Austin Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession. Unemployment has hardly hit 6%. The airport is new and busy. Developers are still trying to build and finish projects, and community fights against them are real and important. I caught up with the fight to [...]
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Toronto Some of the most interesting meetings in my several days in Toronto were with our friends in the Canadian labor movement in Ontario, especially at the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), SEIU Canada, and the Steelworkers. There’s a hunger to organize in most of these unions even though several of them are getting hammered by [...] Dallas On the ground I know we are beating Wal-Mart! Our WARN project in Florida has prevented the new construction of any Wal-Mart Superstores for the last more than 28 months. We have the bottled up throughout central Florida. We are increasingly optimistic that we can stop them in Merced, California with our coalition [...] Tampa Sitting with the WARN staff in the office here reviewing our work with Wal-Mart throughout central Florida, it was fun to see the Google alerts coming into the blackberry indicating that we were in the news as the company feels the pain. First there [...] |
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