take drastic action against China currency manipulation.
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Mike Elk: Union Buster J. Justin Wilson Calls Me Outside, but Proves My Point About EFCA

March 9, 2010
By Mike Elk
Mike Elk: Union Buster J. Justin Wilson Calls Me Outside, but Proves My Point About EFCA

J. Justin Wilson is the corporate version of that creepy hit man from No Country for Old Men. Oh he'll get you. When I told...
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