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, [...]
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San Francisco Sitting in the Tides Momentum conference, I couldn’t help taking some notes as Larry Mishel from the Economic Policy Institute showed his slides estimating that unemployment would rise to over 10% in 2010. More frighteningly, he said that when he added in underemployment the rates would be almost 18% then with 27,000,000 jobs [...] 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 [...] New Orleans As the international work percolates along let me share a couple of notices on campaigns that are stirring in Toronto in an exciting campaign that is leverage political strength to win tenants rights and of course our on-going effort to force there to be accountability in India before there is an relaxation [...] New Orleans The first rollout of a store in India from the fruit of the Bharti-Wal-Mart partnership is eminent. The Journal was trumpeting the in Amritsar in the Punjab scheduled for next Tuesday. Word in India from Dharmendra Kumar, director of India FDI Watch Campaign is that they will have [...] New Orleans Once one gets past the ideological opposition some have towards eligible citizens gaining full access to all of the income supports available, we are still faced with the cost of infrastructure and the capacity to enroll the vast numbers who are unserved. In my book, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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