The settlement ends five-year probe into misuse of union monies at the UAW. An independent monitor will oversee the union for up to six years.
I think there’s been a chilling impact on certain kinds of research …
The government-promoted plans let employers completely off the hook and put the entire burden of retirement savings and investment management on workers. They put another nail in the coffin of traditional plans in which employers share the expense.
Apart from filling corporate coffers and the pocketbooks of the 1 percent, the $1.9 trillion cut has put the federal government in a financial straightjacket.
Is there a democratic road to socialism? And if so, what does it mean for socialists today?
Capitalism co-opts our best visions — through its soft hand, capital reforms its way out of crisis, putting forward more tolerable forms of exploitation.
Many in Mexico think the government and political parties are hampering aid efforts.
For the Left, winning local office is one thing — actually governing is another.
The presidency of Donald Trump has ushered in a fresh wave of withering attacks on public employees at the federal level. Just days after taking the oath of office, Trump imposed a federal hiring freeze. And a new bill moving through Congress would eviscerate civil-service protections, making it easier to fire career government employees without due process. The president's proposed fiscal year 2018 budget is so austere that it would, according to the Washington Post
Should we really leave law enforcement to police themselves? That’s the question.
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