Wage-ship Down New Orleans Everywhere you go it’s nothing but stories of doom and gloom. This recession is flat out bad. A report detailed the extensive efforts by companies around the USA in actually lowering wages by 10-15% across the board marking a trend not seen since the Great Depression. Part of the …
Month: January 2009
Toxic Dump or National Bank
Toxic Dump or National Bank New Orleans Shelia Bair from the FDIC, one of the few government finance people who has not been permanently tarnished by the financial meltdown, and others on the eve of the Inaugural are starting to talk without fear about whether or not there is a “real” plan or solution …
Living Wages in Japan
Living Wages in Japan New Orleans We had a very interesting visit with labor researchers and professors from Japan about the prospects for a living wage movement in their country and the lessons we had learned, particularly in New Orleans from the joint labor and community campaigns here. In the complicated translations it seems …