Dallas Having represented subcontracted laborers on the back of City of Dallas for the last two years, United Labor Unions Local 100 has been at wits ends trying to prevent a slashing of the wages back down to the federal minimum in the City’s newly bid contract. We have had our champions on the Council, …
Month: July 2010
Slim & None for Immigration Reform
Dallas Organizers involved in immigration reform were talking throughout the week about what strategy and tactics they could devise to have a chance to win real reform in 2010. It’s probably the wrong question and with any frankness no one would like the answer since the odds are so improbable for any real reform in …
Keeping Devils out of Details: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
New Orleans The bill was passed and in the “instant” history it looks big, so let’s be positive about all of this. There are some good things in the mess, even as other issues went unaddressed or were silenced (like putting Community Reinvestment under the new CFP Bureau!). Non-banks which escaped CRA requirements and virtually …