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Top Stories from Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace on AlterNet
September 5th, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/
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>From the editors:
The Department of Labor announced this week that the unemployment rate hit a
5-year high of 6.1 percent in August, as companies shed 84,000 jobs from their
payrolls. More than a half-million Americans joined the ranks of the unemployed
last month, bringing the total number to over nine million people.
Of course, there are major differences in the unemployment rate by race. The
rule of thumb is that African American unemployment usually runs at about
double the overall numbers. In August, (seasonally-adjusted) unemployment among
blacks spiked by almost a percentage point -- from 9.7 percent to 10.6 percent
? and is now almost 3 points higher than it was last August.
Those are the top-line numbers ? the ones most-commonly cited in news reports.
A better gauge of the employment situation, I think, can be found in the Bureau
of Labor Statistics' "alternative" measures of unemployment. The "U-6" series,
for example, counts all kinds of people struggling to find work ? "marginally
attached" workers, people who are willing and able to work a full-time job but
are forced to work part-time because of the sluggish economy and people who are
"discouraged" and have given up the job hunt because they haven't been able to
find work for an extended period of time. That number is now 10.7 percent ? an
increase of more than a quarter over last August's numbers.
-Joshua Holland
Editor, Corporate Accountability and Workplace
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UNIONS CREATE THEIR OWN MOVEON
By David Moberg, The Nation
Meet Working America: a 2.5 million online member
organization created by the AFL-CIO with a working-class
base and a strategy to win.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/97071/
THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO CORPORATE RULE
By Mark Engler, Nation Books
All over the world, alternative approaches to capitalist
greed are bubbling up from the grassroots.
http://www.alternet.org/audits/96806/
WHY MCCAIN AND THE GOP ARE SO AFRAID OF DISCUSSING THE ECONOMY
By Frances Moore Lappe, Huffington Post
Whether rich, poor or somewhere in between, Americans always
do better economically under Democrats.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/97645/
BOATLOADS OF TROUBLE: HOW WE ARE IMPORTING OUR WAY TO DESTRUCTION
By Stan Cox, AlterNet
As our consumer goods travel thousands of miles by boat,
train and truck, they're leaving a trail of soot and cancer
in their wake.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/97496/
THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR IN THE BUSH YEARS: A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
By Rep. George Miller, Huffington Post
Under Bush, the Labor department has been stacked against
workers' rights.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/97287/
THE FUTURE OF WORK: WHERE THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS HEADING
Global Labor Strategies
Conventional trade unionism is pretty much over. On Labor
Day, it's time to figure out what should come next.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/96979/
UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE IS NO SILVER BULLET
By Niko Karvounis, Health Beat
The key to smoothly running, affordable health care is
changing medical treatments and procedures.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/96855/
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AlterNet Blogs:
ECONOMIC ALERT: UNEMPLOYMENT JUMPS TO 6.1%
By Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone
All Politics is Local.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/97739/
STEELWORKERS PRESIDENT SLAMS PALIN: 'STOP USING YOUR HUSBAND'S MEMBERSHIP IN
THE USW AS A PROP'
By Ali, Think Progress
The head of the United Steelworkers union (USW) isn't
pleased.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/97595/
SOME MORE GREAT QUOTES FROM PHIL "NATION OF WHINERS" GRAMM
By dday, Hullabaloo
Please keep talking Phil.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/97313/
THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT: BUSTING THE UNION BUSTERS
By Staff, American Rights at Work
American Rights at Work launches an ad campaign to educate
the public on the critical issues facing the struggling
middle class.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/97267/
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