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Hands Off the UAW
John Nichols: If he keeps his promises to autoworkers, Obama has the chance to renew the ability of organzed labor to improve the lot of union and non-union workers in the twenty-first century.
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Nail That Double Standard to the Mast!
Alexander Cockburn: If America loses its domestic auto industry, 5 percent of the workforce may be on the street. Don't workers need a bailout, too?
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Obama's Latino Vote Mandate
Steve Cobble & Joe Velasquez: Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.
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From Birmingham to Voting for Barack
American News Project : Many citizens of Birmingham believe a new movement is taking place as a result of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
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No Debate: Hempstead Is Struggling
American News Project : As the media descends on Hempstead, NY, for the last presidential debate, regular citizens express frustration with crises at home and abroad.
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'Obama Waffles' Leave Bad Taste
American News Project : At the Family Research Council's Value Voters summit in Washington DC, vendors hawk a racist product meant to inspire Anti-Obama fervor.
Wal-Mart strongly opposes the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which supports unionization and seeks to establish higher penalties for violations of employee rights. The EFCA would likely be passed under a democratic leadership, so Wal-Mart educates its employees about its strong rejection of the bill, but doesn't tell them how to vote, according to David Tovar, Wal-Mart's spokesman. With the EFCA still dormant, the company's managers are told to call a special hotline prepared to swiftly diffuse any type of situation that may involve potential employee organization.
American News Project traveled to one of the mega-giants' stores in Virginia to ask shoppers what they thought about the Wall Street Journal report. Most agreed that no company should be telling its employees how to vote. If Wal-Mart convinced all its employees to vote Republican, McCain would be gaining over 500,000 ballots cast in his favor.
-Elizabeth Giegerich
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