New Orleans One disclosure after another leads the news disclosing the bad behavior of banks, servicers, and others in the foreclosure racket, but often to the victim it seems like little more than water hitting the rocks whose impact none of us will survive to see. In recent weeks close reading of major papers would …
Author: wade
NLRB Bulletin Boards: E for Effort, F for Results
New Orleans The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a rule that would require companies to post on their bulletin boards a notice informing workers that they have the legal right to organize. Conservatives, strong adherents of a philosophical belief in “total war” when it comes to class issues, are crying like …
Farm Workers in a Box
Orange Beach It’s not a happy experience reading Miriam Pawel’s book on the United Farm Workers Union, The Union of their Dreams, but for those of us in the work, it’s worth the climb no matter how unsettling the view. I reached out for her through Google triangulation in order to seek permission to excerpt …