Trade Groups Launch Campaign to Attack NLRB and Keep Wages Low
In the multi-pronged corporate attack on working people, two public relations and lobbying campaigns have appeared, taking aim at the National Labor Relations Board.
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ACCE Wants Your Town to Subsidize ALEC-Style Corporate Lobbying
ALEC is famous for using "small government" rhetoric to push its corporate-funded privatization agenda in state legislatures across the country. In a hypocritical twist, the corporate bill mill now wants city and county governments to subsidize the conferences of its new local offshoot.
Fond du Lac Nuns Get Northrop Grumman to Dump ALEC
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has ended its relationship with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), thanks to shareholder engagement from the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin-based Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes.
Tar Sands Pipeline Planned for Dane County Eclipses KXL
The expansion of Enbridge's Line 61 pipeline through Dane County, Wisconsin "is on the front lines of our fight against climate change."
In Black Lives Matter Protest, Corporate Rights Trump Free Speech
The Mall of America's response to Black Lives Matter protests highlight important questions about free speech in an era of privatized public spaces.
eBay Becomes 100th Company to Cut Ties to "Controversial" ALEC
"We are not renewing membership in ALEC," eBay tweeted on the afternoon of December 18.
Conflicted Supreme Court Takes Up Walker Criminal Probe
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is taking up the Walker criminal probe, but faces questions of judicial ethics.
How State and Local Subsidies Fuel Inequality
"When large corporations controlled by billionaires are given lavish taxpayer subsidies, the rest of us get stuck footing more of the bill"
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
"What can Brown do for you?" UPS is one of only nine funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual winter meeting listed on its brochure this year.
Monsanto Sues Maui for Direct Democracy, Launches New PR Campaign
Residents of Maui County voted to ban the growing of GMO crops on the islands of Maui, Lanai, and Molokai. Monsanto and Dow have sued the county to stop the people's law.
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