London In an oft-handed conversation with the equivalent of a high school civics teacher, I got a quick course in so-called English school reform which was every bit as scary as the charter school movement in the United States though different in some interesting ways as well. The bottom line is that over the last …
Month: February 2014
IRS Tax Exemption Hullabaloo
London A record number of comments, 23,000 and counting, have now been filed with the Internal Revenue Service, over proposed new rules affecting tax exempt nonprofits, particularly organizations with a c4 status, but even potentially c5’s which are labor unions and c6’s which are trade associations. When you hear IRS and tax exemptions, the first …
UAW Lesson: It Takes a Village to Win a Union Election
New Orleans Ok, I was dead wrong. I called the union election for the UAW at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a solid victory for the union, and I could hardly wait to see whether or not this opened up important organizing throughout the South. Surprisingly, and tragically, when the votes were counted, …