Who’s Fixing Your Plane? Do You Know? Published 13 Jun, 2011 In the airline industry, we like to fix our problems on the ground. Tow trucks can’t help at 30,000 feet. Mechanics and other ground workers employed at U.S. airlines take great pride in making the U.S. air transportation system the safest and most reliable…
Published 11 Jul, 2011 A question for GOP governors: How’s that “bash-the-workers” thing working out for you? Not so well, according to public opinion polls. Republican governors leading the charge to cut health care, gut pensions, and cancel bargaining rights for public employees have seen their approval ratings tank. Rick Scott, who cut $8 billion…
Published 11 Sep, 2011 An unlikely trio, the president of the AFL-CIO, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and the President of the United States of America last month stood in the White House Rose Garden and called for the reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act. President Obama again drew the link between transportation…
Published 14 Oct, 2011 It all started with an email. Back in July, the staff of AdBusters, a small Vancouver-based magazine, proposed an idea: A demonstration on Wall Street to show disgust with economic inequality, lack of action on jobs and growing corporate control over the levers of our democracy. Talk about an idea whose…