Jane Hamsher

    Winners & Losers: AFL-CIO Abandons Obama on ‘NAFTA-Style’ Trade Deal

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 10th at 09:30 AM  | 

    What a week! When it was mentioned on Monday that this would be interesting to watch with popcorn in hand, who could have imagined just how interesting it would get? Between Monday and today, the President of the United States has been called a sellout and ‘mentally disturbed,’ as well as essentially told to go reproduce himself (in a not-fit-for-print sort of way), all by | Read More »

    Latte-Drinking Democrats: Did We Pick the Wrong Horse?

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 9th at 11:00 AM  | 

    Moving away for a moment from the question of will they or won’t they increase taxes, there is a conflagration of epic proportions going on right now on the Left. The Democratic base of assorted Marxist special interest groups are going bonkers (not that they weren’t already) over Barack Obama’s breaking his campaign promise to redistribute wealth tax the rich. At the same time, over | Read More »

    A House Divided: Andy Stern’s Ex Slams UAW’s King Over South Korean Sell Out

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 6th at 06:00 AM  | 

    Incredibly, there are people who are further to the left than former-SEIU boss Andy Stern. One of them happens to be Vladimir Lenin his ex-girlfriend, Jane Hamsher (former Hollywood producer and current proprietor of the ultra-left blog Firedoglake). Purportedly, Jane dumped Andy when he backed down from the public option in ObamaCare. Some months later, after Andy left the union movement and got a job as a | Read More »