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Apple/Foxconn Promises -- We'll See

By Dave Johnson
March 30, 2012

The "independent" audit of working conditions at Apple's Chinese manufacturing supply chain is out, and it is not good. Workers are being exploited in ways that violate human rights standards and laws, and letting them get away with this is costing us our own jobs. Apple's suppliers promise to improve conditions, make workplaces safer, stop forcing such long hours and lift wages. read more »

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Tariffs On Chinese Solar Might Help Prevent The Next Solyndra

By Dave Johnson
March 21, 2012

You have probably heard about a solar-energy company named Solyndra, but probably what you have heard is a bunch of negative, conspiratorial, anti-alternative-energy, anti-Obama stuff from the corporate/conservative spin machine. The real story is that our government is trying to help us capture some of the new green energy industry that will create the jobs of the future. But China is, too. read more »

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Free Trade Or Democracy, Can't Have Both

By Dave Johnson
March 1, 2012

Recent stories about the conditions of Apple's contractors in China have opened many people's eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why. read more »

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Labor's Fight Is OUR Fight

By Dave Johnson
February 29, 2012

Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. read more »

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Hell is Cheaper: China, Apple, and the Economics of Horror

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
February 15, 2012

I hate what I've learned about Apple's outsourcing to China. I hate hearing Professor William Black explain why he believes that Steve Jobs, who I admired very much in some ways, must have ignored repeated reports that employees were being cheated and endangered. I hate knowing that Apple's business practices are destroying the kind of good middle-class job his adoptive father had. read more »

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China's Next Leader Xi Jinping Visits US

By Dave Johnson
February 13, 2012

Get to know the name Xi Jinping. He is currently Vice President of China, and in 2013 is expected to become general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the next leader of the country. Xi is traveling in the US this week, meeting with President Obama and them stopping in Iowa and California to discuss local trade possibilities. read more »

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Manufacturing On Planet Economus

By Dave Johnson
February 7, 2012

Economist Christina Romer had an op-ed in the NY Times this weekend, Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment? The question that keep coming back to me is why did she feel the need to write an op-ed to diss manufacturing? Is it just an economist thing? read more »

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Democracy v. Plutocracy, Unions vs. Servitude

By Dave Johnson
January 26, 2012

Servitude: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life" read more »

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President Puts American Manufacturing Front And Center In State Of The Union

By Dave Johnson
January 25, 2012

President Obama put American manufacturing literally at the front and center of his State of the Union speech. American manufacturing was at the front of the speech and at the center of a "blueprint" for bringing back jobs and strengthening our economy. By placing manufacturing front and center he has taken this conversation further than any President before him. read more »

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Bill Clinton's Book -- The Ideas On Trade Agreements

By Dave Johnson
December 2, 2011

I've been taking a look at Former President Bill Clinton’s new book, Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy. read more »

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