Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | News | AAN.org

Office Clerks Outsourcing Strike Ends Years of Fruitless Bargainingnew

After an eight-day strike by the Office Clerical Unit of ILWU idled most of the Los Angeles and Long Beach port complex, the terminals are now bustling again, and the workers and the union seemingly couldn't be happier with the outcome.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 12-14-2012 | Business & Labor

SCOTUS Decision on Health Care Law–Was it Really a Victory?new

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts only said that he found the individual mandate was not supported by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution—since people would be taxed for not engaging in commerce.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 07-02-2012 | Policy Issues

Tags: Supreme Court, Medicare, Medicaid

Affordable Housing Out Of Reach For Most Rentersnew

If you’re working a minimum wage job in America, where can you afford to live? Other than your parents’ basement, the answer is simple: Nowhere. That’s according to “Out of Reach 2012,” the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent version of its annual report.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 06-18-2012 | Homelessness

Tags: Homelessness, Great Recession, Affordable Housing Out Of Reach For Most Renters

Retired Industry Expert Joins Gas Refinery Fight in the Los Angeles South Baynew

After spending more than three decades working in the oil industry, Connie Rutter is the perfect citizen advocate to advance the community’s effort to shut the dangerous Rancho LPG tank facility.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 02-23-2012 | Environment

Democracy Comes Home to Wisconsinnew

Starting with about 10,000 workers and their supporters at the beginning of the week, numbers swelled to nearly 40,000 by Feb. 18, the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War era.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 02-25-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Hosni Mubarak

Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?new

While Bush never listened to those who disagreed with him politically, Obama seems to have made a fetish of the opposite: on the issue of Afghanistan, he has listened almost exclusively to Bush holdovers in the military, from Defense Secretary Gates on down, while tuning out those whose diverse alternative approaches have much more support in his political base.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 04-04-2009 | War

Tags: Afghanistan, international

Hanging the Messenger

How Viacom killed Dan Rather and the story of Bush's National Guard service.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 01-16-2008 | Media

Tags: media, Bush, CBS, Dan Rather, Viacom

LA County Fed Forms Partnership With Shanghai Unions

It's the first formal relationship between a U.S. central labor council and their equivalent in China.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 07-12-2007 | International

Tags: international

Clean Air Plan Puts Pressure on Ports

The AQMD aims for 50 percent smog cuts by 2020.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 10-25-2006 | Environment

Tags: environment

The ABCs Of 9/11

Disney's TV network errs, blames Clinton.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 09-15-2006 | Media

Tags: media

What Would Happen?

New reports from USC and UCLA both argue that, whatever the local impacts, the national economy would not be severely strained, and would not suffer a recession if terrorists attacked the ports.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 09-01-2006 | Disasters

Tags: disasters