New Orleans It’s easy to lose touch when I’ve been on the road and out of the country too much, but sadly sometimes it’s just deja vu all over again. For years one of the hot buttons in the labor movement was the so-called tragic civil war in California within the ranks of healthcare unions …
Month: November 2015
A Demand for Old School Union Reps: Arbitrations!
New Orleans The New York Times has run a three-part series on the galloping trend of corporations, both large and small, overtly or slyly forcing consumers and even non-union workers to agree to arbitration procedures that block their access to courts and to joining with others in class action litigation on larger concerns. The stories …
Moral Markets and Predatory Lending
New Orleans Nothing like ten or more hours on an airplane to get some reading done. Reading Evan Osnos award winning book on modern China, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in New China, was interesting, especially having read earlier versions of some of the chapters in The New Yorker. He told one …