Buenos Aires The other day a friend send an article by that I opened skeptically. Usually articles about how much union members pay their elected leaders tend to be written with such a wickedly, right wing slant that it makes your hair hurt to even read the screed. But this piece ran earlier in the …
Month: August 2007
Persianas
Buenos Aires There are some unique features of individual communities as they adapt to their individual environments. I find these things fascinating when I travel, and sometimes wonder why they have not caught on in the wider world. The problem reminds me of evolutionary progress in isolated spaces that takes time to spread from the …
Laws that Work for Labor
Buenos Aires Hardly five blocks from the ACORN Argentina office on Moreno are a couple of multi-story buildings that house FAECYS, the Federacion Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios, essentially the union of commerce and service workers. With 800,000 members nearly, FAECYS is perhaps the largest union in the largest federation of workers in …