Saket Soni and the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice have beaten the drum in the more than four years since Hurricane Katrina about the abuses to south Asian guest workers pulled into the shipyards during the desperate labor supplies after the storm. Lawsuits against Signal International now coming to light reveal clearly the …
Month: February 2010
500,000+ Flee Mortgages in 2008
New Orleans I have taken some heat for recommending that homeowners who are underwater walk away from their mortgage obligations in the face of totally, and now admittedly, inept response to the foreclosure crisis by the Obama Administration all facilitated by the total greenwash of the banks by Treasury Secretary Geithner. It seems according to …
Small Scotia Steps on Remittances
New Orleans Handling remittances from working immigrant families is such a lucrative business that progress is measured in very small steps. We were delighted to take one with Scotia Bank when they announced in Toronto that they were lowering costs for remittances from their account holders using a combination of their online access and a …