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Billionaire California bond manager Bill Gross calls it "a haute con job." Bloomberg News columnist John Wasik describes it as "a testament to the art of economic spin." More and more shoppers and consumer simply disbelieve it.

The subject of this scorn is the federal government's vaunted Consumer Price Index or CPI. Americans are now beginning to understand that this indicator has its own share of gimmicks not unlike a sub-prime mortgage or the six pages of fine print that accompanies your credit card agreement.

From a Peter Rachleff review of the the book "Taking Care of Business"

"...This brings me to the example that I most want to discuss, one even more troubling for those labor activists and historians who see Sweeney as representing a break with the past. These events did occur before the publication of Taking Care of Business but they receive no consideration in its pages. (For my account of these events, I am relying on articles published in Labor Notes and electronically in the internet newsletter, Mexican Labor News and on personal communications with people who participated in a trip to Mexico to meet with railroad workers or in union gatherings with them in the U.S. I want to be clear that the interpretation of these events and their significance is my own.) ......"

"Instead of examining how core work processes are affecting health and safety, many employers are directing attention to workers themselves as the problem rather than work restructuring and hazardous job conditions."

"....Finally, I feel deeply sad. I could tell that the SEIU staff and members were angry and passionate. I could tell that they believed deeply that they were right. But the fact that they chose this approach to deal with their feelings is so troubling. I wonder what it means for my political view that people are generally open to education and new ideas, and that democratic debate over differences is possible....."

Stephanie Luce

".... Luce writes in her piece "I wonder if SEIU has lost sight of the real battle?" If the battle is defined as creating an unaccountable debating society for academics and commentators to work out their own "issues," I plead guilty to failure. If, however, the battle is defined as rebuilding the American labor movement and raising the standard of living for millions of American workers, then I am confident we in SEIU are clear-eyed and focused...."

Dave Regan

Mike (JB) Schaffner, of www.theamericandriver.com, today announced that New York City has effectively cancelled the convoy in Manhattan scheduled for May 1, 2008.

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