Dave Johnson

  • Published The Jobs Numbers - A True Story (Blog entry)
    February 3, 2012 - 10:07am

    The news is just out, the economy added a healthy number of new jobs last month, even with government jobs still declining thanks to austeridiocy. The better news is that there is an accelerating trend.

  • Published China Cheating Costs 400K Auto Parts Jobs (Blog entry)
    February 2, 2012 - 2:21pm

    This week three new reports described even more continuing damage to our economy caused by China's trade cheating -- and our own lack of response. Even as the auto industry recovers and auto-assembly jobs are returning, the auto-parts industry and jobs are not.

  • Published FAA Bill Still Anti-Labor! Call Your Senators! (Blog entry)
    February 2, 2012 - 10:56am

    Not long ago, in A Win For Labor - FAA Bill Drops Anti-Union Language, I wrote that, "negotiators have dropped the anti-union language for votes to start a union. Republicans were insisting that no-shows be counted as "No" votes. Delta's check must have been mailed late."

  • Shared Social Security: The Elevator Pitch (Progressive Opinion)
    January 29, 2012 - 7:20pm
  • Published Democracy v. Plutocracy, Unions vs. Servitude (Blog entry)
    January 26, 2012 - 9:25pm

    Servitude: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life"

  • Published Anti-Union "Right-To-Work" Laws Really A Tax On Unions (Blog entry)
    January 26, 2012 - 12:21pm

    Indiana is about to pass what is called a "right-to-work" law. These laws prohibit union contracts from requiring workers to be in the union and paying dues to the union, while forcing the unions to provide full benefits to the non-unions members for free. The idea is to weaken and defund the union's (99%) ability to push back against the big corporations (1%).

  • Published President Puts American Manufacturing Front And Center In State Of The Union (Blog entry)
    January 25, 2012 - 2:59pm

    President Obama put American manufacturing literally at the front and center of his State of the Union speech. American manufacturing was at the front of the speech and at the center of a "blueprint" for bringing back jobs and strengthening our economy. By placing manufacturing front and center he has taken this conversation further than any President before him.

  • Published Hold Cheaters, Fraudsters and Exploiters Accountable To Get Our Economy Back (Blog entry)
    January 23, 2012 - 3:44pm

    The spiral-to-the-bottom and inequality we are suffering is not an inevitable result of globalization, it is what happens when we don't hold cheaters and exploiters accountable and stop them. This is not just about Wall Street, it is the story of what has happened to our wages and benefits, jobs, factories, companies, industries, economy and democracy in the last 30-or-so years.

  • Shared Thinking Differently About Apple and 21st Century Society (Progressive Opinion)
    January 22, 2012 - 8:56pm

    In fact, Apple does have an obligation to solve America’s problems. Everyone who lives in this country has that obligation. And corporations have that obligation too. If they don’t want to help make things better, then they shouldn’t exist.

  • Published A Win For Labor - FAA Bill Drops Anti-Union Language (Blog entry)
    January 20, 2012 - 5:24pm

    There is breaking news from Capitol Hill, negotiators have dropped the anti-union language for votes to start a union. Republicans were insisting that no-shows be counted as "No" votes. Delta's check must have been mailed late.