SEC Makes Shareholder “Democracy” Just for the Big Boys

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09242020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock      Corporate chieftains’ claims that there is even such a thing as shareholder democracy has always been akin to an edict pronounced at a North Korean military parade to the assembled masses.  The notion that the little shareholder has a voice in corporate governance is …

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Labor Department Gets on its Knees for Gig and Other Companies

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09232020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville       If the current administration remains in office in 2021, don’t be surprised if they float a proposal to move the Labor Department over to the Commerce Department as one of its smaller divisions.  These days with every new proposed rule they seem to see their mission …

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DOL Takes Paid Leave Away from Low Wage Healthcare Workers

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09222020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     This is complicated, so hang with me, but here is what you need to know. Nursing home workers and other frontline healthcare providers like home health aides, and community home workers for the differently able account for perhaps the largest portion of the death …

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