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Organizing Plans with News from Walmart, Facebook, Spain, and Florida Voting Suppression

Meeting of the Latin American organizers

Mexico City    The annual meeting of the ACORN International board continued its meetings for a second day in Mexico City, as they conferred on fundamental issues of support for existing work, self-sufficiency and support and expansion into new areas like Sicily and Liberia.  Additional reports were heard from Mexico on [...]

The Rarity of Labor Union Strikes in Today’s Economy and Labor Market and Lost Hope at NLRB

New Orleans   In Social Policy magazine we’ve published in the current issue a solid description of the ups and downs of a group of nursing home workers in Connecticut.    The piece focused on the lessons learned in the course of a strike that the workers and the union felt was successful.  We also published in [...]

Is Hillary Clinton Heading to Kolkata for Walmart or the USA?

Mamata 'Didi' Banerjee

New Orleans  Secretary of State Hilary after her controversial, chaotic visit to China is stopping by India for 3 days on the way back to the United States.  For undisclosed reasons she is going to visit Kolkata on Monday and its new Chief Minister in West Bengal Didi Banjeree, who displaced the [...]

Who Wants to Bet that Walmart’s Bribery Policy Was Not in Play in India and China?

New Orleans  It still doesn’t mean that Walmart won’t walk away scot-free from its $24 million Mexican bribery scandal (and who knows how much more might have been spent in other countries like India?), but at least some directors may lose their soft perches and have their hands pried loose from the rubberstamps they have [...]

Pension Funds Demanding Walmart Board Step Down over Mexican Bribery

Walmart Protest in New York City

New Orleans   Walmart annual board meetings are legendary dog-and-pony shows with literally thousands traipsing to Bentonville for a Roman circus of entertainment and company spectacle.  This meeting next month may have a sharper edge that not even a packed room of handpicked “associates” can stifle.  It will be impossible [...]

Are Walmart Executives Being Let Off the Hook Already?

New Orleans   $24 million in bribes is not a onetime thing, a rounding error, or a mistake in judgment.  It is evidence of company policy and a corporate culture.  Walmart has proven that it is trying to buy its way into the Mexican marketplace one bribe at a time, many stores at a time.

James Stewart, a [...]