Last Minute Details and Sol Price

New Orleans The last day in the office before a combination of the end of the year, vacation, and work that is so different from the normal day-to-day that it seems “vacation-like,” (don’t ask!), is maddening.  There’s just not enough time.

I had just gotten another reminder of how short time is only hours ago. [...]

Sustaining Majority Unions

Philadelphia It was a lot of fun to be the guest speaker at the annual Labor Lawyers reception to support Philadelphia Jobs with Justice.  It was a good, there were people, old friends and comrades came out of nowhere, and once we got to the problems of “majority unionism” as discussed in Citizen Wealth, [...]

Wal-Mart’s Indian Adventure

Mumbai Killing time in the Delhi airport on the way to Mumbai, my eye caught the cover of a Forbes – India magazine with a huge headline:  “Wal-Mart’s Billion Dollar Baby.”  The India FDI Watch Campaign is still determined around these issues, so I was curious how the company was spinning their joint venture with [...]

Thank You Notes for Dropping Beck

New Orleans My mother is from Sunflower County, Mississippi.  They raise a lot of cotton and soybeans around there and once upon a time a ton of mischief, but one other thing they seem to specialize in is manners.  We were force fed manners from birth and even as you get sloppy about it, the [...]

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