Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report, National Edition
– Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

Weekly Audit: One Nation with No Jobs

The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center is on the ground helping victims of the devastating floods. Here’s one way you can help.

Those now in power in the Obama administration are the heirs of the former Rockefeller Republicans who were ousted from the Republican Party by the extreme religious zealots who now dominate it. The fiscally corporatist but socially liberal Rockefeller Republicans (now Obama Republicans) have, under the rubric of the DLC, hi-jacked the Democratic Party. Time to restore real Democrats and real democratic values to power: real jobs and health care for real people, not endless corporate profits.

Thousands of people marched on Wall Street April 29, in a major protest of financial sector greed and lending practices by big banks.

Commentary on recent attempts at introspection by high-profile liberals

Update from today’s conference call with Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO.

Poll results show that Massachusetts voters punished Democrats for neglecting the issue most vital to them: jobs. The message of Massachusetts should be clear: If Democrats want to save their own jobs in the mid-term elections this fall, they must create jobs now.

Class stratification continued under a Democratic adminstration and Congress in 2009. It’s time for Democrats to follow through and end the Great Class Stratification. Wall Street is doing fine and working people are suffering. 2010 must bring real change.

On Dec. 15, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will host a live online conversation on the nation’s jobs crisis–and you can take part.