Koch flacks tout phony poll on ‘right to work’
By BERRY CRAIG AFT Local 1360 Two union-busters are touting their mid-March poll that purports to prove most Kentuckians are pro-“right to work.” Of the poll’s 600 respondents, “39 percent didn’t even...
View ArticleBernie Sanders ‘Bernie 2016’
By BERRY CRAIG “Wouldn’t it be great if we had a labor party?” I’ve heard more than a few of my union brothers and sisters muse on that topic of late. They are peeved over President Obama’s support for...
View ArticleCentury Aluminum Locks Out Kentucky Steel Workers
By BERRY CRAIG Back ‘to Gilded Age union-busting’ Gilded Age steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick is long gone. But his old union-busting tactic in is play at the Century Aluminum plant in Hawesville. Frick...
View ArticleGeneral Motors To Expand Unionized Plant In KY
By BERRY CRAIG To hear some local politicians and business leaders tell it, a slew of companies has expressed interest in coming to Bowling Green and its environs since the county fiscal court approved...
View ArticleSaluting union volunteers in Paducah
By BERRY CRAIG Unions seldom make the news except during strikes, which the media commonly calls “labor disputes.” The implication, even if unintentional, is that strikes are the union’s fault. At the...
View ArticleMore Nader narcissism
By BERRY CRAIG Ralph Nader’s recent Huffington Post column reminded me of the old saying, “With friends like you, who needs enemies.” Nader’s narcissistic presidential bid in 2000 helped put George W....
View ArticleDown-home hate from a Kentucky Republican
By BERRY CRAIG Mike Pape is one Republican candidate who has evidently sworn off dog whistle politics. The congressional hopeful from Kentucky has deep-sixed the coded words and is pandering, flat-out,...
View Article‘Looking for love in all the wrong places’
By BERRY CRAIG AFT Local 1360 Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, bragged about his “tremendous support within unions.” “The workers love me,” he claimed. The Donald likely would be...
View ArticleTrumka: ‘What’s getting less attention is how Trump really feels about the...
By BERRY CRAIG AFT Local 1360 Donald Trump is again twisting the truth about Hillary Clinton and coal. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee claimed that his all-but-certain Democratic foe declared,...
View ArticleMule trader Trump
By BERRY CRAIG You’re at the bargaining table. The lead management negotiator slides over a piece of paper. “You’re going to love what I’m proposing,” the guy says. “Honest. It’s so good you don’t...
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