New Orleans In about a month the biggest union election in 2010 will be counted once all of the mail ballots are in from over 40,000 Kaiser Permanente workers who are being polled. Unfortunately this not another milestone of successful union organizing, but hopefully the final major battle in the intense and long standing, [...]
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New Orleans I was at a lost to figure out what shocked me more, the report that the US Government had never looked at the impact on employment and the disabled, or the stark terror of the depression level unemployment figures: 14.5% for 2009 and already 16.4% by midyear 2010! The news was, if anything, [...] New Orleans Tomorrow in Phoenix Advocates & Actions will release a report called “Modification Mysteries: Playing Foreclosure Roulette with the Banks.” The report will not only document the huge ineptness of the Treasury Department and the banks in handling foreclosure modifications (as I discussed last week less than $250 million has been spent of [...] Detroit I’ve been to enough World Social Forum events in Brazil, India, and even Nairobi, that I’ve got a pretty good idea how to navigate the chaos and mine through the rock to find the gold, and stepping in for a bit in Detroit seemed the same ‘ol, same ‘ol. [...] |
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