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By Ralph Nader The phrase “brain drain” used to mean, in the 1950s and ‘60s, the flight of professionally-trained people from dictatorships to find opportunity in the U.S. and other Western countries. Now “brain drain” is used in American media to mean an active U.S. government policy to attract foreign entrepreneurs, scientists, physicians, nurses and…
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls on Postal Service to Be More Responsive to Employee Feedback Through Voice of the Employee Survey Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader today highlighted the results of the U.S. Postal Service’s 2011 Voice of the Employee (VOE) survey, an annual method of gaining feedback from postal workers. In the 2011 survey, nearly…
Dear Mr. Donahoe, When we met, I noted the U.S. Postal Service’s Voice of the Employee (VOE) form. In that conversation, you indicated that you were unfamiliar with various postal workers or unions having concerns about the implementation of the Voice of the Employee survey. Nor did you indicate any information about postal employees feeling…
By Ralph Nader (The imagined conversation between the Ghost of Osama bin Laden and President Barack Obama) The Ghost of Osama bin Laden swirled into the Oval Office where Barack Obama was spending the evening going over a pile of requested sign-offs for drone missions. Osama’s Ghost: “Mind if we have a conversation one year…
Condemns Postmaster General Donahoe’s Calls for Service Cuts, Post Office Closings, Job Cuts For More Information Contact: Ralph Nader or Jeff Musto 202-387-8034 Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader today called for Postmaster General Donahoe’s resignation. Several consumer non-profits joined him in this letter, including Public Citizen, Consumer Action, the Gray Panthers, and Essential Information. The Postmaster…
Dear Mr. Donahoe, You are actively presiding over the demise of one of our country’s greatest founding institutions. The U.S. Postal Service is an institution that was conceived by Benjamin Franklin and which has succeeded brilliantly over the generations to service, connect, and allow the people of our land to communicate with each other anywhere…
By Ralph Nader The media regularly cover awards for their reporters, editors and producers. They regularly cover award ceremonies for movie stars, athletes, and business leaders. But they regularly ignore the far more important awards for people who ethically blow the whistle on corruption and suppression in both business and government, risking their careers and…
By Ralph Nader Have you heard much lately about the 1.5 million Palestinians illegally imprisoned by the Israeli government in the world’s largest open-air Gulag? Their dire living conditions, worsened by a selective Israeli siege limiting the importation of necessities of life – medical items, food, water, building materials, and fuel to list a few…
March Madness comes once a year. Media Madness is year-round. What the mass media choose to cover and feature try to turn the priorities of any sane society upside down. People of vice, war, money, spectator sports and business receive media attention – oftentimes ad nausem. People of virtue, peace, civics, health, labor and community…
The Republican Party has a sense of humor, however inadvertently. Its ardent advocates regularly accuse the Obama Administration of heavy-handed regulation of business. Tell that to the hundred federal poultry inspectors who just picketed outside of the Department of Agriculture in opposition to a proposal that would allow those crammed, bacterial poultry slaughterhouses to do…