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Bailing out the bosses

September 22, 2008

One of the most interesting parts of the debate going on about the bailout is the Democrat's proposal to make the bailout include conditions on limiting executive pay packages.  Well, as you can imagine, that is not sitting well with the "corporate aristocracy" which as the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) estimates, already benefits from a $20 billion a year subsidy in the form of tax loopholes.  In this year's annual "Executive Excess" report, IPS says that S&P 500 CEOs' pay packages were about 344 times the pay Bag_of_money_bw

Free Trade Brought to You by the US Chamber of Commerce

September 12, 2008

The speakers at this rally grieved that they couldn’t have a reasonable
conversation with those opposed to FTAs because each side of the issue
has its own set of “facts.” I also find this contradiction of “facts”
troubling. Those in favor of FTAs point to the fact that, since NAFTA,
there has been a net creation of jobs in the US. Those opposed to NAFTA
however, point out that most of these jobs are of poorer quality than
the ones that were lost, consisting of low-paid positions like
cashiers, and janitors.

Hot Girls Make Great Clothes

September 8, 2008

If you operate in an industry littered with accusations and actual accounts of the women workers who make your products being exploited financially and sexually, why in the world would you make such ads?

I don’t have a clue where Ecko jeans are made, but I highly doubt that the skimpily clad women featured in these videos actually make the jeans. I’ve spent months talking with women garment workers around the world and I’m utterly insulted by these ads. In Bangladesh, Arifa, a single mother, works hard so she doesn’t have to ship another son off to Saudi Arabia to work. In Cambodia Nari and Ai support 6 and 7 family members a piece on their paychecks. In China Zhu Chun tries to earn enough so her son can go to college.

Attacking organizers at the RNC

September 5, 2008

Most of you have heard the clip from Governor Sarah Palin's speech where she said, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."  But Palin wasPalin2web
joined in the organizer-bashing by former New York City Mayer Rudy Giuliani who said, "On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy

Finally, a Democratic Platform that takes Trade Reform into Account

August 28, 2008

Since its founding, the ILRF has been at the forefront of
the process of using labor protections embedded in trade laws to fight for
workers around the globe. We’ve used the Generalized System of Preferences
(GSP) and other mechanisms to provide incentives for nations to enforce core labor
rights and standards.  With two parties
that have but labor rights at the bottom of the trade agenda, it has been an
uphill battle.  It looks like the
Democratic party is finally taking the issue seriously.

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