New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” [...]
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New Orleans Dharmendra Kumar, campaign director of the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org), an organizational affiliate and campaign of ACORN International, has been emailing and telling me for days that the outcry against the Indian government’s recent announcement that it would open foreign direct investment to multi-brand retail was intense and unyielding in Delhi and [...] New Orleans The action by the Indian government to modify the standards for foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail to 51% ownership is something that ACORN International and the India FDI Watch Campaign (www.indiafdiwatch.org) that founded and continue to support have long opposed. We have done so in no small manner because of [...] Kingston The last several days it feels like I have been reliving the organizing we did through the Wal-Mart Workers Association and WARN (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now) from 2004 through 2008, largely in central Florida and California. That experience was the heart of the discussion with our brothers on the national Steelworkers staff [...] 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 Wow! A seasonal surprise!! It turns out that there were a couple of pieces of gold hidden in the hills and valleys of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act that I had overlooked and that have international impact. Retailers are required to report annually on the origin of minerals used in products from war-torn [...] New Orleans Next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Dukes vs. Wal-Mart suit seeking to rectify the damage that comes from the company’s systematic discrimination against women workers. The latest company dodge comes by way of an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court of the 9th Circuit decision to create a million [...] New Orleans Part of the digital divide crushing lower income families turns out to be the slick way that law firms and others have been exploiting the court system to harass people with credit problems and then pile on more debt, fees, and collection charges by automating the process. In the same way that bottom [...] |
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