COMMENTARY | Don’t count on the courts to protect you If you think you can rely on the courts, rather than a union, to protect your workplace rights, you better think again. Simply put, the rights of workers are being quietly and steadily whittled down. I ...
23 Nov 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | The United States' massive military spending means less money for everything else Republicans and Democrats like to claim they are on opposite sides of important issues. Of course, depending on which way the wind blows, they sometimes ch ...
24 Aug 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Changing the balance of power to produce meaningful gains While those at the top of the income pyramid continue to celebrate economic trends, the great majority of working people continue to struggle to make ends meet. However, teacher victor ...
25 May 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | The controversial trade agreement is set for renegotiation. Could this be the year we finally put our foot down? The North American Free Trade Agreement is unpopular with many people who correctly blame it for encouraging capital flight, job ...
9 Feb 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Historically, it’s the United States – not North Korea – that has undermined diplomacy United States-North Korean relations remain tense, with the Trump administration threatening to launch a first-strike military attack to destroy North Kore ...
24 Nov 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Efforts to speed economic growth are not the solution A recent study published in Science Magazine, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940,” makes clear that the workings of the contemporary U.S. economy hav ...
29 Aug 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Improving our quality of life will require rebuilding union strength Fewer workers are in unions now than in 1983, the earliest year in the Bureau of Labor Statistics series on union membership. In 1983 there were 17.7 million, 20.1 percent o ...
9 Jun 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | There are many reasons to dismiss a declaration of crisis Be afraid, very afraid. There is good reason to fear that President Trump and the Republican Party are out to destroy our Social Security system. Social Security is an incredibly popu ...
17 Apr 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Oregon shortchanges schools, seniors, health care while its business tax burden remains lowest in the nation Oregon is failing to provide our students the quality education they deserve, our seniors the care they need, and health care to thos ...
11 Oct 2016 - Martin Hart-Lan...