One of the brightest spots of the Obama Administration has been Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Under the Bush Administration, the Department of Labor was used to carry out the agenda of big business. Solis has done a complete 180 despite efforts of Republicans to block some of her key nominees such as Lorelei Boylan [...]
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- About Me:
- A third-generation union organizer, Mike Elk worked previously for the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE). Currently, he works at the Campaign for America's Future in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he has worked as a staffer on the Obama-Biden Campaign and conducted research on worker owned cooperatives at the Instituto Marques de Salamanca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.. When Mike is not reading twenty blogs at a time, he enjoys jazz, golden retrievers, and playing horseshoes.
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- About Me:
- A third-generation union organizer, Mike Elk worked previously for the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE). Currently, he works at the Campaign for America's Future in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he has worked as a staffer on the Obama-Biden Campaign and conducted research on worker owned cooperatives at the Instituto Marques de Salamanca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.. When Mike is not reading twenty blogs at a time, he enjoys jazz, golden retrievers, and playing horseshoes.
Solis Still Hampered in Her Efforts to Reform Department of Labor |
| By: MikeElk Wednesday March 10, 2010 11:47 am |
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Union Buster J. Justin Wilson Calls Me Outside, but Proves My Point About EFCA |
| By: MikeElk Tuesday March 9, 2010 12:13 pm |
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 a fellow Campaign for America’s Future staffer I was going to take on J. Justin Wilson, he immediately hide under his desk and called his children to tell them he [...]
If EFCA is DOA, Why is the Chamber Still Lobbying Against It? |
| By: MikeElk Friday March 5, 2010 2:17 pm |
According to an article in the Examiner the other day; Senator Michael Bennet was shocked when a pair of Chamber of Commerce representatives came to lobby him against the Employee Free Choice Act. Bennet asked the lobbyists why they were visiting him for a bill that won’t even be coming to the floor for a vote.
For months now in Washington, it has been known that the Employee Free Choice Act won’t ever see a vote that the bill is going nowhere fast. However, this hasn’t stopped the Chamber of Commerce to continue flooding Capitol Hill with lobbyists against a dead bill
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