Expanded free trade has not been accompanied by an increase in U.S. jobs, according to an analysis by the website Business Insider.

Tony appeared on the September 18, 2011 episode of WADL’s television show, “Detroit Wants 2 Know”

For the many of you who have asked the link is to a PDF of the Rite Aid Union stores in the Metro Detroit area.  If you want a list for those out-state please send me an e-mail and I will send it to you.  Make sure you tell them you are patronizing them because [...]

As I look to union leaders like Mary Kay Henry, or James Hoffa, Jr., or Bob King, or Roger Robinson, or Kevin Moore, or people like Richard Trumka, I really do believe that a new paradigm in organized labor is being defined even as I type these words.

I am an American worker – but I work in Hong Kong
I should’a seen it comin’ – should’a known it all along
That you would devise a way to – outsource me

How is it ladies and gentlemen, how is it that just over 7 months into a new Michigan legislative body that we have been able to ignite so much passion and so much purpose by so many people? The answer is really quite simple, it is because there are more of us than there are of them and we have finally had enough.

LYRICS: Raise da debt ceiling! Raise da debt ceiling! Raise da debt ceiling! Raise da debt ceiling! 14 trillion in debt but yo we ain’t got no qualms droppin $100 bills and million dollar bombs spending money we don’t have that’s the name of the game they call me cumulo nimbus because you KNOW I [...]

Think about any other business that would be stressed, torn, and tattered, for so long and so strenuously as has organized labor over the last 5 years. How have they responded? Brilliantly! Eloquently! Compassionately! Bravely!

Tony Trupiano, host of First Shift with Tony Trupiano, and Eric Baerren, editor of Michigan Liberal

Aaron Sorkin gave us choices. Real politicians don’t anymore. And that’s just the sad truth.