John Funiciello

With all the hoop-la over “Joe the Plumber” and what will or will not happen if Barack Obama’s tax plan or John McCain’s tax plan goes into effect, it’s easy to forget some of the most neglected, abused, and exploited workers in America – farm workers. For more than 70 years, those whose back-breaking labor…

It’s clear now that the bailout of the large financial institutions of Wall Street and the people who led them into trouble is not going to do very much to help the average worker survive in an economy that’s growing more hostile to them with each passing year. What the bailout of Treasury Secretary Henry…

The financial crises in economies around the world have caused political leaders to join together to find solutions that do not appear to put the burden on the one perennial source of wealth that seems to be a constant: earnings of working people. After all, how many times can a country go to that well?…

While there are many and varied strong opinions about the state of the news business in America, it’s easy to miss what’s happening to the people who gather and report the news for newspapers, the historic foundation for the nation’s mass communications. Yes, there are television news shows (short and commercial-filled) and there are a…

BC welcomes John Funiciello as a columnist. “Solidarity America” will appear regularly and focus on the struggle of workers in the USA. The move in recent days to save America’s financial sector through the infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to save Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, AIG insurance, and their ilk…