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The American handling of the coronavirus crisis has been a combination of the best and the worst of our nation. President Trump did an excellent job supporting the nation through this and leading us out of the severe economic and employment problems that the lockdown imposed on citizens in most of the US.

by NoahHappy Labor Day!Let's not forget that too many of our fellow citizens have lost their jobs this year due to the cavalier psychopathy or sociopathy of those in Washington who work for wages paid out of my taxes and yours, even if we no longer have a job.

Happy Do Nothing Day. By Edward Curtin edwardcurtin.com  In a country with Mount Rushmore that celebrates ruthless and frenetic westward expansion, it might be a bit naïve to suggest a Do Nothing Day. National holidays are great – so many…Read more →

by NoahHappy Labor Day!Everything on this list is a thorn in the side of today's Republican Party. Americans died for the things on this list during labor demonstrations and Americans died defending these rights and this way of life.

It was a VERY different GOP in 1956Yesterday, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, a show Señor Trumpanzee watches. Trumka pointed out that Trump has "used his office to actively hurt working people [and] to date, the things that the Trump and his anti-worker regime have "done to hurt workers outpace what he’s done to help workers...

MINNEAPOLIS — (Analysis) Three scenes from America’s class war:
In 1897, the president of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta hired 20 Negro women to work in the folding department of one of the mills. The other 1,400 workers, all white, promptly walked off the job in protest. According the historian Philip S. Foner in his book Organized Labor and the Black Worker, the company agreed to fire the black workers on one condition: the white workers would have to work overtime for free.

Paul Ryan's "To Do Away With" List Discovered!by NoahDWT hackers today announced that they have discovered a bucket list of items that House Speaker Paul Ryan wishes to do away with by the time he gathers up all of his ill-gotten gains and fleas to K-Street where he can grab even more.

Just days before Labor Day, a federal judge in Texas struck down a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would have made millions more employees eligible to receive overtime pay.
U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman, Texas federal court ruled Thursday that the Labor Department exceeded its authority by raising the salary threshold for those eligible for overtime pay from $23,660 to $47,476 a year.

-by Randy BryceHappy Labor Day!What does that mean to you?Living in Wisconsin it’s almost become kind of an annual celebration that “we’re still here.” It’s a gathering of survivors so to speak.In 2011 Scott Walker took over the office of governor and proceeded to “divide and conquer” the workers of Wisconsin.