How a 1971 Memo and the US Chamber of Commerce Spent 50 Years Destroying the American Worker Part II of the Clean Slate 2028 Series On July 4th, 1976, the United States of America celebrated its Bicentennial. Two hundred years of independence. Tall ships sailed into New York Harbor. Church Read more
Donald Trump and the US Chamber of Commerce Are Dance Partners While 170 million American Workers Cannot afford the Cover Charge Part III of the Clean Slate 2028 Series In Part I of this series, we gave credit where credit was due. We examined the Trump cabinet’s three-pillar challenge to Read more
The US Chamber of Commerce’s slow bleed of American workers “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these Read more
What could you have done with $700,000? That’s not a hypothetical question. That’s what was or will be bled from you before a miserable retirement. In the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ back offices, they say workers’ share of the American pie is smaller than it’s been since World War II—just Read more
The U.S. Workers Alliance (@USWorkerActions) has developed an ambitious, multifaceted campaign to fundamentally reform the U.S. Congress. At its core is a proposal to raise congressional salaries dramatically—from the current $174,000 per year (frozen since 2009, with leadership roles slightly higher, such as $223,500 for the Speaker of the House Read more
By Randell S. Hynes Make America Healthy Again Needs the US Workers Alliance (And Vice Versa) You can’t Make America Healthy Again without making America Families economically secure again. The same corporate interests that filled our food with toxins also suppressed wages for 50 years. It’s the same playbook: privatize Read more
US Visa Fraud and Instability of the Program Threatens America’s Critical Infrastructure The Colorado Case Study In the State of Colorado, what’s stopping these catastrophic security breaches from happening? The Corporate-State has effectively turned over the keys to America’s critical infrastructure to a foreign force larger than the entire U.S. Read more
What If the Government Realized That Excluding American Workers From the Negotiating Table Would Destroy What They’re Trying to Protect? Let’s cut through the bullshit. The American government—along with its corporate partners—has spent decades systematically excluding workers from economic decision-making. They’ve convinced themselves this is necessary to “protect” American competitiveness, Read more
How Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Intel—With Their Outsourcing Allies and U.S. Government Enablers—Are Waging War on U.S. Workers In the shadow of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—a trillion-dollar giveaway to corporations—these five tech behemoths have exposed their true colors: anti-American Worker profiteers who prioritize shareholders, cheap Read more
Picture this: A software engineer sitting in his remote office in an Austin suburb, fingers hovering over a keyboard. He has root access to the State of Colorado’s entire cloud infrastructure—the systems that manage everything from state employee records to public safety databases. He’s been here for three years on Read more