Japanese Automobile Corporations Are Better? Toyota’s Race to the Bottom

by Barbara Briggs, Special to CorpWatch 
September 16th, 2008
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15182
 Beneath Toyota’s buffed shine lies a dark undercoat. The Toyota Corporation enjoys a fine reputation for well-built cars, environmental innovation, flexible production lines and effective management practices. But in its quest for ever-increasing efficiency, profitability and growth, the world’s largest auto manufacturer has sparked a race to the bottom that, [...]

Teamsters Stand up to NBA Superstar Elton Brand

Posted by the Teamsters
at http://www.teamster.org/press-release.aspx?id=26280
 November 22, 2008
(Philadelphia, PA) – Yesterday, Philadelphia Teamsters protested at the Philadelphia 76ers game against the L.A. Clippers, urging fans to tell Elton Brand to speak out about serious workers rights violations involved in Brand’s new shoe line, “EB1”.
The EB1 line of sneakers is a collaboration between the 76ers power forward [...]

Toward a Future Coalition: the Green Growth Alliance

By Van Jones
as appears in The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/jones
My background is in the struggles for racial justice and criminal justice reform. As such, I’ve always felt an affinity for Cinque, the hero of the slave-revolt movie Amistad. In that film, based on a true story, the righteous, enslaved Africans fight back and take over the slave ship.
The people [...]

The Corporations over the People? ACLUSA endorses Obama

The financial crisis that has fallen onto the heads of the American people in recent weeks is one that highlights one of the fundamental problems with the prevailing ideology of our nation since the beginning of the post-World War II period.
Soon after the war, conservatives began to work on an ideological reprogramming of the dominant [...]

The Beginning of the End of the Golden Parachute: A Case Study

PHRED DVORAK of the Wall Street Journal

Top executives at Double Eagle Petroleum Co. signed employment agreements this month that curtailed a time-honored executive perquisite: the executives don’t get severance in cases of “poor performance.”
Sigmund Balaban, a Double Eagle director, says the board wanted to make sure departing executives deserve the money they walk away with. [...]

Justice Department Accepts Guilty Plea in the Florida Slavery Case

From the US Department of Justice:
 
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Cesar Navarrete, Geovanni Navarrete, Villhina Navarrete, Ismael Michael Navarrete and Antonio Zuniga Vargas pleaded guilty to charges relating to a scheme to enslave Mexican and Guatemalan nationals and compel their labor as farmworkers, the Justice Department announced today.
 
 All five defendants pleaded guilty to harboring undocumented [...]