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November 21, 2015

Carhaulers Vote Down Awful Deal

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes

"The IBT Carhaul Division has instructed all carhaul locals to hold meetings to ask members why they rejected the concessionary first offer. These guys are so out of touch, they need to be told the obvious: Teamsters are tired of concessions and want to protect their jobs and make reasonable gains in this boom year of auto sales." Teamsters for a Democratic Union

November 21, 2015

Shouldn't Social Security Recipients Get A CEO-Sized Raise?

Dave Johnson Common Dreams

Seniors, disabled veterans and others will receive no COLA adjustment next year. This is because the method of measuring living costs – the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers – is not weighted toward seniors. For example, it counts the decrease in gasoline costs for commuters and not the big cost increases in the pharmaceuticals seniors need.

November 21, 2015

Four Takes on Bernie Sanders' Democratic Socialism Speech

Here are four different takes on the speech Bernie Sanders gave on Democratic Socialism. As Kshama Sawant says, "Such an audience for socialist ideas has been unprecedented in the U.S. in several generations."

November 20, 2015

Eden in Pilsen

Philip C. Kolin Finishing Line Press

At the turn of the 20th Century Czech immigrants flocked to the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen on the city's near west side attracted there by the offer of jobs. Mississippi-based poet Philip C. Kolin depicts their hopes and realities in a newly-published chapbook.

November 20, 2015

'Beyond Terrifying': Muslim Americans on Trump and Carson quotes

Ed Pilkington, Ryan Felton and Nicky Woolf The Guardian

Leaders fear worsening ‘climate of hostility’ as conservative candidates call for database to track Muslims and equate Syrian refugees to ‘rabid dogs’

November 20, 2015