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Business “crying wolf” on credit card reform and labor law reform

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Friends and Colleagues: My occasional coauthor Donald Cohen and I would like to solicitic your help. Perhaps you’ve noticed a regular theme in some of our recent articles — the tendency of business lobby groups to “cry wolf” whenever liberals…

Why liberals need labor

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Despite its paltry membership (12.1% of the workforce), the U.S. labor movement remains the nation’s most potent force for progressive change and the most effective vehicle for electing Democrats. As Kelly Candaele and I point out in our article in…

Mortgage Meltdown; Baseball Steroid Scandal; How Unions Help the Economy; Edwards; NCLB; What the Dems Should Do On Jan. 2008; Fun With Alan Greenspan

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Friends – Here is a hodgepodge of articles (only one by me) on different topics that might be of interest:

Tagged with: affordable housing, Barack Obama, health, labor, Los Angeles, school, unions
Posted in Housing Justice, Politics & Elections, Uncategorized

Happy MLK Day

Posted on January 18, 2006 by Peter Dreier — No Comments ↓

Many of you have seen the LA Times’ 4-day series last week criticizing the United Farm Workers. In response, I wrote this op-ed, published in the Sunday LA Times (yesterday), criticizing the paper’s general coverage of labor and workplace issues.…

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Business “crying wolf” on credit card reform and labor law reform

Why liberals need labor

Mortgage Meltdown; Baseball Steroid Scandal; How Unions Help the Economy; Edwards; NCLB; What the Dems Should Do On Jan. 2008; Fun With Alan Greenspan

Happy MLK Day