Feb
2011 4
2011 4
“Some estimates suggest that over $140 million in revenue will be lost by each NFL city in the event of a lockout.”
At the beginning of the 2010 NFL Season, the President of the Building Trades unions, representing over 2 millions men and women, sent this letter to the NFL, beseeching league owners to resolve the collective bargaining dispute prior to a lockout. With the deadline less than a month away, it is important to revisit this ...
Feb
2011 3
2011 3
VIDEO: Incredible New Volkswagen Ad
20 dollars says this one airs during the Super Bowl. Wow...
Feb
2011 3
2011 3
“Season ticket holders do not want to pay full price for two preseason home games. We also don’t want to have to take out a second mortgage to buy beer in the stadium.”
No more of this “half” negotiations bologna between the NFL and the NFLPA, says the New York Times: The possibility of an agreement being reached before or by the expiration of the current labor agreement on March 3 got a boost Monday when N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the ...
Feb
2011 2
2011 2
Couric and Gumbel Explain the Internet in 1994: “You write to it like mail.”
This hilarious clip had 400 views when it showed up in our Twitter feed last week. Now it has 1.6 million. Couric’s hair almost as amazing as the content of the video...
Feb
2011 2
2011 2
Interactive Chart About Income Equality
Very sleek and easy-to-use State of Working America interactive chart shows the growth of income inequality since 1917. Use it HERE. This issue must be addressed by Washington. Economic Policy Institute has been releasing some incredible resources of late, including this thorough report on the benefits of Community Workforce Agreements/Project...
Feb
2011 1
2011 1
#1u = One Union. Support All Workers by Using the #1u Hashtag in Your Labor Movement and Jobs Tweets
“The #1u hashtag is not only functional in bringing all union members and representatives to the information resources they need to share, it is the electronic vessel we command to rise above the tide of misinformation being jettisoned by the Far Right at the entire American Workforce.” NOTE: If you are reading this post and ...
Jan
2011 31
2011 31
Fox Does the TMZ Dance: Dallas Apparently Facing a “Stripper Shortage” Ahead of the Super Bowl
Give us a break, please! A “stripper shortage” is a good thing. Maybe this article should have been titled “Dallas Facing a Morality Boost” or “Things Are Looking Up For Dallas.” Instead, the report that “the 60 or so Dallas-area strip clubs will require approximately 10,000 strippers combined” tops...
Jan
2011 29
2011 29
U.S. Ranks 42nd in Equality, Behind Two Countries Mired in Bloody Civil Unrest
“According to the CIA World Fact Book, the U.S. is ranked as the 42nd most unequal country in the world, with a Gini Coefficient of 45,” wrote popular political blog, Naked Capitalism. The Gini Coefficient is commonly used as a measure of inequality of income or wealth. Invented by Corrado Gini, an Italian statistician, the ...
Jan
2011 28
2011 28
The State of the Web
This week’s State of the Union was big news and all, but Gizmodo is here with some hilarious cartoons about “The State of the Web.” They pounce on Facebook, Yahoo, Tumblr, Ping, HTML, Netflix and, below, Groupon. See them all ...
Jan
2011 27
2011 27
When Your Blackberry’s Broken and Your Apple Doesn’t Work, There’s Always…an Eggs Box.
10,000,000 YouTube views on this HILARIOUS clip from British TV show, “The One Ronnie.” And for good reason. Completely gets the goat of the technology revolution...
Jan
2011 27
2011 27
Speaker Boehner Says He “Made a Mistake” When He Suggested Raising the Retirement Age. And Then He Says “It Should Be on the Table.”
Unsure whether this is actually news or not. It’s seems like it’s news, so we’ll just go with it. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, in a CNN interview, back tracks on previous assertions that raising the retirement age is a way to help fix the deficit, and then suggests that since life expectancy is ...
Jan
2011 27
2011 27
VIDEO: A Bittersweet Moment for Ironworkers, The “Topping Off” Ceremony
The Maine State Building and Construction Trades Department posted a video of a “topping off” ceremony by the Ironworkers Local 7. This is the moment when the highest structural element of a building, the final beam, is put in place. You’ll notice in the video (below), a small pine tree at the top of the ...
