Was it a bit of Guerrilla Theater by a newsroom employee with a keen sense of irony? Or just an unintentionally hilarious editing error? We’ll never know for sure, but when Kentucky news channel WYMT recently reported on the testimony of Jonathan Snare (a lawyer who represents corporate interests) with the words “Coalition Against Workplace Safety” under his name on the screen, I felt a peculiar sense of satisfaction at the rightness of it. Amen! The truth comes out at last! [Continue Reading...]

Imagine that West Virginia coal mine owner Don Blankenship got in his car one day and, in a big hurry to get to the bank, raced through town at such high speed that he lost control of the vehicle, plowed into a crowd of pedestrians, and killed 29 people. [Continue Reading...]

Progressives have had plenty of reasons to be discouraged lately-the elections results in Massachusetts, an expanding war in Afghanistan, a White House economic team that often seems more responsive to the needs of investment bankers than working families-but in one corner of the federal bureaucracy, real change is underway. [Continue Reading...]

All is well at the poultry plants run by the House of Raeford in the Carolinas, at least according to an investigation by the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission. A year and a half ago, the ,em>Charlotte Observer published an exposé on the company, uncovering a series of abuses in its treatment of injured workers and failure to report job injuries. In a recent follow-up story, the Observer reported on the results of the Commission’s audit of the company, which cleared House of Raeford of nearly all the allegations contained in the Observer’s in-depth investigation. [Continue Reading...]