U.S. Chamber of Commerce Law Firm Linked to "Dirty Tricks"

Feb 17, 2011 - Server logs and leaked emails reveal that employees at Hunton & Williams, the principal law firm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, spent 20 hours on SEIU websites last November while partners from the firm were working with private security firms on an illegal "dirty tricks" campaign aimed at undermining the credibility of the Chamber's political opponents, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Read more...

My Challenge to the Chamber of Commerce and Corporate CEOs

Feb 08, 2011 - I'd like to issue my own challenge to the Chamber of Commerce and the big Wall Street, oil, and insurance companies it represents: Start putting the good of our country before your profits and bonuses. Our communities need good jobs and it's time for corporations to deliver. Read more...

Who's behind the CEO-driven effort to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich?

Dec 01, 2010 - Come January 1st, the very same brand of Congressional inaction that resulted in the loss of unemployment benefits for more than 800,000 long-term job seeking Americans today could result in an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. The outcome? More monetary gains for many already-wealthy CEOS and execs. Read more...

SEIU Responds To Washington Post Smear Attack

Oct 21, 2010 - Following the repeated revelations about the US Chamber of Commerce's shady use of foreign money in American elections, the Chamber and its allies have launched a Rovian smear attack on SEIU and other unions. Read more...

If you weren't having babies, you (mostly) wouldn't get cheated at work

Aug 25, 2010 - Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck decided to commemorate the 90th anniversary of suffrage by suggesting last week that women who want equal pay have a "fetish for money," and recommending that women focus our energies on "choosing the right partner at home." Thanks in part to the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce, laws against pay equity have been delayed and are still insufficient. Read more...

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Chamber Finally Apologizes for Something

Aug 19, 2010 - In a rare occurrence, the Chamber actually issues a (half-hearted) apology for publishing a horribly offensive post on their blog on Wednesday essentially labeling equal pay advocates as gold-diggers. The Chamber's thinly veiled attempt to back-peddle here isn't fooling anyone--and it certainly doesn't right the many egregious wrongs the corporation has committed by actively opposing movements for gender equality. Read more...

U.S. Chamber: The Perfect Joker?

Jul 12, 2010 - As long as we're comparing the economy to Batman, I think we've found a perfect Joker in the U.S. Chamber. Read more...

U.S. Chamber: You've Got to Be Joking, Right?

Jul 12, 2010 - A 1960's Batman comic. That's how the Chamber of Commerce characterizes our current economic crisis. It's not surprising that the U.S. Chamber would liken our national debate on job creation to a Batman comic strip. To a lobbying powerhouse like the Chamber, this is a game, and they're priming the pump with tens of millions of dollars to make sure that in the end, they win. Read more...

This July 4th, Declare Your Independence from the U.S. Chamber

Jul 03, 2010 - We've got the perfect way to start off your holiday weekend: Our friends over at US Chamber Watch are having some fun in a new video in which companies are "declaring their independence" from "King Tom" (Donohue) and the U.S. Chamber. Read more...

New U.S. Chamber Watchdog Website Launches

Jun 17, 2010 - Today, a new U.S. Chamber watchdog group has launched: www.fixtheuschamber.org. The U.S. Chamber Watch is the result an outgrowth of several months of work by many progressive advocates who grew tired of battling the Chambers' cynical lobbying and shameless politics - not to mention their bottomless bank account spent in opposition of working people. Read more...

More Big Name Organizations Split From U.S. Chamber

Mar 22, 2010 - Yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a statement declaring passage of the health care bill "a wrong and unfortunate decision that ignores the will of the American people." Talk about a pot calling the kettle black...It's clear the U.S. Chamber ignored the will and position of one of its most significant members - the one that represents doctors and medical professionals, no less. Read more...

2010's 800 Pound Spending Gorilla? The Chamber

Mar 18, 2010 - Move over, national political parties: this year, the spending powerhouse poised to make the most difference in the 2010 elections doesn't respond to the initials "RNC" or "DNC." Like our biggest stars - Madonna, Prince, Charo - that distinction falls to a group we know so well, they need but one name: Chamber. Read more...

U.S. Chamber & GOP Don't Want Living Wage for Federal Contract Workers

Mar 02, 2010 - The New York Times reported recently that nearly one in four U.S. workers is employed by companies that have contracts with the federal government. Now the White House wants to make sure those employers obey the law by changing how companies can win lucrative government contracts. Read more...

The U.S. Chamber's idea of health reform?
A continuation of the status quo

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The difference between a Tea Party convention and a Chamber meeting? Hard to tell...

Feb 09, 2010 - On Monday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce blog highlighted a Friday luncheon featuring U.S. Chamber spokespersons, noting, Read more...

The U.S. Chamber Revises History, Hides the Gun Powder

Feb 09, 2010 - Yesterday, R. Bruce Josten, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official, penned an op-ed in the Onion The Hill newspaper, ostensibly attempting to salvage what's left of the U.S. Chamber's fading credibility on health care reform. To read Josten's take on it, the U.S. Chamber sounds like a well-meaning peace broker for health reform. Read more...

U.S. Chamber's "Card Check Compromise" Poll Compromises the Facts

Feb 02, 2010 - Yesterday, the U.S. Chamber released a "nationwide poll" which claimed to reveal the public's fears about how the "Employee Free Choice Act" would hurt job growth. If the Chamber really wanted to stir up some press on their reinvigorated anti-worker campaign, perhaps they should have picked a less-obviously right wing polling company to make their intentions appear less transparent. Read more...

GOP operatives pen talking points most likely to scare American public away from reform

Feb 02, 2010 - Should the "Party of No" want to spin the news about happenings on Capitol Hill away from what's good for working people to what's good for the GOP and Wall Street, Frank Luntz is not the only go-to right winger to consider. GOPers took part in a similarly dishonest, distasteful anti-reform brainstorm back in 2005, as word of the Employee Free Choice Act legislation to reform broken labor law emerged from Congress. Read more...

VIDEO: Health Care Advocates Rally Against U.S. Chamber & Corporate Interests

Jan 27, 2010 - Around 250 health care supporters rallied on the steps of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's headquarters in Washington, DC today to send a clear message to Congress: if we allow corporate lobbyists to win, the people will lose. Watch what unfolded on the steps of the U.S. Chamber across from the White House in today's protest... Read more...

Congress: Stop Letting Insurance Companies Act as Death Panels

Jan 26, 2010 - Stacie Ritter attended today's march and rally outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on behalf of her "special interests" -- her twin daughters, both of whom are cancer survivors. "We cannot make our children pre-existing conditions," she said, speaking to the crowd of 200+ health care advocates gathered before her today. Read more...

DC Rally at Noon: Mobilization against U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Jan 26, 2010 - In the wake of the election in Massachusetts, congressional leaders are weighing how to fulfill their commitment to fix our broken health care system. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has spent millions -- and used millions from the nation's biggest health insurers -- to kill health care reform. But health care reform is not all the only issue Chamber lobbied against in 2009. Read more...

Supreme Court Ruling Equals Big Win for U.S. Chamber

Jan 25, 2010 - Corks are still popping on H Street, as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce won its Supreme Court case and now has the green light to legally spend unlimited and undisclosed corporate contributions on direct advocacy in federal elections. While experts might disagree whether the Citizens United decision helps Republicans or Democrats more, the consensus is that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the big winner emerging from this major overhaul of the nation's campaign finance rules. Read more...

Insurers Funnel Cash to U.S. Chamber

Jan 13, 2010 - The insurance industry has been funding attack ads by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against health insurance reform. That's right - insurers, who at the time claimed to be standing with the President in support of reform, were secretly funding a campaign to kill it. Read more...

U.S. Chamber hides from the truth on climate change & health reform

Jan 08, 2010 - This week, Rolling Stone has an article profiling some of the most powerful polluters and climate change deniers working day and night to derail efforts to scale back global warming. Not surprisingly, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue made the list of climate killers, dubbing him "The Know Nothing." Read more...

Wake up call for unorganized workers & the labor movement

Dec 28, 2009 - Today in an interview on The Real News Network, journalist Phil Dine had a message for unorganized workers, on why all working Americans should be in a labor union. Interviewer Paul Jay and Dine also discussed unions needing to be able to say to the Democratic party, "you're either with us...or you're with the Chamber of Commerce." Read more...

2009 Scrooge of the Year goes to....U.S. Chamber of Commerce!

Dec 21, 2009 - In his acclaimed novella "A Christmas Carol," English author Charles Dickens wrote that Ebenezer Scrooge was "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!" Over the past couple of weeks, thousands of people voted in agreement that this Scrooge description fits the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to a t and today, Jobs with Justice announced the corporate front group as the winner of the 2009 Scrooge of the Year. Read more...

Shocker: Super, Super Rich Want to Stay That Way

Dec 17, 2009 - Members of United for A Fair Economy are calling on the Senate to act to extend the current estate tax before the holiday recess. If the Senate does not act to either pass a one-year extension or a permanent estate tax before January 1, 2010, it will mean that the folks who inherit huge fortunes -- $3.5 million and above -- no longer have to pay taxes on their gains. Read more...

U.S. Chamber Armed with Hyperbole, Bad Metaphors to Defeat Employee Free Choice Act

Dec 14, 2009 - Fresh off their quixotic campaigns to kill health care reform, climate change legislation, consumer financial protection, and pretty much anything else that their small group of backers dislike, the U.S. Chamber will renew its pledge to defeat labor law reform. Read more...

Congress tightens Wall Streets' financial belt

Dec 14, 2009 - The House voted to approve the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (HR. 4173) by a measure of 223 to 202 on Friday. SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger welcomed the passage of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 in the House as an "important milestone in reversing the decades-long strangle hold Wall Street and big banks have had over our economy." Read more...

U.S. Chamber & GOP leaders hold 11th hour press conference to scrap healthcare bill

Dec 09, 2009 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and GOP leaders are using every trick in the book to kill healthcare reform. Politico reports that today, the Chamber and 70 business leaders from across the country joined Republican leaders in a press conference to call on Congress to scrap their current healthcare bill and start over. Read more...

Fox News et al: Climate Change Fairytales & the Salem Witch Trials

Dec 07, 2009 - Stolen global warming emails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (CRU) have resulted in climate change deniers raising their voices in proclaiming global warming is not real, and has no human causes. As the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit begins, Fox News and other media enablers are piling on the fear-mongering wagon that they're calling "Climate-gate." Read more...

No sick leave for H1N1?

Nov 30, 2009 - You'd think the threat of H1N1 flu would be reason enough for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to stop its incessant lobbying. Think again. The Chamber is actually lobbying Congress to not give paid sick time for workers sick with H1N1, saying that "the problem is not nearly as great as some people say." The facts say otherwise. Read more...

As for the Chamber's "we speak for 3 million members" tagline...

Nov 25, 2009 - If the Chamber isn't representing the interests of the members of their Local Chambers, whose interests are they representing? A New York Times article published on Monday helps shed some light. Read more...

Big business's skewed view on paid sick leave

Nov 25, 2009 - As Congress deliberates over a bill to expand paid sick leave as Americans suffer through a pandemic of the H1N1 virus, big business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appear to be completely in denial over the importance of the issue. Tell THAT to the 57 million working Americans who currently have no paid sick days at all. Read more...

Even the Chamber doesn't want to sit next to the Chamber

Nov 24, 2009 - The U.S Chamber of Commerce is fast becoming the smelly kid at school no one wants to sit next to. Yesterday, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce publicly distanced itself from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, becoming the second Local Chamber group in less than a week to speak out against the parent organization for their out-of-touch views and lobbying against paid sick leave and climate change. Read more...

The U.S. Chamber wants you to take a flu vacation

Nov 23, 2009 - Approximately one-third of all workers don't get any sick leave. The U.S. Chamber's reaction to this? Quit complaining -- because according to them, 83 percent of private sector workers can simply use vacation time if they get H1N1. After all, who needs a sunny trip to the Carribean this winter when you've got body aches, a hacking cough and a high fever to keep you warm? Read more...

Tell the U.S. Chamber: Let people with H1N1 use paid sick time

Nov 19, 2009 - We already knew the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's extremism on issues such as financial reform, labor law, climate change and health care reform have left them out of touch with the mainstream. However, their recent opposition to a bill proposing paid sick leave for workers who contract flu-like symptoms in light of this year's H1N1 epidemic is simply unconscionable. Read more...

U.S. Chamber: Lobbying Against the American People Since 1935

Nov 16, 2009 - News broke today that the U.S. Chamber has been fishing around for an economist willing to file a "report" on health care reform (translation: they're offering to pay $50,000 to someone willing to say health care reform is bad for the economy - which is exactly what they did against the Employee Free Choice Act earlier this year). Sadly, this latest gaffe is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Chamber's decades-long campaign against the American people, and in the last few months, they've gone into overdrive. Read more...

Big Banks & U.S. Chamber, There's a New Cop in Town

Oct 23, 2009 - Yesterday the House voted 39 to 29 to move forward with the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, to help put a stop to the dangerous and deceptive products and practices that got us into this mess. It was a sad day for corporations in the financial, insurance, and real estate sector--like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce & the Financial Services Roundtable--who spent a combined total of $321 million lobbying against federal reforms such as limits on bonuses and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). Read more...

SEIU: CFPA Vote Key First Step But More Must Be Done To Protect Americans From Wall Street Recklessness

Oct 22, 2009 - SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger released the following statement after the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee voted 39 to 29 to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA): "Today, Chairman Frank and the Financial Services Committee stood up on behalf of American families by passing legislation to create a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency--and to prevent business as usual to continue..." Read more...

"Can I see YOUR business card?" The Chamber gets punk'd

Oct 20, 2009 - Editors and fact checkers at several major news outlets were having a seriously bad case of "the Mondays" yesterday, as The Washington Post, CNBC, NY Times, Fox News and other major newspapers were duped by a Chamber of Commerce hoax perpetrated by the Yes Men at the National Press Club. Read more...

New video: Break up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Oct 08, 2009 - Five major companies have recently joined the growing list of groups ditching the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over their out-of-touch policies on climate change. Companies like Nike and Apple are serious about their break-ups with the Chamber -- but if it's any consolation, they still totally want to be friends. Watch our new video to find out why the Chamber keeps getting dumped. Read more...

Apple to Chamber: It's Not Us, It's You

Oct 08, 2009 - In the aftermath of Apple's recent break-up with the U.S. Chamber, the corporate front group couldn't seem to accept that their actions have consequences and take the split from Apple like a man. U.S. Chamber President Thomas J. Donohue shot back a letter to Apple chief Steve Jobs that was written in a less-than-mature tone. Read more...

Apple wants to fall far from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's tree

Oct 05, 2009 - Mac users out there are feeling very "green" right now, if word has reached them that Apple has become the newest company to join the hasty exodus from corporate front group U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The computer software company announced their exit from the corporate front group today over their differing climate change policies, joining Nike and an ever-growling list of companies who don't share out-of-touch viewpoints on lobbying on behalf of the interests of Wall Street instead of working people. Read more...

Turn off the Lights at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Sep 30, 2009 - In the last week, three major energy companies have quit the U.S. Chamber. And just today, Nike left its role on the U.S. Chamber's Board. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce needs to be immediately discredited, and your Senators need to hear from you: Sign the petition to the Senate now.. Read more...

Turn off the Lights at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Sep 30, 2009 - The last one to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, please turn off the lights. The exodus from the corporate front group is taking place because of its extreme views on issues like climate change, health care reform, financial regulations, and labor law reform. We must use this opportunity to further isolate the U.S. Chamber as an out-of-touch outfit that only serves the interest of a handful of greedy CEOs. Sign the petition to your senators: listen to working people, not the greedy CEOs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read more...

Update: Filling Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat, Banks, Protests for Corporate Reform, Employee Free Choice

Sep 28, 2009 - This past week, while much of D.C. has been focused on the healthcare mark-up (us included), we've also been tracking a few other stories that we wanted to bring to your attention. First--the encouraging news that Massachusetts will return to full representation and the Democrats in Congress to a cloture-proof majority. Also, don't miss two stories on SEIU's calls for financial reform and a questionable award choice from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read more...

The U.S. Chamber's Puzzling Definition of "Corporate Citizenship"

Sep 24, 2009 - Each fall, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce awards member organizations with its "Corporate Citizenship Award" as a way of recognizing contributions to communities. Unfortunately for the U.S. Chamber, the award is blind to a multitude of misdeeds committed by honorees. Indeed, for two years running, the U.S. Chamber has selected companies rife with problems. Read more...

Wall Street Reform Must Not Be Stalled or Stopped

Sep 15, 2009 - "When Lehman Brothers fell, they took not just the rest of Wall Street, but all of Main Street, down with them. Yet, one year later, the greedy CEOs who caused the collapse are unremorseful, unrepentant, and virtually unchanged," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, following President Obama's speech yesterday on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. While the economy continues to recover, President Obama warned, "normalcy cannot lead to complacency." Read more...

Like Two Vitriolic Peas in a Pod: Glenn Beck and the US Chamber of Commerce

Sep 14, 2009 - Two of America's most favorite right-wing institutions will converge in East Lansing, Michigan at an event ironically titled the "Future Forum." FOX News' Glenn Beck and US Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue will both keynote an event hosted by the Michigan Chamber that is sure to tickle the free market fancies of those in attendance. Read more...

US Chamber of Commerce at the Root of Financial Crisis

Sep 09, 2009 - As Americans continue to face furloughs, layoffs, and dwindling savings, as millions find themselves unable to afford the homes that banks enticed them to buy with tricky mortgages, and as states and cities cut services as a result of declining tax revenue, CEOs and the US Chamber of Commerce remain unrepentant, unremorseful, and if they get their way, unregulated. Read more...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reinvigorates Ad Campaign to Stomp out Consumer Protections

Sep 08, 2009 - As Congress returns from recess and gets back to work to pass legislation to bring access to quality, affordable healthcare to everyone, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is wasting no time working hard to hang onto the same reckless business practices that got us in this hot financial mess in the first place. The Chamber is launching a new $2 million ad campaign attacking the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Read more...

US Chamber's Death-By-Waiting Strategy on Health Care

Sep 02, 2009 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a clear strategy in the fight for heath care reform: delay, delay, delay. In a new ad released this week, the U.S. Chamber showed its true colors with the improbable claim that health insurance reform is moving "too fast." Read more...

Reminder: No coercion in majority sign-up

Aug 20, 2009 - EPI posted a recent study that shows literally no coercion in majority sign-up. You can read the survey here, but the graph says it all. So when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce tries its scare tactics, remember: it's corporations that coerce and intimidate workers who want to join unions. Anything else is just simply not true. Read more...

Why is the Chamber outsourcing American jobs?

Aug 11, 2009 - Last week, SEIU President Andy Stern called on U.S. Chamber President Tom Donohue to explain why his organization supports outsourcing of American jobs. "It's unconscionable that, at a time when most Americans are consumed with fear of losing their jobs, their healthcare and their homes, the nation's top advocate for corporate lobbyists is actively working to make those fears become reality," said Stern. Read more...

SEIU: We Can't Afford More of the Chamber's Policies

Aug 06, 2009 - With Friday's new unemployment numbers projected to show a jobless rate in double digits, SEIU President Andy Stern today called on U.S. Chamber President Tom Donohue to explain why his organization supports outsourcing of American jobs. Read more...

Bad Company - the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Jul 31, 2009 - Read more...

Alliance for Worker Freedom kicks out workers

Jul 28, 2009 - Today, several workers went to Capitol Hill to attend a panel discussion about the Employee Free Choice Act sponsored by the Alliance for Worker Freedom. Much to their dismay, the workers were escorted out of the event after its organizers complained to the Capitol Police. Read more...

Montana Small Town Business Owner Speaks Out Against U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Jul 28, 2009 - In Chester, pop. 730, on the broad northern grasslands of the Montana Hi-Line, local business owner and Chamber of Commerce member Margaret Novak says she's ready to speak out for health care and labor law reform. "The middle class is stuck footing the bill without the means to pay it," Novak said. "Any economist will tell you that you need a strong middle class to make the economy work." Novak and her husband, Mike, own Mike's Thriftway, a supermarket and gas station along U.S. Highway 2 at the edge of town. The two have more than two dozen employees and offer health insurance and family-friendly scheduling to employees. Read more...

The clock is ticking for consumer protections

Jul 23, 2009 - Congress is reportedly delaying action on President Obama's consumer protection reforms. Why? Because the U.S. Chamber and big bank lobbyists complained for a delay. Click here to fax your Representatives and tell them the U.S. Chamber and big banks shouldn't set the agenda on financial reform. Read more...

Ad check: U.S. Chamber of Commerce pushes phony numbers in new offensive against health care reform

Jul 22, 2009 - The Chamber of Commerce continues their "Just Say No!" strategy against health care reform with a new ad this week that flaunts a series of misleading numbers to make the case (or rather, their lack thereof) against legislation that will guarantee Americans access to quality, affordable healthcare. Here are the real facts on how small businesses and taxpayers would actually be affected by the latest proposals for fixing our broken system. Read more...

Big banks and the Chamber do their best to stop economic recovery--AGAIN

Jul 21, 2009 - Today, reports hit saying Congress is delaying action on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency after a series of lobbying efforts and a letter from the U.S. Chamber and big banks. When it comes to fixing our economy, Congress must not buckle under the pressure of the U.S. Chamber and big banks. Read more...

U.S. Chamber, Big Banks Continue Attack on America's Economic Recovery

Jul 21, 2009 - Today, SEIU released a statement from Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger following reports that Congress is delaying action on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency following lobbying efforts and a letter from the U.S. Chamber and big banks. Read more...

What would happen if the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had its way?

Jul 10, 2009 - When CEOs in Washington decide the agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they seem to forget all about real workers and business owners throughout America. We took a look at what would happen if the U.S. Chamber had its way, and how those policies would impact certain states. SEIU's activists in these states are faxing their senators asking them to stand with working people, not the greedy CEOs of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read more...

The U.S. Chamber v. Everyone

Jul 07, 2009 - Progressive groups and individuals are targeting the U.S. Chamber for its opposition to pretty much anything that makes life even "a little better for working people." Read more...

Sharing Responsibility, Ditching the Chamber

Jun 30, 2009 - The Chamber of Commerce's veneer of unity on health care is beginning to fade. In the latest blow to the Chamber's "Just Say No!" strategy on health care reform, Wal-Mart joined with SEIU and the Center for American Progress today in announcing support for an employer mandate on health coverage. Read more...

Top Five Worst U.S. Chamber Policies for Small Businesses

Jun 29, 2009 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims to defend the interests of small businesses, but even a quick examination of their legislative record shows them opposing bill after bill that may help small businesses--and consistently siding with big corporations. Read more...

U.S. Chamber to the Senate: Unions are right, we're total hypocrites

Jun 18, 2009 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce just released a letter to the Senate, detailing the corporate group's hypocrisy in opposing first contract arbitration in the Employee Free Choice Act. The U.S. Chamber was apparently reeling from recent newspaper ads highlighting their two-faced approach to the issue, and wanted to explain itself to the Senate. Read more...

Top 10 Historical Chamber of Commerce Quotes Against Healthcare

Jun 17, 2009 - When the US Chamber of Commerce opposed early versions of the healthcare bill Tuesday, we weren't surprised. This is, after all, the same group that colorfully told the Associated Press it was "time to unload the powder and fill the musket" in their fight against health care reform. Read more...