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Public sector: ‘You’ve got a bulls-eye right here’

We’re in a situation where we have so many people who are disconnected from possibility that it is on the brink of social dynamite. Huge swaths of this country have lost everything that defines their culture.

Our own U.S. Capitol has played a seditious role in our economy. They have used their political power to rig the tax laws to shift the wealth disproportionately to the top, and they used that same power to break the back of organized labor in the private sector by the wholesale export of our industries.

Whiff of change in the air

Undeterred by a blizzard that crippled air traffic across the U.S. and Canada, virtually every registered Guild delegate managed to straggle into Orlando, Florida at the beginning of February for TNG-CWA’s last annual sector conference, following last year’s approval of a biennial conference schedule.

Letters to the Editor

In "Dangerous World", Unions Fight "Assault" on Middle Class Families, Elizabeth Warren Says

Elizabeth Warren, special adviser to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and fervent supporter of America’s middle class, says that blaming the public-sector for ballooning state deficits and lack of jobs simply is not supported by the facts. Unions are one of the few institutions trying to strengthen America’s middle class by fighting for fair wages, she says, adding: “The middle class has been under assault now, really, for a generation.”

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

The executive committee of the News Media Guild endorses John Hill for TNG’s Region 1 vice president. John doesn’t merely serve on committees while expecting others to do the heavy lifting. He has ideas, builds consensus and develops a team to carry out the plan.

Wisconsin is making the battle lines clear in America's hidden class war

Last weekend's demonstrations do not necessarily reflect a new sense of class consciousness, but they do suggest the potential for it. The idea of a class system where only a handful can ever be truly wealthy intrudes awkwardly on a culture rooted in notions of self-advancement, personal reinvention and rugged individualism, even if it is closer to reality. Old habits die hard. The weekend protests, after all, were organized under the banner "Save the American Dream."

Hacking Away at News Corp.

Phone scandal could cost Murdoch millions

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is suffering torture by a thousand cuts in Britain where a phone-hacking scandal threatens his Sunday tabloid, News of the World, with an avalanche of litigation for damages as well as possible criminal prosecutions of senior journalists and executives in the company. Many reports now put the number of phone-hacking victims as high as 4,300, and there is speculation that News Corp.’s exposure would be as high as $150 million.

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