It turns out that Wall Street is back to its old tricks—raking in the big bucks while Main Street struggles just to make ends meet. In fact, as Steven Pearlstein reported in today’s Washington Post, corporate profits are higher than ever, but millions of Americans are still out of work.

Why? Because corporations are taking advantage of the economic crisis to put the squeeze on workers—demanding more hours for less pay—instead of rehiring workers who lost their jobs as a result of Wall Street’s recklessness. In other words, corporate CEOs are benefiting from the same crisis they created, the same crisis that left so many working families out in the cold.

No wonder working people are angry.

And Corporate America’s continued manhandling of our economy is no secret. Over the past week, major outlets like The New York Times, USA Today, and The Christian Science Monitor have all picked up the story. But Big Business and its allies on the Right haven’t apologized. They’re too busy maintaining their shameless stranglehold on America’s working families and our economy—all under the auspices of job creation.

Pearlstein, for one, doesn’t let them get away with it. He writes:

If Chamber [of Commerce] President Tom Donohue wants to round up those responsible for the lack of job growth in this country, all he has to do is call a meeting of his board of directors.

As companies make the most of the country’s economic woes, the rights of workers to form a union and bargain collectively are more important than ever. We need to send a strong message to the companies capitalizing on high unemployment and financial uncertainty that enough is enough. And that starts with expanding union membership – while leveraging activists like you to take on corporate greed.