united we stand

TEAM-WORK

What part of Higher CEO salaries causing Bank Bailouts Don’t you Understand?

Right Livelihood

red white and blue collar

China has Tariffs to Protect their Jobs we outsource Jobs to China.
China buys our National Debt because they have so much cash
The GOP thinks there is No Connection!

I kind of like Grindstone (as in ‘nose to the’).

The Jungle works.

job-blog

Elbow Grease

Over Time

Trickle Up!

Sweat Equity

Labor Force

Backbone

Spinal Tap /s

Workingman’s Dues

The Labor_atory. A crucible for progressive ideas.

Yeah, I was thinking of a riff off Grindstone – The Grindstone and The Wheel

Thomas Friedman is Wrong!

Pulling Your Weight
Fruits of Labor

What’s with all this change on FDL?

take this job and love it! /s

In-source

working life

I thought someone else was covering Labor. Tula?
(Sorry, it’s not personal. Folks like some consistancy sometimes.)
Welcome, anyway. And, good luck. Lotsa changes here. Ya got yer big boy underwear on?
I don’t think the title matters as much as the contents. But, that’s just me. Call it anything you want. Including How Michael Sees It.

me likey…i think it should be energetic and positive

Even beautiful liberals are fickel sometimes?

” If you want to live like a Republican vote Democratic ”

Harry Truman

The Salt Mine?
This is amazing growth for FDL.
FunnyWheelieDiva

Or, bend over and take it.

Let Pete Seeger name it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8

Solidarity

Break Time

Show Me The Money

Finest Work Blog

we’d never hear the end of it from Barbara ‘Bright-Sided‘ Ehrenreich!

How about Unionited

Is there some purpose for being fickle?

LOL

Trickle Down Economic Theory means Piss on the Workers!

Off With Their heads! Lets get rid of the inbred Elite Gault Noblity!

Social Darwinisn should apply to Everyone

l’Internationale /s

Show me the blog, first.
Seriously, what does the author have to say?
Kinda hard for us to know what to call Your Thread, isn’t it?

Heavy Lifting
Labor Works
Union Made
The Union Shop
Free Choice

There are a lot of working folks who are not a part of a union. THink of that?

They Started the Class War we will finish it!

Not that I know of. Seems more responsive to me.
Something’s going on and I don’t know what it is, do you, Mrs. Jones?
Sorry, that’s rock. Tee hee.

F*ck Ayn Rand blog.

What??? Does that mean.

God point I’m just throwing out guesses here! Is this blog going to say redistributing say 5% or more of the nation’s wealth from the top 10% to the rest of us over 5 years is a good thing?
Should we just advocate an official government takeover of the banks? GM etc.
Should Government create high paying jobs and how many? Should we focus on getting Wallmart workers a Union or a pay raise first?
What are the goals?
I

I like it Seconded!

Now, you’re thinging.
Ha. Seriously, Why throw it to us? I want to know what the prize is if I win. That’s what I want to know.
How about that?

No short answer.. guess it requires reading up on Ayn (if you have not read her books like 35 years ago)… and Alan Greenspan’s love of her libertarian ways.

WorkForce

I am in fact. And, No, you.
Thanks, btw. Feel all good now.

workinprogress

Solidarność

an honest day’s work

Love Of Labor.

Or, Love’s Labors Won.

I’d like to know what are we going to focus on and what is the plan to get them done or at least what are our jobs in the plan.

WorkForce
This really grabs me.

Metro, Boulot, Dodo

For an Honest day’s pay. and yes that includes bank executives!

I still want to know what I win. Ha! It’s been a long, hard week. Before I get all smart and clever, what’s in it for me? See what I’ve learned from our nation?

To go back to the roots in USA?

I’d go with:

Joe Hill’s Dream Lives

If not that, go back and use something or someone’s catch phrase from somewhere between the 1880′s thru the early 40′s that had to do with the growing worker’s movement, and the lives they lost, moving it forward.

Be it in steel factories, or in the coal mines of VA’s, Ky.

They paid the hard price, many of them.

I’d honor them, first, and foremost.

And I’d make a point in your efforts to educate us masses about the labor movement from 1880′s to now, as part of your blog, if ya don’t mind me suggesting.

There’s a hell of a lot of history even us boomers never heard of, a HELL of a lot of it.

And if ya can, factor in some U. Utah Phillips and HIS history and the history of the musicians who stood side by side, with the railroad bums, the workers, and many more for our workers and civil rights.

Welcome aboard, yet another GREAT piece in this puzzle Mz. Hamsher is crafting.

If I didn’t know any better, given where she’s come to as of today, I’d think she IS crafting a third party movement .

Hope I don’t blow the surprise. *G*

haymarket

Remember When
Remember an America where your Wife had the choice of whether or not to work?
Remember an America where Doctor’s bills were not the biggest reason for Bankruptcy and Home Foreclosure?
Remember when people graduating college did not mean graduating with thousands of Dollars worth of Debt?

Larue…I was just talking to my guy about the third party opportunity here this am.
Syncronicity?

I don’t think you win anything.

Workin’ For a Living

Do You want fries with That?

Solidarity came to my mind immediately on seeing the thread title (name FDL’s newest blog about Labor, Workers, Unions).

Gen X and older recall Solidarity in Poland helping to open and democratize the old communist bloc. The name has powerful history.

That would choke the right wing, methinks.

*G*

Growth, with change.

It’s good.

See cartoon movie with catch phrase.

Class War

Workers of the World

Workers Camp

All Work & No Play

TimeCard

Distressed Labor

ReOrganize

Better Together

WorkBeat

WorkBlog

OrgBlog

germinal

couldn’t resist!

And, welcome Michael! Very excited about this newest FDL blog-venue.

The Line

The Cog

Utah Phillips

Yup

You’re Body is your Ballot

There is Power in the Union

Demi, does that diminish those workers struggles, or their pains, or their short comings in dealing with a suppressed work force governed and ruled and lorded by corporate masters?

Their reduced pay, offshored jobs, loss of jobs, reduced benefits, increased hours, pressure from their bosses especially WOMEN to not take time off for kids and family or women’s issues LIKE HAVING KIDS?

I’m just sayin.

All workers face the same, no matter how good they think they got it.

Darn! I coulda used a prize right now.
But, it’s okay. I’m used to that.

How about the ObamaHatesYouandYourBrattySmellyChildren Blog? You’d have an instant audience from here and some other “Liberal” blogs.

I checked already, and the domain is open, so go for it!

One of Mr. Zimmerman’s finest.

*G*

Of course not. I can sing Joe Hill. But, I won’t bore you.

Just good minds liking good minded progressive progress, methinks.

*G*

Oh, that IS a third party!!! ;-)

I vote for Working

Pick & Shovel

Solidarity. It’s kind of our Rock of Ages. We get nowhere without it.

I love challenges and opportunities. Grow and change.

Yeah, baby John and I’d toss in some Studs Terkel, Woody Guthrie.

And a few hundred others BEFORE them, in the 90′s thru the 20′s, I’ve read about and can’t recall.

The history of the workers, unionized or not, is deep, poignant, and fraught with evils.

Just ask the Irish, Chinese who built the railroads.

It was all driven by corporate overlords of THEIR time.

Workers, always screwed sooner than later for one reason or another, given a ten year working period.

Thanks for your reply, John.

That brings back memories…bad ones Seconded!

Bore me? What?

We’re having a conversation, sprinkled with some opinion, and rife with the vibrancy of our lives.

Bore me?

I think not. *G*

Or die.

See dinosaurs and republicans in wiki.

*G*

Hi Michael-

Congratulations!

How bout Working Stiff

Uh what do you want in a name something Cool!, that describes, something that makes people take sides and or draws them in to the cause, something like

punaise October 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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Do You want fries with That?

That scares the crap out of me

or the words Second Job the thought of going back to either or both those things again I think will scare lots of 40 and younger voters into thinking we need Unions.

I meant with my singing…..
Lovely conversation with a great thinking mind.
OOoooooh. I just thought of a name for the blog.
Wished I Woulda Married someone Rich, Oh well, then….

In honor of another musician

Bragging Rights!

Teddy – how about All Work and No Pay? :)

Labor Lake

BLUW

Blog
Labor
Union
Workers

The Lunch Pail

I like Labor Force.

Labor of Love.

FDLabor

FDL Works

A More Perfect Union

Union Works

How about “Together we stand” or “Side by Side”

I’m still going with I wish I woulda married someone rich.

How about “The Salt Mine” …?

TRICKLEDOWNBLUES

“Driving the Last Spike” (with a nod to Genesis’ ‘We Can’t Dance’)

Good for you. Thank you.

I like what you typed, but didn’t mean as a name for the blog … as a name for the blog: “Have At It”.
Or perhaps only “Have At.”
In both, the sense of being forceful, attacking aggressively.

Have At It: Worker Rights
Have At It: Labor Blog
Worker Weblog

If you felt like being mildly playful or possibly absurd, you could call it:

Working Utopia.

I kind of like it, but realize a 20th Century dystopian connotation might be there to be manipulated by those that are against workers.

One other thought for a name, also from what you wrote:

Have A Voice: Labor Blog
or
Workers Voice: Labor Blog

Best wishes for you and the new endeavor.

K

This is great news that FDL will have a regular blog on labor, workers, and unions. Good luck to you.

I have sometimes made fun of Jane and other pups for not knowing much about unions. I promise to lay off that kind of shit in the future and to offer only constructive comments- at least until you have had a chance to get on your feet with this new project.

My first constructive suggestion to you is that in choosing the title of your new blog that you lay off the references to the historical battles of unions in this country. Very few people will understand such references, and it turns off most of the younger readers (I have a 17-year-old son, so I know from experience).

Again, Good Luck!

FDL Solidarity

This is great news Michael.

That works.

Here is my choice for a title for the new blog:
THE LABORIUM

How about giving it some punch?

Workers war on wages
Workers war on equality
Workers war on power
Workers war on poverty

Workers Rock

How many jobs does it take to pay your bills?

Battle of the Paychecks

Changing The Face Of America
One Worker at a Time

I really really like the name “The Jungle,” for obvious reasons, since we are regressing to those conditions. Looking forward to this endeavor very much.

No War But Class War

(h/t SouthernDragon)

Bargin or Beg

The Working Class

The Labor Party

Busted Chains

Thanks Michael! How about:

The Good Fight
News You Can Use
Main Street
Blue News
Honest Day’s News
Binding Arbitration
Jimmy Hoffa Where Are You?
Jimmy Would Be Proud
Woody and Caesar Would Be Proud

Rank and File
Nine to 5
Labor Sabre
Time Clock
Overtime
E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one)

Sixteen Tons (or 16 Tons, as you like)

I was thinking The Picket Line.

The Labor Jungle

I’ve STILL not seen any offerings or respect for the history of labor struggles, lives lost and the struggles.

I’m real disappointed in Pups, on this one.

Real disappointed.

I’ve seen NO respect for labor, struggles, lives lost.

History of it all.

None.

I’m disappointed.

joe hill’s blog

Up Against The Wall

working class heroes

WORK is not a 4 Letter Word

Hi Michael, here are some ideas:

Blue Collar;
FireDog Union;
Union Station;
Joe Hill (it makes a good place-name too).

Good Luck

Michael,
I have published a labor/Union/left wing blog for over two years and I have found if you focus too much on Union you leave out the vast majority of people who are not in a Union.

When Union is in the name you are limiting your scope, as I did, and you are covering all labor. I am excited to see someone new defending workers.
Narsbars
Http://www.unionmaine.blogspot.com

Working the System

Dead Parrot?

Socialists R Us

Talking Union. because that’s what the blog is about, and in honor of a lovely talking blues written by Seeger, Lampell and Hays.

The Negotiating Table
A Living Wage
Bread & Roses

My suggestions:

— The First Price

— Wealth of the World

Because of this quote;

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. — Adam Smith

Perhaps we should remember what the Unions achieved for the american worker:
Forty hour workweek
Vacation time
Health coverage
Livable wages

Remembering that they built the great middle class, just maybe;
Six days a week
No christmas vacation
Bah humbug
Twelve hour days
Overtime????? WTF
Election Day!!!! So What.

Talking Union is already the name of a very interesting blog produced by the Democratic Socialists. It’s pretty good, you should check it out.

Another good one is Working In These Times, produced by the folks who publish the newspaper In These Times. It’s fairly new and some of the material is written by experienced professional journalists.

The Salt Mine?

The word “salary” is derived from it – salt once denoted one’s importance.

Example: at a table = “above the salt” for the more important guests and “below the salt” -not so much.

You mean you have never read Ayn Rand’s rantings about workers being the bane of the existence of the wealthy?

Blood, Sweat and Tears

I’m partial to WorkBlog, Working, or WorkLife. I also like Negotiate This!

Solidarity is the obvious choice. As for the others:

Working Life is already a labor blog (look it up).

Anything whatever with socialist/communist connotations is iffy if you want “working stiffs” (hate that name), especially union members, to read it. If you’re going after students, rock on but I won’t waste my time on it.

The Salt Mine is interesting, BUT… “salt” is also a trick played by somebody who wants to sell something that’s worthless by faking something that makes it look like it isn’t. 2-edged sword there.

Blue Anything is an internet cue that the site is pro-Democrat. Given the way the party is going, I wouldn’t think you’d want to stress the possibility that you’re a Front for the anti-worker Blue Dogs currently running the party.

I ran a labor blog for 5 years called Dispatch from the Trenches, one of the very first back in ’04, and I agree vehemently with narsbars: you limit your scope by leaving out the vast majority of workers who don’t belong to a union. They need to understand their role and their options before they can or will digest union talk. Sorry but that’s reality.

That’s why Solidarity is the obvious and probably best choice: it resonates union but all it really means is that workers are all in this thing together, which is the message we need to hear. Over and over and over.

Always glad to see someone new, especially at a high-profile site like FDL.

Welcome to the party, pal.

Spirit of Solidarity

You’re wasting your time trying to decide between half measures and trigger-like compromises. Put all the cards on the table and call it No Gods No Masters.

Work Break
LABORatory
You Can’t Scare Me

I am an artist and have thought a lot about working/making work with hands, labor.

Some years ago, I did a body of work for an exhibition I called “A Show of Hands.” Themes of the show were democracy and labor. While researching the show, I learned that gloves were once only for aristocracy, they were so painstaking to make by hand. Thus very expensive.

Now one finds gloves littering the pavement. Workers are the main people wearing gloves now, and they are left on bumpers and rooftops of trucks, I guess, this is how they end up as “roadkill” on the streets.

Whether working at the computer (as so many workers do today) or doing labor, workers are “hands on.” As a name, it would imply having control as well as keep the idea that hands are the source of our work. Or at least of the work that has been left un-unionized or otherwise dis-organized.

I have been pondering this since I read the post last night.

The (Joe) Hill.

“A Show of Hands.”
I like that one very much.

The First Price, is a really good suggestion. If they don’t use it, you should start your own blog with it.

Think about it, Screwged…………