Cool Tools: Corporate Intrigue and Family-Friendly Ideas

by James Parks, Mar 26, 2006

Looking for a good whodunit or a primer on how to care for a sick child and still keep your job? Check out the latest Cool Tools on the www.aflcio.org/ website and purchase them at The Union Shop Online™.

With two former Enron CEOs, Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, in federal court on fraud charges, the latest Cool Tools highlights the DVD “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” Based on the book of the same name, the DVD shows how Lay and Skilling, along with other Enron officers, intentionally misled the public, regulators, investors and employees about the company’s finances and created one of the biggest corporate disasters in history.

The featured item in Cool Tools is a thoroughly researched book about the far-reaching and harmful impact of Wal-Mart’s business practices on the nation and around the world. The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Mart’s Everyday Low Prices Is Hurting America chronicles the rise of Wal-Mart and includes a comprehensive look at how the company’s low-wage, anti-union policies have cost thousands of good jobs and driven down living standards.

For working parents and anyone who negotiates a union contract, Cool Tools offers two guides to creating a family-friendly workplace. Making It Work Better, a Work Family Educational Program, by the Labor Project for Working Families, is a step-by-step manual to help educate and mobilize union members and leaders on work and family issues. One Sick Child Away from Being Fired: When ‘Opting Out’ Is Not an Option reviews union arbitrations on family care issues and explains that unions protect workers who have work and family problems.

Also, learn about the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s website, www.solidaritycenter.org/,

which offers news and information about the enormous problems workers face in the global economy.

The site also offers an opportunity to subscribe to the Solidarity Center’s new quarterly newsletter.       

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