New Orleans When there is actual truth told about banks and bankers that may not mean anything will change, but at least it’s a good way to start the day. On the way to battle the Sioux warriors used to say, “this is a good day to die!” In the battle for banking accountability, this [...]
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New Orleans There’s a t-shirt coming: global warming gonna get your mamma! The spate of disasters from Japan to Joplin, Birmingham, Alabama to Springfield, Mass brings all the horror home again. Living in New Orleans and still in recovery from Katrina and weaker and wiser from the experience, I keep an eye on these things, [...] New Orleans My crash course in the chemistry and advantages of bio-diesel started with a phone call almost a year ago from a union steward I knew who worked for the City of Santa Barbara in California. He and a buddy had spent a world of time and no small amount of money building a [...] Austin Brad Rockwell was a rarity. An environmental lawyer in Austin with a law firm that gave sabbaticals, he reached out and chose to spend two months helping ACORN International’s program in India working with our team in Delhi on organizing the ITO community, green informal workers, and our India FDI Watch Campaign. When he [...] Houston Wal-Mart took a shot at the Supreme Court on a last ditch appeal not on whether or not they discriminated against more than a million women, since everyone knew that was the case, but whether or not the class was too big. Now we are obviously caught between “too big to fail” and “too [...] New Orleans One result of the proposed new NLRB election rules, if and when adopted, may require a shift in post-election strategy. A union will know the results of the election and whether or not the challenged ballots on any unit questions affect the outcome or are aggravations waiting for hearings. Either way this would mean [...] New Orleans Where the new rule making by the NLRB on elections offers potentially significant advantages would seem to be on larger units, if unions are willing to marshal the will and resources to go big. The average representation petition for years has been relatively small, usually less than 50 workers. This battle to rebuild [...] New Orleans The NLRB has announced a new rule-making procedure on representation elections. Labor will try to paint lipstick on this pig, and business and their political friends will claim this is the end of the world as they know it, but in truth unions know this is not what they had wanted or [...] |
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