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: Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run By Scab Workers
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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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