Jezebel: Unions

The Real Help

Irin Carmon — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:40:42 EDT

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Whatever you think about The Help, at least it's sparked a larger conversation about domestic workers' lives — and maybe even their rights. More »

Goodbye, Mancession. Hello, He-Covery.

Irin Carmon — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:30:18 EDT

Today's jobs report for June managed to stun economists with its overall shittiness. But separate numbers suggest that what recovery we have made disproportionately benefits men. More »

Is Target Losing Its Cachet?

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:05:00 EDT

The president and C.E.O. of Target, Gregg Steinhafel, fielded question after question about his company's $150,000 donation to an extremist right-wing group at Target's annual shareholder meeting yesterday. Several of Target's biggest investors, including some large pension funds, protested outside the meeting. Women's Wear Daily reports that Steinhafel "sound[ed] embattled and annoyed" by the questioning. "I think we've sufficiently addressed that topic," Steinhafel replied to an investor who asked how Target could have "such an enormous blind spot" as to not research the extremist anti-gay group, Minnesota Forward. "We listened, we evolved, we have the right processes," continued Steinhafel. "Does anybody have a question related to our business that's not related to political giving? I'd love to hear a question related to something else." [WWD] More »

Fear Factor: Wisconsin

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:16:00 EST

Please Feed The Badgers

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:00:28 EST

The Wisconsin State Capitol is still flooded with protesters demanding Governor Walker and State Senate Republicans reconsider measures that would remove almost all bargaining rights from public employees' unions. Tea Partiers who bussed in yesterday are still trying to antagonize them, and various news trucks are trying to navigate the State Street crowds like big, inept tanks. More »

American Apparel Stock Plummets To New Historic Lows

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:36:00 EDT

American Apparel's stock is tumbling this morning, following news that the company's dodgy accounting has caught the eye of the U.S. Attorney's office. It's currently trading at 0.83. [AMEX:APP]
Dov says: "The capital structure issues will work themselves out." [WWD]

Old Dog, New Tricks

Anna Holmes — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:10:00 EDT

[Lyon, October 7. Image via Getty]

Is Clinton In, Out, Up, Down, Wrong Or Right?

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST

It's a week that belongs to the chattering class and, apparently, Katy Perry and whatever music and puppy cams can get The Daily Beast's Ana Marie Cox through another day of speculation about Hillary Clinton's potential nomination for (and/or acceptance of) Secretary of State. That, plus what David Frum's writing reminds us of, and what we would really like to see happen in the first 100 days of the Obama Administration, after the jump. More »

She's Spent Sixteen Years On Your Trail…

Moe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Hillary suffered a coughing fit in South Dakota today and might give up altogether tomorrow. I have been suffering coughing fits all weekend and I haven't even managed to give up smoking, so I'm not placing any bets, but apparently there's a deal in the works for the Obama campaign to Bernanke her Bear Stearns. [Huff Po]
Speaking! Krugman defends Bernanke on the grounds that there are no unions in America sending inflation spiraling of control with their wage demands like there were in the seventies. But hello Paul, you know what the Chinese were making in the seventies? [NYT]
Also, I bet Americans had slightly less than a trillion dollars in credit card debt in the seventies. [WSJ]
Stuff we did have in the seventies besides unions: regulations and trade barriers. Without those things to eradicate economic growth may be so hard to achieve that Barack Obama can call himself the "growth candidate" with his proposals to focus on preschool. [Wash Post]